Venturing into the future of Veteran health care

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VA Ventures enables frontline staff to connect with academia, start-ups, and industry to develop solutions

VHA Innovation Ecosystem (VHA IE) and the VA Puget Sound Health Care System (VPSHS) in Seattle, WA are proud to be launching the second VHA IE National Center for Innovation to Impact, VA Ventures. VA Ventures identifies health care challenges, develops solutions, and helps their creators rapidly turn them into commercialized products, changing and saving Veteran lives and ensuring innovations are delivered to VA patients first.

VA Ventures starts where all VA care starts: Veterans and frontline staff. By working directly with Veterans and staff, the center discovers the challenges facing them, enabling VA Ventures to then turn to academia, start-ups, and industry to develop solutions.

VA Ventures focuses on supporting innovation in five key areas:

1. Improving access to care through homecare, telehealth innovations
2. Personalizing health care solutions for each Veteran patient
3. Uncovering new mechanisms for detecting, preventing, and treating disease through large-scale data analysis
4. Building and supporting new ways to manage Veteran care across disciplines
5. Delivering best-in-class care and products to Veterans at lower costs

VA Ventures will lower barriers to innovation by clearly articulating staff and patient needs and rapidly discovering, testing, and implementing solutions. This will accelerate VHA’s mission to deliver exceptional care through the development and implementation of innovative health care solutions, as well as enable focused collaborations between VA clinicians, researchers, innovators, and industry partners.

To learn more about this amazing new effort, you can read the VAntage Point Blog. We are excited to launch this new center and continue to deliver more, together.