Verizon and GetWellNetwork work together to enable a top-of-the-line rounding solution for Veterans Affairs clients. GetWell Rounds+ offers engagement solutions that transform care delivery for our nation's heroes. It's an easy-to-use mobile tool for cloud-based digital rounding, reporting and real-time service recovery.

As such, VA providers are able to spend less time processing paper and more time caring for patients; obtain timely data in larger sample sizes than traditional collection processes; and harvest actionable data in real time. Ultimately, Veterans Health Administration leadership can then collect essential information for measuring service excellence, quality management and other Veteran experience priorities.

There are over 200 different data collection use cases within a medical center, including:

• WeCare patient and employee rounding
• Nurse leader rounding
• Leadership rounding
• Joint Commission prep (e.g., safety/EOC audits)
• Hospital-Acquired Infection audits (e.g., hand hygiene, CAUTI and CLABSI)
• Fall prevention audits

“Leave No One Behind.” This is our nation’s soldiers’ mantra on the battlefield — Our veterans deserve that same dedication from American health systems. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is aiming to do just that.  Forty-six percent of veterans live in rural areas where travel to VA facilities or specialist can mean hundreds of miles per trip, not only does this cause physical distress on ailing veterans but can also be a financial hardship.

Iron Bow’s Patient Video Tablet Plus (PVT+) for veterans brings VA healthcare providers to veterans, allowing veterans to take their routine checkups and doctor appointments from the convenience of their own homes.  The solution enables biometric data pairing with the VA’s Video Connect application (VVC) to extend real-time data during video visits. This provides veterans access to healthcare services from a mobile device.  To date more than 16,000 devices have been distributed to veterans with VA’s Video Connect application and full data services provided by Verizon.   

Managing chronic conditions such as diabetes, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), depression or post-traumatic stress disorder can be complex and inconvenient. For some Veterans, conditions like these make independent living difficult.

HMS’ home telehealth solution for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs—featuring strategic partners Verizon and AMC Health
—empowers Veterans to take a more active role that helps manage their health and improve the quality of their lives, all from the comfort of their own homes.

New, easy-to-use devices enabled by Bluetooth technology use home phone lines or cellular connectivity and a sophisticated analytics engine that alerts a Veterans’ Care Coordinator to emerging health issues or concerning trends. This ensures prioritized outreach before small clinical issues become serious problems. Secure connectivity makes it possible to transmit condition-specific information and vital signs (weight, blood pressure, glucose) to VA from home. Using telehealth, Veterans have the opportunity to bolster their independence and get convenient access to health care while addressing resource and financial obstacles.

VA studies have demonstrated the clinical benefits, cost savings, and Veteran and provider satisfaction with Home Telehealth. Together with VA Care Coordinators, HMS helps provide the right treatment in the right place, at the right time.

Philips Respironics, a market leader in CPAP technology for over 30 years, built DreamStation, our most rigorously researched and tested sleep apnea therapy system, to provide unique comfort and compliance features that help veterans adapt to their sleep apnea therapy.

DreamStation was designed to effectively and efficiently coordinate OSA patient treatment across care teams. DreamStation uses Verizon cellular modem technology, allowing physicians and clinicians to monitor their patients’ progress from the critical first 90 days of therapy all the way through long-term adherence. Staying connected to patients is vital to their overall success.

DreamStation has a five-year warranty available on all our DreamStation sleep therapy products when purchased through First Nation Group, FSS, ECAT, MSPV and other authorized procurement channels.

There’s always a way to make life better.