AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Accelerating Access to Care Initiative - Report 2014 June 19

<p>VA is posting regular data updates showing progress on its efforts to accelerate access to quality health care for Veterans who have been waiting for appointments. These access data updates will be posted at the middle and end of each month at VA.gov. The facility-level data show the current status of VA's: 1) New Enrollee Appointment Request (NEAR) List: The total number of newly enrolled Veterans that have asked for an appointment during the enrollment process.  Out of an abundance of caution, VA reviewed the NEAR data from the past decade to identify any individual who:  has enrolled for care since the inception of enrollment,  indicated they desired an appointment on the enrollment form, and has not yet had a scheduled appointment in the VHA health care system. 2) Electronic Wait List (EWL) Count: The total number of all new patients (those who have not been seen in the specific clinic in the previous 24 months) for whom appointments cannot be scheduled in 90 days or less; and 3) Total Appointments Scheduled: Every appointment scheduled at the facility except surgery and medical procedures.</p>
USA SPENDING C&P B104 PENSION FOR NON-SERVICE CONNECTED FOR VETERANS APR2019

<p>VBA BENEFIT PROGRAM to assist wartime veterans in need whose non-service- connected disabilities are permanent and total preventing them from following a substantially gainful occupation. A Veteran who meets the wartime service requirements is potential eligible if he/she is: • permanently and totally disabled for reasons not necessarily due to service, • age 65 or older, or • is presumed to be totally and permanently disabled for pension purposes because: o he/she is a patient in a nursing home for long-term care due to a disability, or o being disabled, as determined by the Commissioner of Social Security (SS) for purposes of any benefits administered by the Commissioner, such as SS disability benefits or Supplemental Security Income. Income restrictions are prescribed in 38 U.S.C. 1521. Pension is not payable to those whose estates are so large that it is reasonable they use the estate for maintenance. A Veteran meets wartime service requirements if he/she served: • a total of 90 days or more during one or more periods of war; • 90 or more consecutive days that began or ended during a period of war; or • for any length of time during a period of war if he/she was discharged or released for a service-connected disability. Veterans entering service after September 7, 1980, must also meet the minimum active duty requirement of 24 months of continuous service or the full period to which the Veteran was called to active duty. (38 U.S.C.5303(A)).</p>
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 4-30-11.  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>
USA SPENDING C&P B110 SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE MAR2019

<p>VBA BENEFIT PROGRAM to provide educational opportunities to the dependents of certain disabled and deceased veterans. Spouses, surviving spouses, and children (including stepchild or adopted child) between age 18 and 26 of veterans who died from service-connected disabilities, of living veterans whose service-connected disabilities are considered permanently and totally disabling, of those who died from any cause while such service-connected disabilities were in existence, of servicepersons who have been listed for a total of more than 90 days as currently missing in action, or as currently prisoners of war, a service member who VA determines has a service connected permanent and total disability and at the time of VA's determination is a member of the Armed Forces who is hospitalized or receiving outpatient medical care, services, or treatment; and is likely to be discharged or released from service for this service-connected disability. Children under the age of 18 may be eligible under special circumstances.</p>
USA SPENDING CH39 B100 AUTOMOBILE AND ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT ALLOWANCE FY2019

<p>VBA PROGRAM BENEFITS for Automobiles and Adaptive Equipment for Certain Disabled Veterans and Members of the Armed Forces. Veterans with honorable service and servicepersons on duty having a service-connected disability due to loss or permanent loss of use of one or both feet, one or both hands, or a permanent impairment of vision of both eyes to a prescribed degree. For adaptive equipment only, eligibility also exists if there is service-connected ankylosis of one or both knees or one or both hips. Personnel on active duty also qualify under the same criteria as veterans. Uses &amp; Use Restrictions:  Assistance toward purchase of an automobile or other conveyance is a one-time payment only. Necessary adaptive equipment may be furnished, repaired, replaced, or reinstalled on a conveyance which may be purchased with assistance or any other conveyance subsequently or previously acquired. Adaptive equipment will be provided for no more than two conveyances during any four-year period unless one of those two vehicles becomes unavailable to the veteran.</p>
Medical Care Cost Recovery National Database (MCCR NDB)

