Col. Daniel Kral, director of the Telehealth & Advanced Technology Research Center for the Army’s Medical Research & Material Command, Fort Detrick, Maryland, discussed how health information technology improves access to care. He presented during the "Providing Telehealth Services and Improving Access to Care Using HIT" session at the Defense Health Information Technology Symposium (DHITS) in Orlando, Florida, on Aug. 3. 

Kral said, just like all military assets, information technology (IT) must be planned with the future, not the past, in mind. He was joined by Public Health Service Cmdr. William Satterfield, telehealth/telementoring program officer for the Defense Health Agency’s Clinical Support Division, and Andrew Jacobs with the agency’s Health IT Investment Branch.