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Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Repository

<p>This repository contains Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) that have been vetted/approved. Section 208 of the Electronic Government Act of 2002 (E-Gov Act) requires federal agencies to conduct a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) on information technology systems that either (1) collect, maintain, and/or disseminate Personally Identifiable Information (PII); or (2) make substantial changes to existing technology that manages PII.. A PIA is an analysis of how PII is collected, stored, protected, shared, and managed. Its purpose is to demonstrate that the information system owners and/or developers have incorporated privacy protections throughout the lifecycle of the system. Absent a legitimate security or sensitivity concern demonstrated by the agency, the E-Gov Act requires agencies to make PIAs publicly available.The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Privacy, FOIA, and Records Management strive to be the leader among Federal Information Technology (IT) organizations in protecting the privacy of Veterans' personal data. Our goal is to respond to mandates to meet the needs of Veterans, while improving the protection of their personal information.To view a PIA for a particular system, go to the heading labeled 'System Operating with a Current/Valid FY2013 PIA' and select the name of the program/project of interest.</p>

Tags: pia, privacy-impact-assessment, va
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Affairs Geographic Distribution of Expenditures FY07 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
Traumatic Brain Injury Registry (TBI)

<p>As the number of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients has grown, so has the need to track and monitor care to meet the lifelong needs of these veterans.  In March 2007, a Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) OIF/OEF TBI Screening Reminder was released.  This is a first-line screening tool to identify potential TBI patients.  Additional information about veterans who have been identified as possible TBI patients by the initial Screening Reminder is collected through a Comprehensive TBI evaluation.  Reminder results, in the form of Health Factors, Comprehensive TBI evaluation data, and Comprehensive TBI Follow-up results of individual Veterans will be sent to a national database.  This data will be aggregated in order to provide relevant responses to key stakeholders, such as members of Congress, to monitor the quality of care and to implement system improvements. In addition, tracking applications will be used to collect data on TBI patient appointments.</p>

Tags: brain, enduring, freedom, injury, iraqi, oef, oif, operation, registry, tbi, traumatic, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (VASQIP)

<p>The Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (VASQIP) database resides in the VA National Surgery Office (NSO) and is a quality assurance activity-derived database containing information on all patients who undergo surgery within the VA. The primary purpose of this database is to improve the quality of care for Veterans undergoing surgery by providing information to care provider teams for self-assessment and quality improvement purposes. Data for the VASQIP database are entered by nurse data managers using Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) at the VA surgical facilities. These data captured in VistA are securely transmitted to the VASQIP database for compilation and analysis. Results of the data analysis are reported from the National Surgery Office (NSO) for quarterly and annual review of surgical quality and patient care issues; these data are confidential and privileged under the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 5705 and its implementing regulations. Note: In 2009, the Cardiac Specialty program (Continuous Improvement in Cardiac Surgery Program (CICSP)) was merged with the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) for a comprehensive all-specialty surgical database, VASQIP.  It employs both Microsoft SQL Server and Statistical Analysis Software implementation.</p>

Tags: 38-u-s-c, 38-usc, 5705, cardiac, improvement, quality, surgery, surgical, u-s-c, usc, va, vasqip, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans who used VA Health Care

Health Care: All Veterans who received either VA inpatient care, VA outpatient care, purchased (fee basis) care, VA long-term services and support, or VA pharmacy care were included. VA Health Care enrollees who did not seek care from VA during the current year were not included. Veterans who only sought care from a VHA Vet Center were not included. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) provides Health Care.

