{"id":7362,"date":"2018-03-06T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7362"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:24:11","slug":"va-launches-telehealth-for-rural-ptsd-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7362","title":{"rendered":"VA launches Telehealth for rural PTSD veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p>The US Department of Veterans Affairs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/opa\/pressrel\/pressrelease.cfm?id=4018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> today that it is launching a pilot Telehealth program which will provide rural Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remote access to psychotherapy and related services.&nbsp; The program Telemedicine Outreach for PTSD (TOP) will deliver therapy through phone and interactive video contact.&nbsp; It is being developed through the VA&#39;s Office of Rural Health in partnership with the VA&#39;s Quality Enhancement Research Initiative.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Leading the project is VA Puget Sound Health Scare System of Seattle Washington&#39;s Dr. John Fortney a research health scientist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>There are more than 500 rural Veterans not receiving PTSD speciality care that now have enrolled in the study.&nbsp; The study will include frequent phone calls from a care manager who will manage and coordinate their interactive video access to off-site psychiatrists and psychologists.&nbsp; The interactive video sessions will be from VA medical centers to community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC) or the Veteran&#39;s hom.&nbsp; 12 CBOC&#39;s will be included in the program from&nbsp;Charleston, South Carolina; Iowa City, Iowa; Little Rock, Arkansas; Denver, Colorado; San Diego, California; and Seattle.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"1","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"2","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"3","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"2","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practices","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7838,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions\/7838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}