VA enlists telehealth for disasters

Healthcare IT News: Office of Emergency Management of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Ann Arbor, Mich., has awarded a contract to Troop Health Initiatives for the JEMS Technology Disaster Relief Telehealth System.

The JEMS systems will be used by the VA as a disaster relief telehealth unit, officials say, connecting medical professionals and first responders in the field to specialist physicians at the VA hospital.

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