Under a new Department of Veterans Affairs program, veterans with chronic health conditions can receive telemedicine health care services at home.
Thanks to technology, and the free program called Care Coordination Home Telehealth, veterans with landline telephone service can have telemonitors installed in their homes and can send medical reading through a computer or phone line to care coordinators at a remote facility. For now, veterans with only cell-phone service are ineligible, but VA official say that they expect that to change in the near future.
The program boasts over 5,000 enrolees nationally.
