National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR)
Adam Darkins, M.D.
Adam Darkins leads the National Telehealth Programs for US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Successful implementation of Telehealth within VA involves the use of health Informatics, telehealth and disease management technologies to enhance and extend care and case management.
VA’s is seen as a national/international leader in telehealth with over 480,000 patients receiving care annually via 1.4 million episodes of care. There are over 4,500 clinical videoconferencing end points providing telehealth services on VA’s dedicated clinical enterprise videoconferencing network (CEVN) that links 150 VA Medical Centers and over 380 community based outpatient clinics. CEVN provides care to 148,000 patients annually, 75,000 of whom have mental health conditions.
Each year 270,000 patients are screened for diabetic eye disease, and 29,000 for dermatology conditions via store-and-forward technologies and the same information technology platform provides consultations dermatology. On any given day 83,000 Veteran patients are using home telehealth technologies that enable them to live independently at home.
Adam Darkins has worked in health services development, transitioning care from hospitals into home and community settings, and implementing enterprise information technology systems in the US and UK since 1991. He has a previous clinical background in neurosurgery.
Financial/Nonfinancial Relationships: Dr. Adam Darkins has no relevant financial or nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
