{"id":245443,"date":"2011-04-24T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/va-awards-1-38-billion-in-telehealth-contracts\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T15:42:46","slug":"va-awards-1-38-billion-in-telehealth-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/pathology\/va-awards-1-38-billion-in-telehealth-contracts.php","title":{"rendered":"VA awards $1.38 billion in telehealth contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of FierceMobileHealthcare<\/a>:<\/p>

The Department of Veterans Affairs this week awarded contracts to six IT vendors to run its massive (and growing) telehealth program for the next five years. The winners: Authentidate, American Telecare, Cardiocom, HealthHero Network, Visual Telecommunication Network\/ViTelCare, and Viterion TeleHealthcare.<\/p>

The prize: About $1.38 billion in VA telehealth contracts. The individual vendor contracts run anywhere from $150 million to $372 million over the five-year period, VA officials tellFierceMobileHealthcare<\/em>. That total isn't guaranteed, though. Each vendor starts out with a single-year contract, which is renewable in each of the following four years.<\/p>

What's really interesting: The VA's clear leap into telehealth. The smallest of the new contracts--$150 million for Viterion Tele-Healthcare--is just shy of the agency's entire telehealth budget of$163 million last year<\/a>. It is somewhat on trend, though, given that the 2010 budget was a 50 percent jump over 2009 spending.<\/p>

The contracts do cover both traditional video-based telehealth systems, according to Authentidate officials. They also cover sensor-based remote monitoring systems in patient homes.<\/p>

To learn more:
- read Authentidate's press release<\/a>
- check out MobileHealthWatch<\/em>'s coverage<\/a><\/p>

Related Articles:
<\/strong>VA's telehealth budget may double, but strategic questions linger<\/a>
Veterans using mobile devices for follow-up care<\/a>
Telehealth prevents ICU deaths, VA research shows<\/a><\/p>

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