AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
FY 2021 Total Number of Veterans, Veteran VA Users, and Veteran VA Healthcare Users by Race

Notes:

"Total Number of Veterans" represents FY 2021 projected Veteran counts from VA's Veteran Population Projection Model 2020 (VetPop20). These projections represent living Veterans as of 9/30/2021 and are made with the assumption that Veterans are not missing information (e.g., race, etc.).

"Veteran VA Users" represents historical Veteran VA user counts from VA's United States Veterans Eligibility Trends and Statistics 2021 (USVETS 2021). These counts represent Veterans who used any VA benefit or service during FY 2021 (includes both living and deceased Veterans as of end of FY 2021).

"Veteran VA Healthcare Users" represents historical Veteran VA healthcare user counts from VA's United States Veterans Eligibility Trends and Statistics 2021 (USVETS 2021). These counts represent Veterans who used VA healthcare during FY 2021 (includes both living and deceased Veterans as of end of FY 2021).

"Veteran VA Users" includes Veteran users of VA healthcare or any other VA benefit or service.

Sources: USVETS 2021 and VetPop20
Effective Date: 9/30/2021

Tags: 2021, ethnicity, fy-2021, fy-21, fy2021, fy21, health-care, healthcare, race, va-health-care, va-healthcare, va-user, va-users, veteran, veteran-health-care, veteran-healthcare, veteran-user, veteran-users, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of Veterans Affairs FY 2014-2020 Strategic Plan

<p>The VA Strategic Plan for 2010–2014 established our enduring principles: people-centric, results-driven, and forward-looking. We will continue to use those principles to increase Veterans’ access to benefits, eliminate the disability claims backlog, and end the rescue phase of Veteran homelessness.</p>

Tags: department-of-veterans-affairs, strategic-plan, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Utilization Profile FY18 - Fig 17, Percentage of Service-Connected Disabled Who Did and Did Not Use Health Care, by Race

Percentage of Service-Connected Disabled Who Did and Did Not Use Health Care, by Race. Data underlying the fourth figure of Part 2 of the FY2018 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.

Tags: utilization, veteran-benefits, veterans, veterans-benefits
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
OGC Precedent Opinion 3-2015

<p>Whether Graves of Civil War-Era Soldiers Currently Identified with Marble Stones with Numerical Inscriptions Constitute Unmarked Graves for Purposes of VA Furnishing a Headstone or Marker under 38 U.S.C. § 2306  Author: Lee, Y.K.</p>

Tags: ogc, opinion
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
PAI Data Set For Open Data Maps Data Story 1 of 3

This is number 1 of 3 data sets that accompany Open Data Maps Data Story on VA's Open Data Site.

Specifically this is a crosswalk data set that identifies VA facilities and their locations via postal address with zip codes and Latitude and Longitude information for facility geo plotting postal addresses.  Facility location information as of 2018.

Tags: address, benefits, exam, examinations, latitude, longitude, open-data, va, va-facilities, vba, veterans, zip-code
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Pre 9/11 Gulf War Cohort

Background information and charts concerning the cohort of veterans who served from the time of the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) to September 11, 2001. The story also invites all veterans to avail themselves of all VA benefits for which they qualify.

Tags: cemetery, disability-compensation, disability-pension, education, gulf-war, health-care, healthcare, home-loan-guaranty, life-insurance, memorial, memorials, pension, va-benefits, va-programs, va-services, veteran-population, veterans, veterans-affairs, veterans-data, vocational-rehabilitation, vocational-rehabilitation-services
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Master Veteran Index (MVI) Service

<p>The authoritative source for person identity data. Maintains identity data for persons across VA systems. Provides a unique universal identifier for each person. Stores identity data as correlations for each system where a person is known. Provides a probabilistic matching algorithm. (Includes MPI, PSIM, and IdM TK) Maintains a gold copy known as a Primary View of the persons identity data. Broadcasts identity trait updates to systems of interest. Maintains a record locator service.</p>

Tags: access, identity, security
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Functional Status and Outcome Database (FSOD)

<p>The Functional Status and Outcome Database (FSOD) captures and tracks information about patient rehabilitative care throughout the VA. FSOD supports the entry of information from acute and sub-acute inpatient rehabilitation programs, as well as a broad range of outpatient rehabilitation programs. Outcome-based information including length of stay and cost is also tracked. Participating Veterans Affairs Medical Center staff enter information into FSOD on-line through a software program called VA FIMware (Functional Independence Measurement (FIM)). Users throughout the VA can access stored FSOD data through VA FIMware. Quarterly, FSOD data is transferred electronically to the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSmr) server in Buffalo, New York. The UDSmr database contains a U.S. national roll-up of rehabilitative programs. Users include all VA personnel involved in rehabilitative care and the UDSmr.</p>

