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News | June 6, 2023

Virtual Medical Center awarded for ground-breaking technologies

By Lori Newman

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas  –   The Virtual Medical Center at Brooke Army Medical Center will be recognized for four groundbreaking programs at the 2023 FORUM Information Technology Innovation Awards, June 7 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

FORUM, a resource for senior government and industry executives within the federal contracting community, is a consolidated news source for information related to Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Defense Health Agency, and other agencies involved with federal health.

The VMC will receive awards for their Continuous Remote Patient Monitoring, Hypertension Electronic Assisted Remote Tracking (HEART) Obstetrics, Advanced Virtual Support for Operational Forces or ADVISOR, and Virtually Integrated Patient Readiness Remote (VIPRR) Clinic.

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