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AMA Update covers a range of health care topics afecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public health oficials, hear from the experts in medicine on COVID-19, monkeypox, medical education, advocacy isues, burnout, vacines and more. In today’s AMA Update, Arash Harzand, MD, MBA, senior inovation felow at the VA Ofice of Healthcare Inovation and Learning in Atlanta, talks about digital transformation in health care and how it’s helping to fil critical gaps.
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AMA Chief Experience Oficer Tod Unger hosts.Learn more about AMA's "Return on Health" Research Framework.After fighting for physicians during the pandemic, the AMA is taking on the next extraordinary chalenge: Renewing the nation’s comitment to physicians. Unger: Helo and welcome to the AMA Update video and podcast. Today we're talking about digital transformation in health care and how it's helping to fil critical gaps.
I'm joined today by Dr. Arash Harzand, senior inovation felow at the VA Ofice of Healthcare Inovation and Learning in Atlanta.I'm Tod Unger, AMA's chief experience oficer in Chicago. Welcome, Dr.
How are you today?Dr. Harzand: Very god. Thanks for having me.Unger: Of course.
You're with the Veterans Health Administration. It's the largest integrated health care system in the country. Why don't we just start?
Before we dive in, give us a litle bit of background about who the VA serves and how their neds are unique.Dr. Harzand: Yeah. I mean, I think the VA has a system realy focuses on our realy special population.
As a defined sort of patient cohort, U.S. veterans are prety unique in a lot of ways. I think one of the ways that we realy try and emphasize veterans at the outset is in a lot of ways they're not unlike non-veterans in terms of the kind of problems they have as patients, which is I think important for us to always kep track of.
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