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Voluntary Service System (VSS)

<p>Voluntary Service System (VSS) is a national-level application which replaced the site-based Voluntary Timekeeping System (VTK). VTK was used for many years at the Veterans Affairs Medical Centers to track and manage the hours of service contributed by volunteers and volunteer organizations. Consistency of data between sites was a problem and the process of compiling national VTK reports was slow and costly. Many steps were involved because national data was only consolidated once a month and it was usually out of sync. Improved data collection and reporting is now available since users interact directly with a centralized national database. Rehosted VSS uses .NET technology that replaced data transmissions between sites and the Austin Information Technology Center to produce the consolidated national reports. Direct access to data provides instantaneous updates and up-to-the-minute reporting for all users. Central Office administrators and Voluntary staff now have broader more reliable data for managing Volunteer Services.</p>

Tags: tracking, va, veteran, voluntary, volunteer
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
2007 Veterans Employability Research Survey

<p>The goal of the Department of Veterans Affairsï¿½ Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&amp;E) Program is to enable veterans to live independently, achieve the highest quality of life possible and, given advances in medical science and technology, to secure gainful employment. In 2004, an independent task force assessed the VR&amp;E program and concluded that approximately one-third of veterans enrolled in the program did not persist and complete the program.</p>

Tags: employment, survey, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA)

<p>The Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) database, is operated by the Allocation Resource Center (ARC) in Braintree, MA. The ARC is part of the Resource Allocation &amp; Execution Office of the Office of Finance. The database is developed from the Patient Treatment File, National Patient Care Database, Fee Basis Medical and Pharmacy System, Decision Support System (DSS) National extracts, DSS Derived Monthly Program Cost Report (MPCR), Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Minimum Data Set (MDS), Clinical Case Registry (CCR), and Home Dialysis Data Collection System, the Pharmacy Benefits Management database and the Consolidated Enrollment File. Most of the clinical data is Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture data which is transmitted to the Austin Information Technology Center (AITC) where it is retrieved by the ARC each month. The ARC also retrieves DSS cost data from the AITC as well. Some additional information is received from the Hines Pharmacy Benefits Management and the CCR databases. The data from these sources is combined to develop patient-specific care and cost data for each hospitalization or visit at the location or treatment level. Aggregate tables summarize this data for reporting and analysis purposes. The VERA databases are the basis for resource allocation in the Veterans Health Administration.</p>

Tags: allocation, budget, cost, equitable, resource, va, vamc, vera, veteran, visn
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Master Veteran Index (MVI)

<p>As of June 28, 2010, the Master Veteran Index (MVI) database based on the enhanced Master Patient Index (MPI) is the authoritative identity service within the VA, establishing, maintaining and synchronizing identities for VA clients, Veterans and beneficiaries.  The MVI includes authoritative sources for health identity data and contains over 17 million patient entries populated from all VHA facilities nationwide.  The MVI provides the access point mechanism for linking patient's information to enable an enterprise-wide view of patient information, uniquely identifies all active patients who have been admitted, treated, or registered in any VHA facility, and assigns a unique identifier to the patient.  The MVI correlates a patient's identity across the enterprise, including all VistA systems and external systems, such as Department of Defense (DoD) and the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN).  The MVI facilitates the sharing of health information, resulting in coordinated and integrated health care for Veterans.  New Information Technology systems must be interoperable with the MVI and legacy systems will establish integration by October 1, 2012.  The Healthcare Identity Management (HC IdM) Team within VHA's Data Quality Program is the steward of patient identity data, performing maintenance and support activities.</p>

Tags: identifier, identity, patient, unique, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
FY 2020 Total Number of Veterans, Veteran VA Users, and Veteran VA Healthcare Users by Race

Note: "Total Number of Veterans" represents FY 2020 projected Veteran counts from VA's Veteran Population Projection Model 2018 (VetPop18). These projections are made with the assumption that Veterans are not missing information (e.g. race, etc.).
Note: "Veteran VA Users" and "Veteran VA Healthcare Users" represent historical Veteran counts from VA's United States Veterans Eligibility Trends and Statistics 2020 (USVETS 2020).
Note: "Veteran VA Users" includes Veteran users of VA healthcare or any other VA benefit or service.

