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To better understand the challenges rural veterans face, Philips, the Department of Veterans Affairs, VFW and The American Legion didn’t just create ideas for veterans, we partnered with them to create custom solutions that work. This is Project ATLAS. We’re enabling healthcare access in remote areas across the US so that all veterans can get the care they deserve.
Take a look at this video with veterans in Pennsylvania, California, and Montana, where we worked together to understand their healthcare challenges.
Solving the issue of access to care for our nation’s veterans is something that will take collaboration across the public and private sector, but if we can work with these forward thinking VSOs to leverage telehealth solutions and move care closer to home,
we can give our nation’s veterans access to the care they so richly deserve."
Vitor RochaChief Market Leader of Philips North America
Solving the issue of access to care for our nation’s veterans is something that will take collaboration across the public and private sector, but if we can work with these forward thinking VSOs to leverage telehealth solutions and move care closer to home, we can give our nation’s veterans access to the care they so richly deserve."
Vitor Rocha,Chief Market Leader of Philips North America
Sources:
1. Veterans Health Administration. About VHA. https://www.va.gov/health/aboutvha.asp
2. Military Health System. Beneficiary Population Statistics. https://www.health.mil/I-Am-A/Media/Media-Center/Patient-Population-Statistics
3. VA Office of Rural Health. Rural Veterans. https://www.ruralhealth.va.gov/aboutus/ruralvets.asp
4. VA Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs. VA exceeds 1 million video telehealth visits in FY2018 [Press Release]. https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5196
5. Resources and Capabilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Provide Timely and Accessible Care to Veterans. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2015. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1165z2.html