Mobile health applications for veterans affairs care and treatment

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DESCRIPTION OF APP

PATIENT

Veteran Appointment Request (VAR)

Permits patients to solicit mental healthcare and primary care services at veteran affairs centers where they are already care recipients, in addition to scheduling and canceling appointments for primary care services via the app, directly

Veterans

Annie App for Clinicians

It enables healthcare workers to allocate patient protocols and facilitate their self-care, encouraging them to trace and provide health data. Furthermore, it facilitates the creation of academic and motivational messages promoting patient wellbeing.

Veterans

Annie App for Veterans

An SMS messaging app supporting VA-enrollee self-care.

Veterans

Antibiogram

Assists healthcare workers in considering local trends of resistance during the determination of empiric antimicrobial treatment. The app helps make informed decisions regarding the antibiotics to administer to patients if pathogens are yet to be isolated or pathogen resistance trends ascertained

Veterans

Ask a Pharmacist

Facilitates access to information regarding Veteran Affairs (VA) drugstores and medicines. Knowledge of data validity and trustworthiness is an added feature.

Veterans

Caring4Women Veterans

Contains valuable facts for non-VA or VA healthcare team personnel to aid in serving female veterans' unique physiological and psychological demands.

Female Veterans

CBT-i Coach

Targeted at individuals suffering from sleep issues and used as an accompaniment to CBT-i) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia treatment managed by a health professional.

Veterans, Other patient populations

Concussion Coach

Aimed at patients exhibiting mild or mediocre trauma-related brain injury or concussion symptoms. The App may be utilized by itself. However, combining professional therapy with it may prove more valuable.

Current and former military personnel, Other patients suffering identical symptoms

CPT Coach

Aimed at PTSD patients being administered CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy) by a mental healthcare professional who desire to utilize some CPT App to supplement their treatment.

Current and former military personnel, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) patients

DS (Department of Defense Self-Service) Logon Education

A secure defense department-created login ID for increasing security levels for the users of different defense department and Veteran Affairs websites.

Veterans

Exposure Ed

Providers may utilize this app for conducting informed dialog with ex-servicemen regarding their respective exposure-connected concerns and likely health effects (The app is not designed for diagnostic use).

Veterans

Image Viewing Solution (IVS)

Enables VA healthcare providers and related personnel to look for, and at, patient radiology pictures, x-rays, and other similar imagery stored within VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) Imaging.

Veterans

Immunization Campaign

Offers VA professionals documents of and data regarding patients' flu inoculations. It enables analyses and documenting of inoculations on the job, besides simplifying the multi-patient shot administration procedure within a short duration in the course of immunization drives.

Veterans

Mindfulness Coach

Targeted at aiding others in learning to be attentive. It may be independently utilized for supplementing direct professional patient care or by individuals who enjoy mindfulness tools.

Current and former military personnel, Others

Mobile Blue Button

Facilitates self-management of personal healthcare requirements and communication with healthcare team members. Enables safe, convenient and dependable information access, downloading, printing and storage from VA EHRs (Electronic Health Records).

Veterans

Mobile Kidney

A simple means of monitoring individual kidney health facts, acquiring additional knowledge of personal kidney health status and other illness-related subjects. Further, it enables users to input, inspect and monitor personal information for self-health-monitoring and information-sharing with VA healthcare team members.

Veterans, Others

Move Coach

This is an app targeted at individuals desiring to shed a few pounds. A user-friendly nineteen-week initiative guides users to successful weight loss via education and applicable tools. Participants may supervise, trace and obtain feedback on their individual progress with regard to diet, exercise and weight goals.

Current and former military personnel, family members and others

Moving Forward

It provides access to on-the-move tools and helps acquire problem-solving abilities for managing stress and surmounting barriers. Facilitates management of challenges like: going back to the life of a civilian, balancing family and educational life, relationship issues, monetary issues, tricky career-related choices, and managing physiological injuries. It can be availed of separately or together with a web-based 'Moving Forward' course offered free of cost.

Current and former military personnel or anybody with stress issues

My VA Health

Permits access to official individual VA health record and health information entry. Users can record and store contact details, armed forces and medical history, health targets, and moods, besides creating entries on various health-related subjects. Further, users may be able to set reminders regarding appointments or create novel health entries for remembering to trace their health.