Sources: USVETS 2020 and VetPop18

Tags: ethnicity, fy-20-va-user, fy-2020, fy20, fy2020, health-care, healthcare, race, va-health-care, va-healthcare, va-user, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Geographic Distribution of VA Expenditures Report FY2015

<p>Geographic Distribution of VA Expenditures Report (GDX) located on the Expenditures page in the Expenditure Tables category. This report details VA expenditures at the state, county, and Congressional District level. It includes categories such as Compensation and Pension, Construction, Insurance, and Medical Care. Veterans population estimates and the number of unique patients who used VA health care services are also available.</p>

Tags: expenditure, va, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
2009 VHA Facility Quality and Safety Report - Population Quality of Care

<p>The 2008 Hospital Report Card was mandated by the FY08 Appropriations Act, and focused on Congressionally-mandated metrics applicable to general patient populations. The 2009 VHA Facility Quality and Safety Report report, not required by Congress, shifts to Veteran-centered metrics, and includes information related to infrastructure, care provided in outpatient and hospital settings, quality of care within given patient populations, accreditation status, patient satisfaction and patient outcomes for FY2008.  The data in this report have been compiled from multiple sources throughout VHA.  This dataset includes composite scores reflecting quality of care for outpatients (NEXUS) and inpatients (ORYX). Quality of outpatient care is further stratified by comparison of outpatient care by gender, age, and mental health diagnosis.</p>

Tags: health, healthcare, hospital, hospital-accreditation, patient-safety, quality-of-care, satisfaction, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Spinal Cord Dysfunction (SCD)

<p>The Spinal Cord Dysfunction (SCD) module supports the maintenance of local and national registries for the tracking of patients with spinal cord injury and disease from both traumatic and non-traumatic causes. SCD includes features for clinical, management, and research staff. Clinicians benefit from the ability to see profiles of SCD patients, ensure that regular annual exams are completed, and measure patient outcomes. Managers have a suite of reports that reflect the resources needed to care for SCD patients. Researchers have access to a national registry for all Veteran SCD patients and their associated health care events.</p>

Tags: cord, disease, exam, health, injury, patient, research, spinal, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veteran Pension Expenditures By State of Residence and Age Group FY 2024

1. This provides a count of Veterans on the rolls for Pension benefits in FY 2024 with expenditures for claims by state and the age groups of Veterans in each category.
2. See VBA's Annual Benefits Report for additional information: www.benefits.va.gov/REPORTS/abr/
3. To protect Veteran privacy any counts consisting of fewer than ten Veterans are not included.

Tags: age-groups, expenditures, pension, residence, state, veteran-benefits
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Identification Card (VHIC)

<p>The Department of Veterans Affairs is providing a Veterans Health Identification Card (VHIC) for veterans to use at VA medical facilities. The VIC will be issued only to veterans who are eligible for VA medical benefits and only for the purpose of identification and check-in for VA medical appointments. The new card protects personal privacy by not showing Social Security Numbers or dates of birth on the front of the cards</p>

Tags: access, identity, security
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
2009 VHA Facility Quality and Safety Report - Patient Satisfaction

<p>The 2008 Hospital Report Card was mandated by the FY08 Appropriations Act, and focused on Congressionally-mandated metrics applicable to general patient populations. The 2009 VHA Facility Quality and Safety Report report, not required by Congress, shifts to Veteran-centered metrics, and includes information related to infrastructure, care provided in outpatient and hospital settings, quality of care within given patient populations, accreditation status, patient satisfaction and patient outcomes for FY2008.  The data in this report have been compiled from multiple sources throughout VHA.  This dataset represents patient satisfaction based on survey data broken out by inpatient/outpatient and stratified ethnicity.</p>

Tags: health, healthcare, hospital-accreditation, patient-safety, quality-of-care, satisfaction, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Annual Report of Residency Training Programs (ARRTP)

<p>The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Resident Supervision Handbook (VHA Handbook 1400.1) requires facility directors to report annually the status of their residency training programs to their Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) Director. VISN Directors review and then forward those reports to the VHA Chief Academic Affiliations Officer. This database enables electronic, paperless reporting of this information from VA Medical Centers to the VISN and from the VISN to the Office of Academic Affiliations.</p>

Tags: academic, residency, resident, train, training, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Converged Registries Solution (CRS)

<p>The Converged Registries Solution (CRS) has been replaced by the Veterans Integrated Registries Platform (VIRP).  The information contained in this entry discusses the CRS prior to its replacement.  The Converged Registries platform was a hardware and software architecture designed to host individual patient registries and eliminate duplicative development effort while maximizing VAs ability to create new patient registries.  The common platform included a relational database, software classes, security modules, extraction services and other components.  The Converged Registries obtained data from the Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW), directly from the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) as well as by direct user input. Registries Projects - Embedded Fragment Registry (EFR), Eye Injury Data Store, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Registry and Veterans Implant Tracking and Alert System (VITAS).</p>

Tags: health, platform, registry, va, veteran, vista, warehouse
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VBA Annual Benefits Report (1999-current)

The Annual Benefits Report (ABR) summarizes the benefit programs delivered by VBA, identifies the current level of program participation, and profiles the beneficiaries. The report is intended to accomplish the following:
1--Present a clear, complete, data-driven picture of the extent to which Veterans and their dependents use these benefits: and
2--Provide insights into the nature of the benefit programs.

