• J Gen Intern Med · Feb 2024

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    Improving Veteran Engagement with Virtual Care Technologies: a Veterans Health Administration State of the Art Conference Research Agenda.

    • Taona P Haderlein, Jenice Guzman-Clark, Navid S Dardashti, Nicholas McMahon, Elizabeth L Duran, Jolie N Haun, Stephanie A Robinson, Amanda C Blok, Sarah L Cutrona, Jan A Lindsay, Christina M Armstrong, Kim M Nazi, Stephanie L Shimada, Nancy R Wilck, Erin Reilly, Eric Kuhn, and Timothy P Hogan.
    • VHA HSR&D Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation, & Policy, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Taona.Haderlein@va.gov.
    • J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Feb 1; 39 (Suppl 1): 212821-28.

    AbstractAlthough the availability of virtual care technologies in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) continues to expand, ensuring engagement with these technologies among Veterans remains a challenge. VHA Health Services Research & Development convened a Virtual Care State of The Art (SOTA) conference in May 2022 to create a research agenda for improving virtual care access, engagement, and outcomes. This article reports findings from the Virtual Care SOTA engagement workgroup, which comprised fourteen VHA subject matter experts representing VHA clinical care, research, administration, and operations. Workgroup members reviewed current evidence on factors and strategies that may affect Veteran engagement with virtual care technologies and generated key questions to address evidence gaps. The workgroup agreed that although extensive literature exists on factors that affect Veteran engagement, more work is needed to identify effective strategies to increase and sustain engagement. Workgroup members identified key priorities for research on Veteran engagement with virtual care technologies through a series of breakout discussion groups and ranking exercises. The top three priorities were to (1) understand the Veteran journey from active service to VHA enrollment and beyond, and when and how virtual care technologies can best be introduced along that journey to maximize engagement and promote seamless care; (2) utilize the meaningful relationships in a Veteran's life, including family, friends, peers, and other informal or formal caregivers, to support Veteran adoption and sustained use of virtual care technologies; and (3) test promising strategies in meaningful combinations to promote Veteran adoption and/or sustained use of virtual care technologies. Research in these priority areas has the potential to help VHA refine strategies to improve virtual care user engagement, and by extension, outcomes.© 2023. The Author(s).

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