Military Health System Virtual Health Program (MHS VHP)
Abstract
Purpose: Establish a unified MHS program to augment military medicine with robust ‘anywhere’ virtual health capabilities. The program will include three distinct capabilities in order to meet its initial expected business outcome. The first capability will incorporate secure clinical VTC (synchronous visits) to enable a provider in one location to offer diagnosis and treatment to a patient in another location. Synchronous visits can take place between a provider and patient at different MTFs, or at the patient’s location (e.g. their home or other location deemed appropriate by the provider). Synchronous visits at the patient’s location can be conducted for primary or specialty care. Primary and Specialty Care appointments via synchronous visits will enable health care anytime, anywhere. The second capability incorporates an Asynchronous secure portal or teleconsultation portal, to enable a pool of specialty care providers globally to deliver timely clinical advice, primarily in operational settings where expertise is scarce, but also in garrison when needed. The portal facilitates ‘store and forward’ transmission of electronic medical information and associated digital images between health care providers. Specialty clinicians provide expert advice and guidance to the patient’s attending physicians, assisting them in the disposition or local treatment options. The third capability is remote health monitoring, to collect, track, and transmit biometric data from the patient via a secure portal to an MTF. The data is accessed by a care coordinator or health care provider at the MTF to provide real-time medical interventions that can improve a patient’s health and quality of life.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 505_0605013DHA_2_0130_PB_2022
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