Tags: health-care, veteran, veteran-benefits
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VHA Support Service Center Primary Care Management Module (PCMM)

<p>The Primary Care Management Module (PCMM) was developed to assist VA facilities in implementing Primary Care.  PCMM supports both Primary Care and non-Primary Care teams.  The software allows the user to set up and define a team, assign positions to the team, assign staff to the positions, assign patients to the team, and assign patients to a Primary Care Provider (PCP) or Associate Provider (AP).  In a Primary Care setting, patients are assigned a PCP, Associate Provider (AP) and/or a Transition Patient Advocate (TPA) who is responsible for delivering essential health care, coordinating all health care services, and serving as the point of access for specialty care.  The PCP is supported by a team of professionals which may include nurses, pharmacists, social workers, etc.  Associate Providers are non-physician clinicians (such as Physicians Assistants, Nurse Practitioners or Residents) who may provide care under the supervision of a presiding PCP.  The PCMM software is considered to be an important component to measure patient demand and the PCPs capacity to meet that demand and to reduce wait times. PCMM was developed to assist facilities in implementing primary care for veterans.  It uses the site's data to identify patients and to assign them to a PCP.  PCMM provides tools to facilitate the startup process, automating such tasks as identifying patients to be assigned to primary care; assigning patients to teams, and assigning patients to practitioners via team positions.</p>

Tags: health, management, nurse, patient, physician, primary, resident, team, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VA-OHE-NVHER-FY13-Diagnoses-Sex

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

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
VA Forms API

Look up VA forms and check for new versions. Our goal is to make it easier to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of VA forms. This API indexes data sourced from VA.gov, creating unique hashes for each version of a form and allowing quick lookup. The documentation is hosted by Lighthouse, a Veteran-centered API platform for securely accessing VA data.

Tags: api, api-documentation, forms, lighthouse, open-data
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VIERS Military History Service

<p>The VIERS Military History service provides Veteran military history information that is consolidated across multiple data sources. This consolidated data is provided as part of the VRM initiative to improve the speed, accuracy and efficiency with which information is exchanged between Veterans and VA. This information is exposed to the VIERS Consumers via a SOAP based web service. It queries the VA/DoD Identity Repository (VADIR) and Corporate Database (CorpDB) repositories to retrieves electronic copies of military service information including periods of service, periods of captivity, and military pay. The VRM VIERS Military History Service also provides the capability to update the VA data repositories with unverified periods of service and unverified periods of captivity. Service provides a view of all military history to date(historical, current, retirement, Line of Duty/WII) for a partiular person such as branch, entry dates, separation dates, discharge characters. Provide definitive view of Veterans Military Service Information- Read access to veteran military service information (electronic DD-214/215)- Current member DoD affiliation status and information (Active duty, Guard/Reserve, Retired, Dependent)- DoD Eligibility and Entitlement (Insurance, Education)- DFAS Military Payments (severance, separation, retirement)- Supports submission by veterans of supplemental evidence of service (Vietnam Era)- Medals, awards</p>

Tags: history, military
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
All Dependency and Indemnity (DIC) Compensation Recipients by Veteran’s Period of Service, FY2022

All DIC Recipients by the Period of Service of the Veterans, FY2022. DIC is a tax-free monetary benefit generally payable to a surviving spouse, child, or parent of deceased Servicemembers or Veterans.

Tags: dic-benefits, veterans, veterans-surviving-spouses-and-children
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Affairs Central Cancer Registry (VACCR)

<p>The Veterans Affairs Central Cancer Registry (VACCR) receives and stores information on cancer diagnosis and treatment constraints compiled and sent in by the local cancer registry staff at each of the 132 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers that diagnose and/or treat Veterans with cancer. The information sent is encoded to meet the site-specific requirements for registry inclusion as established by several oversight bodies, including the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, the American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer, and the American Joint Commission on Cancer, among others. The information is obtained from a wide variety of medical record documents at the local medical center pertaining to each Veterans Health Administration (VHA) cancer patient. The information is then transmitted to the VACCR. Details collected include extensive demographics, cancer identification, extent of disease and staging, first course of treatment, and outcomes. Data extraction is available to researchers with VA approved Institutional Review Board studies, peer review, and Data Use Agreements.</p>

Tags: cancer, diagnosis, disease, health, patient, registry, stage, treatment, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Electronic Signature (eSig)

