| What You Should Know About 'My Health-e Vet' |
| [6/27/2010] |
Source: Department of Veterans Affairs |
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My HealtheVet is VA’s award–winning e–health website, which offers Veterans, active duty Soldiers, their dependents and caregivers anywhere, anytime Internet access to VA health care information and services.
Launched nationwide in 2003, My HealtheVet is a free, online Personal Health Record that empowers Veterans to become informed partners in their health care. With My HealtheVet, America’s Veterans can access trusted, secure, and current health and benefits information as well as record and store important health and military history information at their convenience. Registering and using My HealtheVet is easy and it's free!
With My HealtheVet, one can access:
- Nine (9) Healthy Living Centers
- Disease + Conditions Centers
- Mental Health Information
- Trusted Health/Medical Information
- Info on VA Benefits & Services
- Local VA Events & Activities
- Personal Health Journals
- Vitals Tracking & Graphing
- Military Health History
- Activity/Food Journals
In addition, Veterans who receive their healthcare at a VA facility receive additional features, like online refill of VA medications any time, any where – as long as there is access to the Internet!
Veterans who receive care at a VA facility should ask about In–Person Authentication or "IPA". IPA is a process used as an additional safety and security measure to verify a My HealtheVet user’s identity.
Registered My HealtheVet users who are VA patients and have completed the IPA process will be able to view the names of their VA prescriptions, access their personal VA Wellness Reminders, and communicate with their providers through Secure Messaging as that benefit is delivered to each facility.
After this one–time IPA process is complete, Veterans will have full access to their online Personal Health Record as it becomes available. Not only will they be able to refill their VA medications by name and view their VA Wellness Reminders, in the future they will be able to:
- Communicate electronically with participating VA health care providers through Secure Messaging (coming to local facilities throughout 2009 and 2010)
- Get VA Appointment Reminders and view VA Appointments (coming in 2010)
- View VA lab results (coming 2010)
All are urged to join hundreds of thousands of enrollees already taking charge of their day to day health care by logging on to My HealtheVet.
It is about My Health, My Care: 24/7 Online Access to VA Health Care and Services.
Take charge of your health and log on today: www.myhealth.va.gov.
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