Tags: fsod, functional, health, injury, outcome, rehab, rehabilitation, status, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VA Pharmacy Benefits Management Services

<p>The VA Pharmacy Benefits Management Services offer a broad range of services and are committed to provide and deliver Veterans personalized, proactive, patient-driven health care.  Our Mission:  To improve the health status of Veterans by encouraging the appropriate use of medications in a comprehensive medical care setting.  Our Goal:  To provide Veterans with reliable, evidence-based medication information in an efficient manner so you along with your health care team can make informed decisions about your medications and improve your overall health.</p>

Tags: drug, health, healthcare, medication, pbm, pharmacy, prescription, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Plan Library Information and Retrieval System (PLIARS)

<p>The Plan Library Information and Retrieval System (PLIARS) is an electronic catalogue of microfilmed Contract and As-Built drawings of VA building plans and cemeteries. It is a single flat file list of the more than 500,000 aperture cards stored at the Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO). Each record contains an entry for Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) station number, date, building number, a code representing the discipline, project number, floor, and wing. Disciplines include architectural, electrical, mechanical, structural, etc. Hard copy of the plans are stored at each VAMC. The plans are microfilmed at the National Archives and aperture cards are produced for both Contract and As-Built stages of the contract. An original copy of each aperture card is kept at the National Archives, with copies to VACO and the VAMC. The Program Planning and Management Office enters a record into PLIARS for each new card the VACO receives. They are also responsible for maintaining the database. Primary users of the PLIARS database are contractors hired to do work. In-house technical staff and the Engineering offices at the VAMC's. Users of PLIARS can request aperture cards for the buildings, disciplines, projects and medical centers as needed. Staff pull the aperture cards from the files and make either half or full size blow-ups of the drawings.</p>

Tags: architectural, architecture, blueprint, electrical, engineer, mechanical, microfilm, schematic, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Facilities & Leadership

<p>The facilities web service provides VA facility information. The VA facilities locator is a feature that is available across the enterprise, on any webpage, for the Department of Veterans Affairs. It is comprised of data from across the different facilities, and is updated multiple times a day by multiple personnel. This API gives external users the ability to interact with the most up to date information about VA facilities.</p>

Tags: building-information, facilities, location, va
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VHA Support Service Center Capital Assets (VSSC)

<p>The VHA Support Service Center Capital Assets Databases is a web based project application and tracking database. This is used for capital project application submissions and capital project tracking for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Minor, Clinical Specific Initiative (CSI) and Non-recurring Maintenance (NRM) Programs. Annually, VHA Facilities enter project applications. Monthly, the VHA facilities update the schedule and cost information for approved projects.</p>

Tags: assets, capital, cost, maintenance, non-recurring, tracking, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Registry Veterans in VHA Care in 2015, for the Nation, by VISN and by Station

<p>This report describes the number of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) registry Veterans in VHA care in 2015 based on serologic evidence of HCV infection status (HCV Positive) as well as the subset of those with VA laboratory evidence of HCV viremia (HCV Viremic). The difference between the HCV Positive and the HCV Viremic is the number of Veterans with a positive HCV antibody test who do not have VA laboratory documentation of a test for HCV viremia. For more information on data and methods see the HCV General Notes on this website and the Notes at the end of this report.</p>

Tags: hcv, hepatitis-c-virus, hiv, human-immunodeficiency-virus, veterans, vha
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Lookback Dataset (CJDLD)

<p>The tracking system is for patients identified in the Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD) lookback notification initiative established in January 1995 as part of the lookback notification of all Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) patients who may have received certain lot numbers of blood derivatives or blood components produced from donors with CJD. Even though the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention characterized the risk of transmission of CJD from blood derivative products as 'small and immeasurable' and 'theoretical', VA believed it had an ethical obligation to inform patients of the exposure to potentially contaminated blood components or plasma derivative products while under VA's care. The patients were notified. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) established a tracking system for individuals who received these products to determine if there was an increase in VA CJD cases. Every two years, the VHA National Infectious Diseases Service updates the status of patients who had previously been identified through the VA CJD lookback notification initiative. The Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Lookback Dataset (CJDLD) is a prospective collection of data; requests for individual reports are not accepted.</p>

Tags: blood, cjd, creutzfeldt-jakob-disease, infectious-disease, lookback, patient, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Emerging Pathogens Initiative (EPI)

