The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) conducted more than one million video telehealth visits in fiscal 2018, a system milestone and a 19 percent increase in video telehealth visits over the prior year, officials announced. More than half (582,000) of those video encounters supported veterans located in rural areas, a release said. About 105,300 of those visits were done through the VA's Video Connect application.
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