Commercial Medical References available through VA: Apps for VA Health Care Employed Professionals that display a lock icon require you to authenticate you are with the VA, by establishing a personal account while on the VA computer network. Register to get started with Skillsoft. This app is not maintained by VA but is included in the national subscriptions purchased and sponsored by the Human Resources Enterprise Center. If you need help with this app, please contact the app's developer: Skillsoft.

Access content across a variety of topics including business, personal development, desktop software and IT. Stay current with courses, videos, books, and audio books from world-class experts. Keep yourself on the leading edge to improve your performance on the job and throughout your career.

Features:

• Access your licensed Skillsoft content from your iPhone or iPad
• Take courses, read books, watch videos, listen to audio books
• Access your favorite videos and audio while offline
• Get personalized suggestions based on your interests
• Utilize our full-text search to find just the right content
• Get notifications for new content and new areas of interest
• Save and manage content as favorites for easy access
• Enjoy the app in English, French, German, and Spanish

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Commercial Medical References available through VA: Apps for VA Health Care Employed Professionals that display a lock icon require you to authenticate you are with the VA, by establishing a personal account while on the VA computer network. Register to get started with Reprotox. This app is not maintained by VA but is included in the national subscriptions purchased and sponsored by the Library Network Office. If you need help with this app, please contact the app's developer: Reprotox.

REPROTOX® is an information system developed by the Reproductive Toxicology Center for its members. REPROTOX contains summaries on the effects of medications, chemicals, infections, and physical agents on pregnancy, reproduction, and development. The REPROTOX® system was developed as an adjunct information source for clinicians, scientists, and government agencies.

Commercial Medical References available through VA: Apps for VA Health Care Employed Professionals that display a lock icon require you to authenticate you are with the VA, by establishing a personal account while on the VA computer network. Register to get started with Natural Medicines. This app is not maintained by VA but is included in the national subscriptions purchased and sponsored by the Library Network Office. If you need help with this app, please contact the app's developer: Therapeutic Research Center.

Natural Medicines Database provides data on herbal products, dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic products, Ayurvedic medicines, complementary alternative medicines, integrative therapies, alternative treatment modalities (e.g., acupuncture), traditional Chinese medicines (fixed combination) products, and other natural remedies. Natural Medicines Database consists of multiple databases and interactive features including the Effectiveness Checker, Nutrient Depletion Checker, Natural Product / Drug Interaction Checker, Natural Medicines Brand Evidence-based Ratings (NMBER®), as well as accredited continuing medical education modules accredited for physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and dietitians.

Find evidence-based Safety and Effectiveness Ratings on any natural ingredient, commercially available product, or alternative treatment modality. Quickly identify potentially harmful drug/herb interactions, check for nutrients within the body that may be depleted by prescription medications, find ingredients with known Effectiveness ratings by condition or disease state, and much more.

The online Database is updated every business day. You get up-to-date reviews and more in the App, without the need for an internet connection.

Features:

• Time-saving, concise recommendations and analyses that help you provide the best patient care.
• The data you need to avoid interactions and other therapeutic problems.
• Answers to questions your patients are likely to ask you.
• Safety and Effectiveness ratings.
• Interaction ratings between drugs and natural medicines; known Adverse Reactions.
• Effectiveness ratings for natural medicines used for medical conditions, and more.
• Answers anytime, anywhere, even without an internet connection.

Commercial Medical References available through VA: Apps for VA Health Care Employed Professionals that display a lock icon require you to authenticate you are with the VA, by establishing a personal account while on the VA computer network. Email Library Network Office to request instructions document. This app is not maintained by VA but is included in the national subscriptions purchased and sponsored by the Library Network Office. If you need help with this app, please contact the app's developer: Wolters Kluwer.

Lexicomp Online for Dentistry (LOD) provides reference information and screening tools to help answer questions on prescribing, diagnosis and treatment. It includes dental-specific pharmacology information on over 8,000 prescription drugs, over the counters (OTCs) and natural products, plus tools like a state-of-the-art lesion diagnosis aid and a drug interactions/drug allergy screener. LOD also includes an interactions screening tool, Medication Safety Check tab which displays a list of drugs from a medication category that aren't likely to interact with a patient's regimen.

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To install/renew your subscription, please click here for device specific installation instructions.

Commercial Medical References available through VA: Apps for VA Health Care Employed Professionals that display a lock icon require you to authenticate you are with the VA, by establishing a personal account while on the VA computer network. Register to get started with ClinicalKey.. This app is not maintained by VA but is included in the national subscriptions purchased and sponsored by the Library Network Office. If you need help with this app, please contact the app's developer: Elsevier.

This clinical search engine includes access to full text books, journals, guidelines and multimedia.

Features:

• Persistent login
• Intuitive search with auto-suggest
• Ability to bookmark and save items
• Access to full-text books, full-text journals, guidelines, multimedia and more

The single app works for Clinical Key or Clinical Key Nursing which are both national subscriptions from the Library Network Office. When you go into the app you select the databases needed by clicking on the hamburger in the upper left corner and then click on Change Edition. You will have the ability to select one of three apps. The login is the same for CK and CKN. Please note that Clinical Pharmacology is not a national VA purchase.

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To maintain your access to ClinicalKey you will need to simply login to ClinicalKey from within the Department of Veterans Affairs computer network.

Commercial Medical References available through VA: Apps for VA Health Care Employed Professionals that display a lock icon require you to authenticate you are with the VA, by establishing a personal account while on the VA computer network. Access your site specific link to set up your BrowZine account.. This app is not maintained by VA but is included in the national subscriptions purchased and sponsored by the Library Network Office. If you need help with this app, please contact the app's developer: Third Iron, LLC.