<p>The Emerging Pathogens Initiative (EPI) database contains emerging pathogens information from the local Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs). The EPI software package allows the VA to track emerging pathogens on the national level without additional data entry at the local level. The results from aggregation of data can be shared with the appropriate public health authorities including non-VA and the private health care sector allowing national planning, formulation of intervention strategies, and resource allocations. EPI is designed to automatically collect data on emerging diseases for Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO) to analyze. The data is sent to the Austin Information Technology Center (AITC) from all Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) systems for initial processing and combination with related workload data. VACO data retrieval and analysis is then carried out. The AITC creates two file structures both in Statistical Analysis Software (SAS) file format, which are used as a source of data for the Veterans Affairs Headquarters (VAHQ) Infectious Diseases Program Office. These files are manipulated and used for analysis and reporting by the National Infectious Diseases Service. Emerging Pathogens (as characterized by VACO) act as triggers for data acquisition activities in the automated program. The system retrieves relevant, predetermined, patient-specific information in the form of a Health Level Seven (HL7) message that is transmitted to the central data repository at the AITC. Once at that location, the data is converted to a SAS dataset for analysis by the VACO National Infectious Diseases Service. Before data transmission an Emerging Pathogens Verification Report is produced for the local sites to review, verify, and make corrections as needed. After data transmission to the AITC it is added to the EPI database.</p>

Tags: disease, emerging, infectious, pathogen, patient, sas, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Clinical Information Support System (CISS)

<p>Clinical Information Support System (CISS) is a web-based portal application that provides a framework of services for the VA enterprise and supplies an integration point for its partner systems. The initial CISS partner system is the Occupational Health Record-keeping System (OHRS), a web-based application that enables employee occupational health staff to create, maintain, and monitor medical records for VA employees and generate national, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN), and site-specific reports.The CISS portal is development in the delivery of information and applications to the clinical user community. It provides a single point of access for the clinical user's application and information needs, facilitating faster and more efficient patient care.The CISS framework further establishes a foundation for publishing any type of application, including clinical, non-clinical, HealtheVet, and legacy applications. These plug-in applications, called 'partner systems', can be developed independently and published to the users through the CISS portal. The CISS Program development team uses repeatable Agile development, management and support processes to rapidly develop quality software in 6-month release cycles, improving efficiency and customer satisfaction.</p>

Tags: clinical, framework, ohrs, platform, portal, va, veteran, visn, web
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VHA Data Sharing Agreement Repository

<p>The VHA Data Sharing Agreement Repository serves as a centralized location to collect and report on agreements that share VHA data with entities outside of VA. It  provides senior management an overall view of existing data sharing agreements; fosters productive sharing of health information with VHA's external partners;  and streamlines data acquisition to improve data management responsibilities overall. Agreements that VHA has established with entities within the VA are not candidates for this Repository.</p>

Tags: data-sharing-agreement, dua, dursa, moa, mou, swrl
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Affairs Geographic Distribution of Expenditures FY06 by Congressional District

<p>The Geographic Distribution of VA Expenditures (GDX)  is an annual report that shows estimated VA expenditures for major programmatic areas by geographic area (state, county, and congressional district). The major programmatic areas are: Compensation and Pension; Readjustment (Education) and Vocational Rehabilitation; Insurance; Construction; and, Medical and Administrative.</p>

Tags: expenditure, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Provisioning (Prov)

<p>User provisioning is the process of associating a digital identity with one or more resource access accounts, which may serve as records for user data and permissions. This may include the creation, modification, deletion, suspension, or restoration of such accounts and also synchronizing user data. Managing user accounts locally creates redundancy in collecting and managing user information. This may lead to inaccuracies and inconsistencies with user data that is stored in authoritative sources, and this may also create security vulnerabilities by maintaining accounts for terminated users. By leveraging Provisioning, VA applications are able to centrally manage user information, attributes, roles, and accounts using data from authoritative identity sources. Once a manually intensive and disjointed process, VAs Provisioning (Prov) service leverages automated and centralized workflows to enhance security and bolster efficiency. As a result, application administrators, who previously had to manually manage user administration, now have services available to automate the process. Provisioning assigns the Security Identifier (SecID) as a unique user identifier for integrated applications to use for user authorization and audit. SecID is a unique ID assigned to a user when they are added to the Provisioning system via an on-boarding event. SecID, once assigned, remains the same even if the user status with VA changes over time (i.e., a Veteran becomes a contractor and then later becomes an employee). SecID is the identifier used to correlate Provisioning records to MVIs integration control number (ICN), which is the unique person identifier. Provisioning automates the on-boarding and off-boarding flows. Applications leveraging Provisioning gain an added benefit of automated account removal (deprovisioning) during off-boarding. The following table lists the detailed functions offered by the Provisioning service. Additionally, the Provisioning service includes a Role Engineering and Compliance Tool (RECT) that can help applications:  Conduct Role Analysis: Provides the ability to analyze current roles and permissions to rapidly build and deploy an enterprise role model  Certify User Roles: Provides the ability to have access privileges reviewed and managed by designated reviewers</p>

