VA Assists Rural Vets with Telehealth Clinics

...Patricia Ryan, Associate Chief Consultant for the VA Office of Telehealth, said more than 200,000 Veterans like Kenneth Winn have now used its clinic-based Telehealth services. She said another 51,000 patients nationwide are enrolled in VA's Home Telehealth program.

"With Telehealth, our Veterans can connect with VA specialists in mental health, cardiology, dermatology, gastroenterology, rheumatology and urology," Ryan said. "This is important, because a large percentage of our rural Veterans are advancing in age. They have chronic health conditions that require constant monitoring. If it wasn't for Telehealth, we'd be hard pressed to deliver the kind of day-to-day observation they require. "Not everyone has a cardiologist nearby," she added. "With Telehealth, they do."...