VA Innovations

This app is unique in the mobile health market and is the only VA-developed app for pressure ulcer prevention with tools for both Veterans and their caregivers.

VA’s HOME Program was created to help patients – especially those who live in rural areas – access mental health care after they transition from inpatient psychiatric care and re-enter their community.

Afghanistan Veteran, Daniel Glanz, has a brand new prosthetic hand, an iLimb Quantum, with functions that are programmable with a smartphone app and can change functions with a simple gesture.

Kerry Haynes, mental health chaplain and Gold Star Fellow at South Texas VA health Care System, created the Chaplain Groups for Veterans with Moral Injury to bring peace of mind and soul to Veterans suffering from a wounding of the conscience, whether from their own involvement or the action of someone in authority over them.

We are changing the way we do business so Veterans choose VA not because they have no other choice, but because we are the best at what we do, achieve superior results and make a difference in the lives of Veterans and their families.

“The LUKE arm is a shining example of why VA exists,” Secretary Shulkin said. “There is no commercial market for this type of technology...This is why VA and its research efforts – efforts that could not be replicated in the private sector – are so important.”

Unlike less-advanced prosthetics, the entire LUKE arm can move as one unit, reducing the labor-intensive process of controlling one joint at a time.

A Boston VA Health Care System employee saw an opportunity to improve reaction time to opioid overdoses, by training nearly 700 Veterans, staff members and VA Police to administer Narcan.

The second annual “Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion” event hosted by VA marked a moment on the calendar when partners from private industry, academia and government, all of whom are seeking to affect change in Veteran care and brain health, come together to discuss important policy decisions, propose new ideas, and share stories that inspire us.

The annual event assembled more than 350 participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of TBI and concussion.

VA is hosting its second annual Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, which kicked off today at Harvard University.

Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion is designed to foster debate, as well as facilitate national, partnership-based solutions in the general area of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and head trauma.