Tags: access, identity, security
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
National Prosthetic Patient Database (NPPD (Prosthetics & Sensory Aids Service))

<p>The National Prosthetics Patient Database (NPPD) established a central database of Prosthetics data recorded at each Veterans Health Administration facility. Its objective was to enable clinical reviews to increase quality, reduce costs, and improve efficiency of the Prosthetics program. Increase the quality of the services to our Veterans by providing a means to develop consistency in services, review prescription and management practices, develop training, monitor Home Medical Equipment, and measure performance improvements. Reduce costs by comparing costs system-wide, identifying common items for consolidated contracting, identifying costs for Medical Cost Care Funds (MCCF) purposes and improving contracting cost benefit. Improve efficiency by validating the data, improving budget management, determining where coding errors occur, providing training, and comparing unique social security numbers for multiple site usage and item issue. The NPPD Menu provides patient information, patient eligibility, Prosthetic treatment, date of provision, cost, vendor, and purchasing agent information. This system tracks average cost data and its usage and provides on both a monthly and quarterly basis detailed and summary reports by station, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) and agency. The NPPD Menu resides in Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) at the medical center level. This data is updated quarterly. Data is rolled up at each facility and transmitted to Hines. The data is then loaded into the Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) from which data extracts are done. The data is also put into a ProClarity cube and is available to VA local, regional, and national managers online. National managers have the ability to properly monitor, oversee and manage the national program and regional managers are able to effectively manage their respective areas using this tool. The primary purpose of this database is to provide financial and clinical oversight of the Prosthetics program and is used primarily by the Prosthetics and Sensory Aids (PSA) including VISN staff, VISN Prosthetics Representatives, Prosthetics Program Managers and other Prosthetics staff.</p>

Tags: aids, cost, patient, prosthetics, provision, sensory, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Behavioral Health Autopsy Program (BHAP)

<p>Following the death of a Veteran by suicide, BHAP receives post-mortem medical data and interviewee contact information from VHA suicide prevention coordinators. Data include relevant historical activities and related medical concerns as reviewed in the Veteran's medical record. Interviewees typically include a Veteran's family or close friends. Interviewee data includes behavioral information about the Veteran prior to their death. Data are collected at the VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention and are cleaned, processed, and managed by statistical staff and program analysts on behalf of Mental Health Services.</p>

Tags: behavior, health, patient, prevention, suicide, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VA-OHE-NVHER-FY13-Diagnoses-Geography

A subset of the FY13 National Veteran Health Equity Report, filtered by geography.

The National Veteran Health Equity Report details patterns and provides comparative rates of health conditions for vulnerable Veteran groups. Specifically, this report is designed to provide basic comparative information on the sociodemographics, utilization patterns and rates of diagnosed health conditions among the groups over which the VHA Office of Health Equity (OHE) has responsibility with respect to monitoring, evaluating and acting on identified disparities in access, use, care, quality and outcomes. The report allows the VA, Veterans, and stakeholders to monitor the care vulnerable Veterans receive and set goals for improving their care.

Tags: age, demographics, ethnicity, geography, health, health-equity, mental-health, ohe, patient, race, registry, sex, utilization, va, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Dental Encounter System (DES)

<p>Dental Encounter System (DES) is an automated health care application designed to capture critical data about the operations of VA Dental Services. Information on completed procedures is gathered for each patient encounter through the Dental Record Manager software, which is a VA Computerized Patient Record System Class I adjunct application. This DES information is linked and includes encounter date, patient, provider, procedures, diagnosis codes, and additional associated qualifiers. DES productivity is measured using weighted work units known as relative value units (RVUs). RVU values are determined cooperatively by the Dental Coding Committee and Decision Support System (DSS) staff. One RVU is a measure of work effort and represents one minute of the average provider's time (presuming the provider is supported with one dental assistant and one treatment room) and is reported as a value with each procedure reported to DES. DES transactions are sent to the Austin Information Technology Center (AITC) database using standard Health Level Seven (HL7) messaging and the VA Vitria Interface Engine. These batched HL7 messages are parsed at the AITC and placed in a flat database file.</p>

Tags: dental, dentist, encounter, patient, provider, teeth, va, veteran, vista
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs