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About 41 percent, or 3.3 million, veterans enrolled in the Veterans Affairs Department health system live far from a VA hospital, so last week the department added another 20 vehicles to its fleet of 50 mobile vet centers packed with sophisticated communications gear to bring medical care and other services to rural veterans.
Mobile health centers deliver medical care to rural veterans
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Each mobile vet center typically downlinks data at the rate of 2 megabits per second and uplinks data at the rate of between 4 and 5 megabits per second. The satellite signal feeds into a 16-port router as well as a secure Wi-Fi system, which can support up to 256 users. The vans also are stuffed with videoconferencing equipment to support remote consultations, Davis said.
The mobile vet centers have enough bandwidth to support downloads of medical imagery data such as X-Rays from the VistA imaging system, Davis said. This month, VA started to deploy mammography systems in the centers, which will transmit breast X-rays into health records.
Batres said VA also uses the mobile centers for on-site counseling, with each featuring an enclosed space for privacy.
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