Tags: benefits, benefits-participation-rates, dependent-benefits-usage, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
FY11_EOM_August_Face Amount of Life Insurance Coverage by Program by State

<p>Face value of insurance for each administered life insurance program listed by state. Data is current as of 8-31-11.  All programs are closed to new issues except for Service-Disabled Veterans' Insurance and Veterans' Mortgage Life Insurance.  United States Government Life Insurance was issued to WWI military personnel and Veterans.  National Service Life Insurance was established to meet the needs of WWII military personnel and Veterans.  Veterans' Special Life Insurance was issued to Korean War-era Veterans.  Veterans' Reopened Insurance provides coverage to certain classes of disabled Veterans from WWII and the Korean conflict who had dropped their government life insurance coverage.  Service-Disabled Veterans' Insurance was established in 1951 and is available to Veterans with service-connected disabilities.  Veterans' Mortgage Life Insurance was established in 1971 to provide mortgage protection life insurance to severely disabled Veterans who have received grants for the purchase of specially-adapted housing.</p>

Tags: benefits, insurance, state
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Geographic Distribution of VA Expenditures FY2010

<p>This report details VA expenditures at the state, county, and Congressional District level. It includes categories such as Compensation and Pension, Construction, Insurance, and Medical Care. Veteran population estimates and the number of unique patients who used VA health care services are also available.</p>

Tags: 2012, compensation-and-pension, congressional-district, construction, county, distribution, education, expenditures, general-operating-expenses, insurance, medical-care
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Research and Development Information System (RDIS)

<p>The Research and Development Information System (RDIS) is the Veterans Affairs Central Office budgetary and project data repository for managing the VA Research and Development Program. The RDIS contains data collected from Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs) on all VA research projects. It stores information on VAMC investigators, project budget allocations and expenditures, initial project abstracts, progress reports and research space. VA Medical Centers collect and submit the data using an application called electronic Project Management and Information System (ePROMISE). That data is submitted to Veterans Affairs Central Office and becomes a component of RDIS. ePROMISE collects data from over 150 VA facilities (including 75 VAMCs). VA funded, non-VA funded and non-funded research proposals are reviewed and must be approved by the Research and Development (R&amp;D) Committee and relevant R&amp;D Subcommittees (Human Studies, Animal Use, and/or Biosafety) at each VAMC. Basic information on research projects approved by the VAMC Research and Development committee is transmitted to the RDIS, which tracks the life cycle of these projects.</p>

Tags: animal, budget, development, human, investigator, project, research, scientist, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Restricted-Use NCHS-VA Linked Data Files

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) population health survey data have been linked to VA administrative data containing information on military service history and VA benefit program utilization. The linked data can provide information on the health status and access to health care for VA program beneficiaries. In addition, researchers can compare the health of Veterans within and outside the VA health care system and compare Veterans to non-Veterans in the civilian non-institutionalized U.S. population. 

Due to confidentiality requirements, the Restricted-use NCHS-VA Linked Data Files are accessible only through the NCHS Research Data Center (RDC) Network. All interested researchers must submit a research proposal to the RDC.  Please see the NCHS RDC website (https://www.cdc.gov/rdc/index.htm) for instructions on submitting a proposal.