BrowZine lets you browse, read, save, and monitor scholarly journals in your subject areas from the VA Core Collection and local VA subscriptions on your mobile device or desktop/laptop.

Features

• Browse titles by subject to find journals of interest
• View table of contents of current and past journals
• Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals
• Save articles to EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, RefWorks, Dropbox, and other services
• Share with other researchers by posting to Facebook, Twitter and more

Commercial Medical References available through VA: Apps for VA Health Care Employed Professionals that display a lock icon require you to authenticate you are with the VA, by establishing a personal account while on the VA computer network. Register to get started with UpToDate. This app is not maintained by VA but is included in the national subscriptions purchased and sponsored by the Library Network Office. If you need help with this app, please contact the app's developer: UpToDate, Inc..

UpToDate is a clinical decision support resource with evidence-based clinical information – including drug topics and recommendations that clinicians use at the point of care. UpToDate covers 25 specialties, including internal medicine, psychiatry, infectious disease, and cardiovascular medicine.

Features:

• Persistent login
• Search with auto-completion
• Earn and track free CME/CE/CPD credit
• Bookmarks and history
• Print and email topics or graphics to patients and colleagues
• Options for desktop access and mobile complete for remote use
• Tools that can increase patient safety: clinical calculators, detailed medical graphics and a select set of drug and drug interaction databases powered by Lexicomp

UpToDate Demonstration (Video)

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To maintain your access to UpToDate you will need to simply login to UpToDate from within the Department of Veterans Affairs computer network.

Tip: Not sure if you are logged in to UpToDate? If you do not see your name and CME tally on the top right of the screen, then click Login/Register to login. View how.

If you need assistance contact UpToDate Customer Service , 1-800-998-6374 or +1-781-392-2000.

Commercial Medical References available through VA: Apps for VA Health Care Employed Professionals that display a lock icon require you to authenticate you are with the VA, by establishing a personal account while on the VA computer network. Register to get started with VisualDx. This app is not maintained by VA but is included in the national subscriptions purchased and sponsored by the Library Network Office. If you need help with this app, please contact the app's developer: VisualDx.

VisualDx is a reference tool for diagnostic clinical decision support. Searchable by symptoms, signs, and patient factors, VisualDx is a path to a customized differential diagnosis. The many images and graphics available speed comparison, recognitions and diagnosis. VisualDx is used to validate a diagnosis, access next steps for management and care, and for patient education.

VisualDx combines medical knowledge, standardized terminology, search, and medical images to deliver concise and accurate answers. Search by diagnosis, build a patient-specific differential, or look up drug-induced adverse reactions by medication – all at the point of care. VisualDx Mobile shows disease variation with images.

The national subscription now includes DermExpert which allows a clinician to take a photo of a skin condition and immediately analyze the patient’s skin lesion type to assist in making an accurate diagnosis at the point of care.

Features:

• Quickly search by diagnosis for next steps on management and patient care.
• Visually confirm a diagnosis by comparing medical images to your patient’s presentation.
• Review diagnostic pearls and best tests at the point of care to aid with diagnosis.
• Build a custom differential based on your patient’s signs, symptoms, and other key findings such as travel history.
• View over 43,000 drug reactions.
• Provide on-the-spot patient education with real medical images.
• Access ICD-10 and SNOMED CT codes.
• Perform VisualDx Quiz to test your knowledge of visual presentations of disease, and compete against colleagues via leaderboards.

Get Started with VisualDx

1. From a computer on the VA Network, go to visualdx.com and click on Launch VisualDx in the upper right. Once inside the VisualDx app, click on VisualDx Mobile to register for a personal VisualDx user name and password to use on your mobile device.
   

   You will receive an email from the VisualDx Team with instructions and your username and password.

   
2. Download VisualDx for your iOS and Android devices.
   

   Launch the VisualDx app from your device and sign in using your VisualDx personal account username and password.

   

   Download the guide.

Visit VisualDx's resources page to understand how VisualDx can assist you and your patients through virtual care and telemedicine.

The Doximity app’s Dialer feature enables a VA health care professional to call Veterans from a smartphone without the caller ID displaying their phone number. Instead, the app will display the professional’s office or facility number on the Veteran’s caller ID.

• Call Veterans while displaying a clinic line phone number.
• Find providers based on their specialty, location, and clinical interests.
• Earn free Category 1 continuing medical education credits.
• Send secure, HIPAA-compliant faxes from anywhere.
• Sign, date, and annotate documents.
• Receive the latest news in your specialty.
• Create a digital CV.

Need help with this app? Contact the Doximity team through email or by calling 650-870-2727. Phone support is available from Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. Eastern time.

The VA Mental Health Checkup application (app) for Care Teams supports measurement-based care for Veterans with various mental health conditions. Through the app, VA providers can engage Veterans in their own care with assessments to diagnose symptoms and evaluate levels of distress. With the app, VA staff members (i.e., mental health providers) can assign assessments to Veterans, provide feedback, receive alerts on Veteran assessment scores, receive notifications when Veterans complete assessments, and create Progress Notes for completed assessments. Veterans can complete their assessments on their personal devices at their convenience and obtain the results in real time directly after submitting their responses.

Features:

• Assign and manage assessments to diagnose symptoms and evaluate levels of distress
• Receive alerts and notifications on Veteran assessment scores and completed assignments
• View assessment results in detail or as a graph
• Create Progress Notes for completed assessments
• Provide assignment feedback directly to Veterans

Outreach Materials

Care Teams Promotional Toolkit

VA care teams and other VA staff can use this toolkit to raise awareness about and promote the use of the VA Mental Health Checkup for Care Teams app. Outreach materials for other apps can be found in the Connected Care Promotional Toolkit Directory.

VA network access is required to view the Promotional Toolkit Directory.