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How Can VA Expand Best Practices in Cancer Care?

Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health, for Quality, Safety, and Value Shereef M. Elnahal, MD, MBA, on the Diffusion of Excellence program he is currently leading.


 

What are the clinical best practices and how can the VA expand these specialty care innovations and patient care advances across the entire health care system? To understand the progress being made by the VA, Federal Practitioner sat down with Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health, for Quality, Safety, and Value Shereef M. Elnahal, MD, MBA, at the Launch Pad: Pathways to Cancer Innovation summit to discuss the Diffusion of Excellence program he is currently leading.

Dr. Elnahal discusses the development of virtual tumor, clinical pharmacy specialists, and the more than 400 other programs under consideration as well as the many programs already being replicated across multiple sites.

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