Adoption and Sustained Use of Primary Care Video Visits Among Veterans with VA Video-Enabled Tablets.

Health care access Tablets Telemedicine Veterans Video-based care

Journal

Journal of medical systems
ISSN: 1573-689X
Titre abrégé: J Med Syst
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7806056

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
30 Jan 2024
Historique:
received: 20 07 2023
accepted: 16 01 2024
medline: 30 1 2024
pubmed: 30 1 2024
entrez: 30 1 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

In 2020, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) expanded an initiative to distribute video-enabled tablets to Veterans with limited virtual care access. We examined patient characteristics associated with adoption and sustained use of video-based primary care among Veterans. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of Veterans who received VA-issued tablets between 3/11/2020-9/10/2020. We used generalized linear models to evaluate the sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with video-based primary care adoption (i.e., likelihood of having a primary care video visit) and sustained use (i.e., rate of video care) in the six months after a Veteran received a VA-issued tablet. Of the 36,077 Veterans who received a tablet, 69% had at least one video-based visit within six months, and 24% had a video-based visit in primary care. Veterans with a history of housing instability or a mental health condition, and those meeting VA enrollment criteria for low-income were significantly less likely to adopt video-based primary care. However, among Veterans who had a video visit in primary care (e.g., those with at least one video visit), older Veterans, and Veterans with a mental health condition had more sustained use (higher rate) than younger Veterans or those without a mental health condition. We found no differences in adoption of video-based primary care by rurality, age, race, ethnicity, or low/moderate disability and high disability priority groups compared to Veterans with no special enrollment category. VA's tablet initiative has supported many Veterans with complex needs in accessing primary care by video. While Veterans with certain social and clinical challenges were less likely to have a video visit, those who adopted video telehealth generally had similar or higher rates of sustained use. These patterns suggest opportunities for tailored interventions that focus on needs specific to initial uptake vs. sustained use of video care.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38289373
doi: 10.1007/s10916-024-02035-5
pii: 10.1007/s10916-024-02035-5
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

16

Subventions

Organisme : U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
ID : Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) PEI 18-205
Organisme : U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
ID : Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) PEI 18-205
Organisme : U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
ID : Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) PEI 18-205
Organisme : U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
ID : Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) PEI 18-205

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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Auteurs

Zainub Dhanani (Z)

Department of Health Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, 290 Campus Dr, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. zdhanani@stanford.edu.

Jacqueline M Ferguson (JM)

Center for Innovation to Implementation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

James Van Campen (J)

Center for Innovation to Implementation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA.

Cindie Slightam (C)

Center for Innovation to Implementation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA.

Leonie Heyworth (L)

Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office, Office of Connected Care/Telehealth, Washington, DC, USA.
Department of Medicine, UC San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, USA.

Donna M Zulman (DM)

Center for Innovation to Implementation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

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