1 Clinical Trials for Various Conditions
On October 1, 2016, the VHA Office of Telehealth and the Connected Health Office will merge to create a single entity that will be responsible for the implementation and evaluation of eHealth technologies across the healthcare system. In an effort to successfully fulfill its mission, the new combined Connected Health/Telehealth Office is pledging $1,100,000 for an eHealth Partnered Evaluation Initiative (PEI) to support the further implementation of eHealth technologies across VHA, and to measure their impacts on dimensions of access and other outcomes. Developed in close consultation with leadership of the new office, the proposed objectives of the eHealth PEI are to (1) implement a patient-level "supported adoption intervention" for secure messaging and evaluate the impact of secure messaging use through a rapid, one-year randomized trial; and (2) evaluate the initial rollout of VHA's automated telehealth text messaging system to Veterans and clinical team members.