<p>Beginning with the Government Paperwork Elimination Act of 1998 (GPEA), the Federal government has encouraged the use of electronic / digital signatures to enable electronic transactions with agencies, while still providing a means for proof of user consent and non-repudiation. To support this capability, some means of reliable user identity management must exist. Currently, Veterans have to physically print, sign, and mail various documents that, in turn, need to be processed by VA. This process creates a huge inconvenience on the part of the veteran and a financial burden on VA. eSig enables veterans and their surrogates to digitally sign forms that require a high level of verification that the user signing the document is a legitimate and authorized user. In addition, eSig provides a mechanism for VA applications to verify the authenticity of user documents and data integrity on user forms. This capability is enabled by the eSig service. The eSig service signing process includes the following steps: 1. Form Signing Attestation: The user affirms their intent to electronically sign the document and understands re-authentication is part of that process. 2. Re-Authentication: The user must refresh their authentication by repeating the authentication process. 3. Form Signing: The form and the identity of the user are presented to the eSig service, where they are digitally bound and secured. 4. Form Storage: The signed form must be stored for later validation. In this process, the application is entirely responsible for steps 1, 2, and 4. In step 3, the application must use the eSig web service to request signing of the document. The following table lists the detailed functions offered by the eSig service.</p>

Tags: access, identity, security
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of Veterans Affairs - Monthly Report to Congress of Data Incidents (May 2014)

<p>This is a monthly report that the VA Office of Information Technology provides to congress about data incidents that took place during the month (May 2014).  The report contains details about and total numbers of mis-handling incidents;  mis-mailed incidents; mis-mailed CMOP incidents; IT equipment inventory incidents; missing stolen PC incidents; missing/stolen laptop incident; lost blackberry incidents;  and lost non-blackberry mobile devices (tablets, iPhones, androids, etc.) incidents.</p>

Tags: blackberry, congress, data-incidents, equipment, incidents, inventory, lost, mis-handling, mis-mailed, monthly-report, stolen, va
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VA-OHE-NVHER-FY13-Diagnoses-Race/Ethnicity

A subset of the FY13 National Veteran Health Equity Report, filtered by race/ethnicity.

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
Occupational Health Record-keeping System (OHRS)

<p>Occupational Health Record-keeping System (OHRS) is part of the Clinical Information Support System (CISS) portal framework and the initial CISS partner system.  OHRS is 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 focus of OHRS is to collect clinical data for wellness, medical surveillance, and appropriate treatment of work-based injury or illness. OHRS will capture and store information on patient encounters, such as encounter type, purpose, status, provider, and other pertinent clinical data obtained during the patient visit. Users with appropriate security privileges are allowed to add and sign or co-sign the encounter and, if needed, perform scheduled and unscheduled reporting on items such as vaccination rates, vaccination and immunity statuses. The OHRS application does not share patient-specific data, but will collect data elements limited to information deemed critical to the Occupational Health delivery of care processes in the OHRS database. Employee data is obtained from the central Personnel and Accounting Integrated Data System (PAID) while volunteer information is obtained from the Voluntary Service System (VSS). Other Non-Paid and non-VSS data is collected by direct data entry into OHRS at the time of the patient encounter. OHRS is further designed to document, track and report immunizations administered to other Federal Agency employees outside of VA.</p>

Tags: employee, health, occupational, va, veteran, wellness
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Rural Veterans by State (2014)

<p>This speadsheet contains data from the 2014 American Community Survey and shows the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Veterans who live in rural and urban areas. The spreadsheet includes variables like: raw numbers, umemployment rate, disability rate, median personal income, age groups, period of service and other variables.</p>

Tags: disability, income, rural, unemployment, urban, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Patient Assessment File (PAF)

