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Eliminating Management Malpractice
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Also facilitate filling FOIA requests
The V.A. can also help facilitate filling FOIA requests if they tell filling requesters for info the title of documents that may contain the info they are looking for so they can request those documents.
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Dialogue
Also, the double speak must go. We are told that the V.A. is being brought into the 21st century, yet
1. care is not holistic
2. the time allotted patients for appointments is being restricted. Even psych appointments to 30 min. Try evaluating a patient, and work out a change in psych meds including... more »
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Patients would like to be involved
1. Informed consent policy reform. The recent policy against gurney consents is a step in the right direction, but remains insufficient to ensure informed consent.
2. Safe, secure, and comfortable medical and mental health Care for female veterans.
3. establishing a patient driven research program.
There does not seem to be any mechanisms to allow patients... more »
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accountability
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Claims Processing Results
I think VA needs to have a Portal that Veterans could sign into to get copies of VA Rating results and other documents to save money of mailing and also if a Veteran loses a copy. They could log in an get the document and print it from home. The would help with printing cost and postage. Being in the paperless world.
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Make it easier to find how to submit ideas
It took me over 10 minutes to finally discover how to submit a new idea ... and I'm a senior web developer. There should be a link on the front page to submit an idea since this is the main purpose of the site.
There are very few people who will have the endurance to spend this much time to make a suggestion.
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Button Labeling
Once I sign in, that button should change to just 'Share Ideas' or 'Submit Ideas'. It is not intuitive at all.
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VA Hospital Dallas TX
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Building a New VA Medical Center in Texas
These clinics would refer a veteran to the closest VA Hospital for more specialized care and treatments. I retired from the... more »
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Innovation
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Let the doctors practice
My doctor told me that she spends about half her time dealing with setting up labs, prescriptions, etc. for her patients. The computer system either needs to be streamlined or they need to hire some minimum wage type person to deal with that. You could have one person for each primary care "team" and it would free up the doctors to see more patients so we wouldn't have to wait so long for an appointment.
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make it insurance, not dependent on VA doctors
VA care should be more like medicare, where we could go see doctors of our choice. Granted, there are military-specific things that we would need to see a military doctor about, but it would be nice for regular care if I could have something similar to Tricare (especially if I could include spouse & kids for a small additional fee) that I could use with civilian doctors.
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VA Hiring Process
An online portal that allows prospective employees to track their application as it moves through the hiring process would be helpful