Veterans

Parenting2Go

Aimed at offering handy tools that reinforce parenting capabilities and facilitate reconnection with kids. This App deals with universal parenting-related challenges and encompasses guidance on handling common parenting scenarios, besides those that are unique for an armed forces household. It may be utilized independently or combined with a web-based, free-of-cost course titled 'Parenting for Service Members & Veterans'.

Veteran Parents, Families

Patient Viewer

Permits users to swiftly glean facts from client EHRs using a smartphone. Aids in acquiring a comprehensive grasp of client health and provides quick EHR information access in VA centers as well as on the move.

Veterans

PE Coach

Intended for use during PE (Prolonged Exposure) treatment, for PTSD patients, administered by a behavioral healthcare provider. It offers tools for aiding patient-therapist collaboration in the PE therapeutic process, for processing their trauma experience and decreasing fear and anxiety.

Current and former military personnel, Others

PFA Mobile

Geared at aiding PFA (psychological first aid) responders working under organized response interventions after a crisis or catastrophe.

All patients

Preconception Care

Offers information to non-VA or VA healthcare team members for supporting preconception care incorporation into holistic primary care, thus optimizing reproductive-age ex-servicewomen's health. This app offers a convenient, lone provider-focused resource access point dealing with various factors like reproductive history, birth control utilization, health status, immunizations administered, lifestyle factors, and genetic and familial risk factors and history.

Veterans

PTSD Coach

Delivers easily accessible tools for tackling stress and PTSD-connected symptoms, in addition to supporting with self-evaluations, educational content, coping abilities for stress management and monitoring, and symptom-tracking competences.

Current and former military personnel

REVAMP (Remote Veterans Apnea Management Platform) App for Clinicians

Sleep clinicians can establish client accounts, schedule them for the purpose of sleep testing, key in client outcomes, analyze client PAP (Positive Airway Pressure) machine information, arrange meetings, allocate questionnaires, communicate with clients, and compose notes on progress. Authorized users can compose and manage sleep apnea-related educational content and automated communications targeted at patients.

Veterans

REVAMP App for Veterans

Combined with a PAP (Positive Airway Pressure) machine, this app aids ex-service personnel and sleep care members trace sleep-related information. The app can help glean troubleshooting support and knowledge regarding sleep apnea, in addition to comprehensive questionnaires dealing with individual sleep health. Moreover, an in-built message system enables secure information interchange between patients and sleep care members.

Veterans

Safe Patient Handling

Offers evidence-based SPHM (Safe Patient Handling and Mobility) methods for assisting in providing the most secure possible patient care. It provides a range of tools and knowledge for avoiding patient and provider injury by integrating patient evaluations, algorithms, scoring tools, training videos, peer leader activity worksheets, and equipment guidebooks.

All patients

Scheduling Manager

This App facilitates VA schedulers' receipt and booking of appointment requests made via the VAR (Veteran Appointment Request) app by clients and secure message forwarding to VAR App users.

Veterans

Stay Quit Coach

Aids PTSD patients in quitting smoking. Users are aided in formulating a customized plan which considers their personal motives to quit. It offers interactive tools aiding users in tackling the urge to smoke, information relating to smoking, giving up smoking, and support contacts and motivational messages helping users remain smoke-free.

Veterans

Summary of Care

This App allows VA enrollees obtain and view VA medical data using a smartphone, in one single place.

Veterans

VA Launchpad for Care Teams

This stores every app linked to the VA EHR and accessing secure patient information. It is time-efficient and assists in better integrating mobile VA apps into personnel workflow by assembling every mobile VA app which needs user login using VistA credentials.

Veterans

VA Launchpad for Veterans

This stores every app linked to the VA EHR and accessing secure patient information. The tool combines mobile VA apps needing secure logins for accessing veteran EHRs.

Veterans

VA Pressure Ulcer Resource (VA PUR)

This is a user-friendly app which helps avoid, trace and understand pressure injuries or ulcers. Further, it offers access to additional valuable resources to aid in managing everyday care.

Veterans

VA Video Connect

Links ex-service personnel and providers through encrypted video. Veterans can look at and speak to healthcare providers anywhere, increasing the ease of making appointments and decreasing wait and traveling times.

Veterans