<p>The Patient Assessment File (PAF) database compiles the results of the Patient Assessment Instrument (PAI) questionnaire filled out for intermediate care Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients. The PAI is filled out within two weeks of admission. It is also completed semi-annually on April 1st and October 1st for each patient by a registered nurse familiar with the patient. The PAI questions cover medical treatments, conditions, selected diagnoses, activities of daily living, behaviors, some rehabilitation therapies, and chronic respiratory support. The database is managed by the Geriatrics &amp; Extended Care Strategic Health Care Group in the Office of Patient Care Services. It is currently running at the Austin Information Technology Center (AITC) and is stored in flat files. PAF's primary customer is the Allocation Resource Center (ARC) in Braintree MA. The ARC receives the data from AITC and combines it with data from the Patient Treatment File (PTF) which contains more detailed demographic and treatment information. The ARC builds ORACLE tables, assigning RUG II (Resource Utilization Group II) scores and weighted work units reflecting the level and type of care needed. The 16 different weighted work units, ranging from 479 to 1800, are a factor in the resource allocation and budget decisions on long-term care, and are used to measure efficiency. The data is also used in other reports to Central Office, the Veterans Integrated Service Networks, and the facilities. Several other units also use PAF information including the Decision Support System (DSS). Currently, PAF is in the process of being replaced by the Resident Assessment Instrument/Minimum Data Set (RAI/MDS). RAI/MDS uses a much more extensive questionnaire as its source of information. The RAI/MDS provides clinical data and care protocols in addition to the newer RUG III scores, and is required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service funded hospitals.</p>

Tags: assessment, file, instrument, patient, resource, rug, utilization, va, veteran
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veteran Compensation Expenditures By State of Residence and Age Group FY 2024

1.	This provides a count of Veterans on the rolls for Compensation Service in FY 2024 with expenditures for compensation 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 categories containing less than ten Veterans are not included.

Tags: age-groups, disability-compensation, expenditures, veteran-benefits, veteran-population
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
VA National Bed Control System

<p>The VA National Bed Control System records the levels of operating, unavailable and authorized beds at each VAMC, and it tracks requests for changes in these levels. For changes in operating, unavailable and authorized bed levels, the Director of a Medical Center or his/her authorized delegate enters a bed change request into the Bed Control Database. A Bed Control Database trigger automatically notifies the respective Veterans Integrated Support Network (VISN) director. The VISN director's designated staff reviews the request and either approves, disapproves, or cancels it through the Bed Control Database. If a medical center request is approved by the VISN director, a Bed Control Database trigger notifies staff in the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management (10N) to review and take action, followed by the appropriate VHA Program Office and then the Under Secretary for Health. Once a request has been approved, cancelled, or disapproved by either the Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management, VHA Program Office, or the Under Secretary for Health, the medical center director and the appropriate VISN director are automatically notified of the action. The approval process is tracked and visible to the authorized user of the system. When changes are approved, the database updates its bed level information accordingly. Pertinent justification and documents associated with each bed change request are stored in the database.</p>

Tags: authorized, bed, center, hospital, management, medical, patient, va, vamc, veteran, ward
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Utilization Profile FY18 - Fig 10, Percent Users vs Non-Users Distribution by Age Group - Males

Veterans Utilization Profile FY18 - Fig 10, Percent Users vs Non-Users Distribution by Age Group - Males. Data underlying the second 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
2001 National Survey of Veterans (NSV)

<p>The 2001 National Survey of Veterans (NSV) is the fifth in a series of comprehensivenationwide surveys designed to help the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) plan its future programsand services for veterans. The information gathered through these surveys will help VA to identify theneeds of veterans and then allocate resources in ways that will ensure these needs can be met. It also provides a snapshot profile of the veteranpopulation. Data collected through the NSV enables VA to: follow changing trends in the veteranpopulation; compare characteristics of veterans who use VA services with those of veterans who do not;study VAï¿½s role in the delivery of all benefits that veterans receive; and update information about veteransto help the Department develop its policies.</p>

Tags: survey, veterans
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans who used VA Life Insurance Benefits

Life Insurance: All Veterans who had an active VA life insurance policy or were in receipt of a benefit from a policy that was administered or supervised by VA were included. VA insurance programs included in the analysis were National Service Life Insurance (NSLI), United States Government Life Insurance (USGLI), Veterans’ Special Life Insurance (VSLI), Veterans’ Reopened Insurance (VRI), Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance (S-DVI), Veterans’ Mortgage Life Insurance (VMLI), Traumatic Injury Protection (TSGLI), and Veterans’ Group Life Insurance (VGLI). The analysis does not include Service-members’ Group Life Insurance (SGLI) and Family Service-members’ Group Life Insurance (FSGLI). Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) provides Life Insurance.

Tags: life-insurance, veteran, veteran-benefits
Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs