The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pharmacy Benefits Management Strategic Health Care Group is embarking on a $1 million medication safety project and starting to examine how pharmacists can assist the department's tele-health initiative, disclosed Michael A. Valentino, the newly appointed chief...
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Over the period 1999 to 2002, inpatient bed-days declined steadily, and the number of outpatient visits increased. Outpatient pharmacy spending increased by nearly 19 percent per year, whereas spending for inpatient, residential, and outpatient nonpharmacy services...
The surviving spouses or children of a veteran who passed away with a permanent or total disability rating may be eligible for health care through the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) program. ...
Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) satisfaction in helping patients with mental health disorders improve their lives. Topics covered include clinical pharmacy specialist (CPS) Cynthia A. Gutierrez's outpatient work on cases of depression, psychotic and bipolar disorders, and other conditions, CPS ...
The project uses RxNorm, UMLS, and SNOMED CT terminology standards to mediate codified pharmacy and allergy data with greater than 92 and 60 percent success rates respectively. Implementation of the project has been well received by users and is being expanded to multiple joint care sites. Stable...
Focuses on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system as a model of national health care. Single-payer system; Facilities; Long-term care programs; Integration of acute and chronic care; Hospital-based home care teams; Adopting VA features....
Pharmacy Data in the VA Health Care System Recent advances in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care data systems have greatly increased access to operational pharmacy information. This art... MW Smith,GJ Joseph - 《Medical Care Research & Review Mcrr》 被引量: 153发表: 2003年 Healt...
In 2015, the VA allocated $696 million for new HCV drugs, which was 17% of the VA’s total pharmacy budget. In 2016, the VA anticipates spending approximately $1 billion on HCV drugs. According to the release, over 76,000 veterans with HCV have been treated to ...
The chairmen of the congressional veterans affairs committees are working quickly to get the bill passed before Congress' summer recess Jul 28, 2014 Congressional negotiators agree on VA reform: What will they fix? On the eve of their five-week summer recess, House and Senate Veterans Affairs ...
In addition to the delay, The Spokesman-Reviewreportedon Thursday that the VA “confirmed it was aware of the death in late September of a patient at the VA clinic in Columbus, Ohio” that was attributed by the facility’s assistant chief of pharmacy ...