Telemedicine expanding at Veterans Health Administration

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Medical house calls largely disappeared sometime in the 1960s. Now they’re making a comeback, only virtually, thanks to 21st-Century technology. At the Veterans Health Administration, telemedicine has been a major project and now it’s expanding. Dr. Neil Evans, chief of the Office of Connected Care at the VHA, joined  Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the latest.

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