Tags: health, health-provider, hospital, nutrition, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
My HealtheVet (MHV)

<p>My HealtheVet (MHV) is VA's award-winning online Personal Health Record (PHR), located at <a href="http://www.myhealth.va.gov">www.myhealth.va.gov</a>. The mission of MHV is to transform the  delivery of health and health care for all Veterans, independent of where they receive care, by providing one-stop, online access to better manage their overall health, make informed health decisions, and record and store important health and military history information. MHV provides access to VA health care and information 24/7 through web-based tools that empower Veterans to become active partners in their health care.  MHV registrants can click a 'Blue Button' on the website to view, print or download their available personal health information and military service information. They can choose to share that information with other providers, caregivers, family members or job advocates safely, securely, and privately.  Web technology combines essential health record information enhanced by online health resources. This enables and encourages patient/clinician collaboration. The online environment maps closely to existing clinical business practices and extends management and delivery of care.  MHV allows VA patients to request and receive VA prescription refills and provides a blended history of VA and self-entered medications.  Registrants whose personal identities have been verified as VA patients can receive copies of select VA electronic health records, including VA Appointments, Chemistry/Hematology Lab Results, Allergies and Wellness Reminders.  Many VA patients are communicating with their participating health care teams through Secure Messaging.</p>

Tags: health, healthy, mhv, personal, record, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
PAI Data Set For Maps Data Story 2 of 3

This is number 2 of 3 data sets that accompany Data Set for Maps Data Story on VA's Open Data Site. Specifically this identifies zip codes where VA facilities could perform benefits examinations during phase 2.



Specifically this provides zip codes where VA facilities that could perform benefits examinations during phase 2 .

Tags: benefits, exam, examinations, open-data, va, vba, veterans, zip-code
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Business Event Notification Service (BENS)

<p>BENS provides a notification of pre-defined business events to applications, portals, and automated business processes. Such events are defined in the Event Catalog, with examples including change in military service duty status, change of address, etc. Business events are defined and governed by the business, are used to drive business process, and exist independently of implementation considerations. The business event management service supports publication of business events by authorized publishers through the Event Notification governance process. The service supports subscription to business events by authorized subscribers, also supported by the governance process. The service supports automatic, reliable, and timely notification of published business events to subscribers. The service supports creation and modification of business event definitions. The service supports governance of changes to business event definitions, and authorization of publishers and subscribers. BENS is separate from data synchronization, though the interrelationships have been identified to ensure the elimination of redundancy and race conditions.</p>

Tags: bens, event, notification
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
FY11_EOM_August_Number of Life Insurance Policies by Program by State

<p>Number of life insurance policies for each administered life insurance program listed by state. Data is current as of 08/31/11.  All programs are closed to new issues except for Service-Disabled Veterans' Insurance and Veterans' Mortgage Life Insurance.  United States Government Life Insurance was issued to WWI military personnel and Veterans.  National Service Life Insurance was established to meet the needs of WWII military personnel and Veterans.  Veterans' Special Life Insurance was issued to Korean War-era Veterans.  Veterans' Reopened Insurance provides coverage to certain classes of disabled Veterans from WWII and the Korean conflict who had dropped their government life insurance coverage.  Service-Disabled Veterans' Insurance was established in 1951 and is available to Veterans with service-connected disabilities.  Veterans' Mortgage Life Insurance was established in 1971 to provide mortgage protection life insurance to severely disabled Veterans who have received grants for the purchase of specially-adapted housing.</p>

Tags: benefits, insurance, state
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Gulf War - Pre 9/11 Veterans: Trends in Users by VA Program

This data set consists of one row per federal fiscal year (FY) from FY 2010 - FY 2019, and reports the number of users, non-users and percent users for each of eight VA programs for Veterans who were in service at any time between August 2, 1990, and September 10, 2001, the dates of the Pre-9/11 Gulf War era. Data for the Disability Compensation and Disability Pension programs are reported separately as well as together under the name Compensation or Pension.

Tags: cemetery, disability-compensation, disability-pension, education-benefits, gulf-war, health-care, healthcare, home-loan-guaranty, life-insurance, memorial, memorials, pension, veteran-population, veterans, veterans-affairs, veterans-data, vocational-rehabilitation, vocational-rehabilitation-services
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VistA Evolution Program Plan

<p>'The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) are working together to fundamentally and positively impact the health outcomes of Veterans, Service members, and their dependents. Achieving interoperability of health records between the two Departments is the chief goal motivating the Departmentsï¿½ electronic health record (EHR) efforts. Seamless integration of health data from VA, DoD, and other healthcare partners enables clinicians and patients to benefit from the availability of a complete longitudinal health record, achieving the goal of developing electronic records that will transition along with them from active-duty to retired status.The Departments are on complementary paths for modernizing their respective EHR systems, replacing or enhancing existing systems as required to support delivery of the best possible care in their particular environments. For its part, VA will enhance, or evolve, its Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) EHR to achieve its interoperability, clinical, and technical objectives. This VistA Evolution Program Plan captures VAï¿½s structured approach to executing this mission.'</p>

Tags: evolution, plan, program, vista
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs