Veterans Affairs offer different health and medical benefits
to veterans of different categories. Sometimes, veterans may fall into the trap
of malfunctioning of the system, where they may track the personal health
records. This is why My HealtheVet has come into existence, which is an online
system and can help you to get the complete details of personal health records
from a VA center. There is a subsection in your ‘My Healthevet account’ known
as Personal Health Record or PHR, which helps give you the details of your
correct appointment records.
When you explore this section, there are different things
you will see. One can check the VA Appointments Summary Page if he or she wants
to get info about the list of VA appointments. Here, you can see the VA
Appointments of the last 2 years and even upcoming appointments, if scheduled.
Start knowing what you can have a look at VA Appointments PHR:
Personal Health Record
Once you login to ‘My Healthevet,’ your name will be
displayed, where you can view info about the date and timing of your
appointment at a VA center when it was last updated.
Before your VA appointment
Of course, when your appointment is going to take place,
there is some crucial info that you would want to be familiar with. Check what
can be available to you that you can see before going through your appointment:
- VA Online Scheduling Tool: It may be accessible to find and confirm your appointments at a Veteran Affairs Center. When you have access to this tool, you will be able to choose the facility, type of appointment, and date of the last appointment. This way, online scheduling will give access to different features that help you to get your next appointment without any hassle.
- The next thing you can do is to examine the timing, date, and location of your planned upcoming appointment on the Veteran Affairs Appointments list prior to your visit.
- When you are using this section, you will be asked to give your insurance information to your appointment. This is why you need to take this info in handy always.
More about the VA appointments summary:
Appointments may be canceled or active, which you can check at
VA Appointments Personal Health Record page. Also, the appointment’s status can
be checked. It also displays the clinic name, as well as the medical center
division.
The clinic name may be displayed as ‘Non-VA Care; it means
that your appointment location will not be held at the VA Medical Center, which
is shown. For that, you should contact your appointment scheduling office,
getting to know about the location of the Non-VA Care appointment.
Every column has a specific purpose and meaning to offer. Such
columns can be arranged in ascending/descending order. It is your wish for how
you want to see those columns. To arrange a column, you can choose an up or/and
down triangle.
How to check the status of your appointment?
The first and foremost thing you can do is to choose the
clinic name under ‘Clinic Name.’ after that, the status of your appointment
will be seen. There are different types of statuses, which can be shown, such
as:
- Future appointments: Here, it will give you info about future appointments whether it is canceled or confirmed. Make sure you always examine the status of your VA appointments before going to visit a clinic.
- Past appointments: It will show past appointments, which will have a status as Canceled, Completed, or No Show. If the status is incorrect, you can make it correct by contacting the VA Health Care team.
- Unknown: If the status is unknown, it means that it is a temporary status. The user can see later to check the status of whether or not it has been updated.
Blue Information Box
This box in blue color will tell you essential info or
details that are important to know prior to your appointment. It will tell you
that VA Appointment comes from an official VA medical record of a veteran. My
Healthevet does not share your info with VA’s appointment system. If you wish
to change, cancel or request an appointment, then you can make use of the
Online Scheduling Tool or contact your local VA Facility.
Another way with which you can change or cancel the
appointment is a Secure Message. Send a message to your health care team.
The detailed list of
other tabs is listed below:
- Learn More: It provides a general awareness of VA appointments.
- User Guide: It is available in a PDF file, which makes sure you get the needed and essential info to utilize the appointments in the Healthevet app.
- Print: It displays a page of your VA appointments in a printed form using a printer. If needed, you can also print your VA appointments from Blue Button and Health Calendar.
Using the Health Calendar to print your appointment
First of all, login to ‘My Healthevet account’ and then
choose to Get Care> Health Calendar> List View>, select VA
Appointments under showing event type. After that, choose the Update View and
then give Print command.
Using Blue Button to download data
After signing into your Healthevet account, choose the ‘Blue
Button Medical Reports’ box and then VA Blue Button Report box. Choose a ‘Date
Range’ and then under appointments, choose Future VA Appointments. Press the
‘Submit’ button and choose ‘Download’ for getting an electronic copy of your Future
appointments. In any case, if you need a printed list, then you can click on
‘View.’
This is the overall guide to help you how to use ‘My
Healthevet account’ for checking the summary of your VA appointments along with
the date, location, and time at a VA Facility. Explore Personal Health Record a section at My Healthevet when it comes to checking records of your
appointments.
