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VASDHS is one of the Most Wired health networks
Telemedicine is one of the many reasons why the entire Department was named to the 2013 ‘Most Wired’ hospitals list.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), representing 151 VA medical centers, including VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS) was recently named to the 2013 “Most Wired” hospitals list. The list, which is released by Hospitals & Health Networks, in partnership with McKesson, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the American Hospital Association (AHA), is the result of a national survey aimed at ranking hospitals which are leveraging health information technology (HIT) in new and innovative ways.
Local clinical information technology accomplishments include:
- Provide telemedicine for more than 1,500 patients
- Veterans accessing online health information through eBenefits and My HealtheVet: > 51,880
- Veterans using email (secure messaging to communicate with their health care provider): > 14,000
- San Diego VA was the first government medical facility to share medical records electronically with a private health care system (Kaiser Permanente) in 2010
- San Diego VA has had an electronic medical records system in place since 1985
- San Diego VA is the pilot site for the development of the next generation of our electronic medical record
- San Diego VA is a founding member of the San Diego Regional Healthcare Information Exchange
