Federal News Network: Suicide Prevention — Taking Veteran Care From Good To Great
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has the awesome privilege of delivering care for millions of our country’s Veterans. One of the most serious challenges the VA faces in this mission is Veteran suicide. In order to take Veteran care from good to great, the VA must continue to empower its employees by equipping them with advanced tools capable of providing the right patient information at the precise moment it is needed.
These are the views of our own Dr. David LaBorde, CEO, Iconic Data Inc. and Strategic Advisor at DSS, Inc. Federal News Network recently published his article on the topic.
Dr. LaBorde writes that all too often the knee-jerk reaction to addressing challenges in healthcare is deploying a human-only solution. When caseloads increase, organizations look to simply add more people. But he points out, what about taking steps to enable every employee to work more efficiently?
Software does not have the same limitations as humans. Software doesn’t get distracted or interrupted and is extremely adept at executing repeated actions methodically with near perfection. Because of this, when humans and machines collaborate, this can truly pave the way to high reliability, efficiency and improvements in productivity and outcomes.
Software-enabled suicide prevention care coordination, such as that offered by Suicide Prevention Manager (SPM), is needed and our Veterans deserve it. Suicide prevention coordinators need access to solutions integrated into the VA hospital information systems that are designed specifically for the work these individuals do for our nation’s heroes.
Dr. LaBorde points out that improvements in software applications and data analytics have already allowed the VA to do things in care delivery that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago. It needs to continue to build on these technological improvements and ensure they are deployed at every VA facility. That is how the critical care every Veteran deserves can go from good to great.
Please click here to read the full Federal News Network article. In addition, to learn more about DSS’ Suicide Prevention Manager (SPM) solution, please click here.