<p>The Medical Care Cost Recovery National Database (MCCR NDB) provides a repository of summary Medical Care Collections Fund (MCCF) billing and collection information used by program management to compare facility performance. It stores summary information for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) receivables including the number of receivables and their summarized status information. This database is used to monitor the status of the VHA's collection process and to provide visibility on the types of bills and collections being done by the Department. The objective of the VA MCCF Program is to collect reimbursement from third party health insurers and co-payments from certain non-service-connected (NSC) Veterans for the cost of medical care furnished to Veterans.  Legislation has authorized VHA to: submit claims to and recover payments from Veterans' third party health insurance carriers for treatment of non-service-connected conditions; recover co-payments from certain Veterans for treatment of non-service-connected conditions; and recover co-payments for medications from certain Veterans for treatment of non-service-connected conditions. All of the information captured in the MCCR NDB is derived from the Accounts Receivable (AR) modules running at each medical center. MCCR NDB is not used for official collections figures; instead, the Department uses the Financial Management System (FMS).</p>
Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW)

<p>The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is increasingly dependent upon data.  Most of its employees generate and use vast amounts of data on a daily basis.  To improve our capacity for data analysis while providing the most efficient and the highest quality health care to our Veteran patients, VHA, working with the VA Office of Information and Technology, implemented a health data warehouse.  Central to this plan is consolidating data from disparate sources into a coherent single logical data model.  The Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) is the physical implementation of this logical data model at the enterprise level for VHA.   Although the CDW initially began to store data as early as 2006, a renewed effort began in 2010 to accelerate CDW's content by including more subject areas from Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) and content from other existing national data systems.  CDW supports fully developed subject areas in its production environment as well as supporting rapid prototyping by extracting data directly from source systems with very minor data transformations.  The Regional Data Warehouses and the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) Data Warehouses share content from CDW and allow for greater reporting flexibility at the local level throughout the VHA organization.</p>
Community Nursing Home (CNH)

<p>The Community Nursing Home (CNH) database contains a list of all Community Nursing Home facilities under local contract to Veterans Health Administration (VHA). CNH facilities are not managed by VA. Instead, CNH facilities are private or public facilities licensed by the state where they provide the patient services. Each day all Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) that have a contract with a CNH enter information about the CNH into the Fee Basis module of Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture. This information is sent via MailMan to the VA Austin Information Technology Center where it is collected in a queue. A quarterly batch process is run on the queue. VAMCs that have sent invalid data or VAMCs that have contracts and did not send data are notified. Valid data is processed and used to update the database. Quarterly reports are sent to the CNHs, VAMCs, Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), Geriatrics &amp; Extended Care Strategic Health Care Group, and VA Central Office (VACO).</p>
VA Veteran Home Loan Guaranty -- VBA LGY 2024

1. This provides a count of VA guaranteed Veteran home loans and loan amounts by state and period of service or entitlement in FY 2024.
2. See VBA's Annual Benefits Report for additional information: www.benefits.va.gov/REPORTS/abr/
3. To protect Veteran privacy any count categories consisting of fewer than ten Veterans are not included.
Department of Veterans Affairs - Monthly Report to Congress of Data Incidents (April 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 (April 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>
FY12 Use of VA Education Benefits by Training Type & VA Education Benefit Program

<p>Education Recipients by training type and VA Education Benefit Program (By fiscal year). The data represents the number of individuals by VA education program who have used their VA education benefit during fiscal year.   Training type statistics may include individuals who used their education benefits in more than one training type, therefore the total within this table may be different than the total number of beneficiaries during the fiscal year.</p>
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 12-31-11.  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>
Non-VA Care Medical System (Fee)

<p>The Non-VA Care Medical and Pharmacy System (FEE) automates the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Fee for Service program. It authorizes and pays private physicians, hospitals, and pharmacists for products and services provided to Veterans approved for the program. Veterans are reimbursed through VistA Fee for medically-related expenses including travel. Information is entered into the VistA Fee system through Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) online menus. VistA Fee is run at the Austin Information Technology Center and interfaces with the Financial Management System (FMS), the Beneficiary Identification and Records Locator System (BIRLS), and the VHA Work Measurement database (VWM), to produce payments, accounting updates, and reports. VistA Fee facilitates money management, master record updating, and input error resolution. Daily reports indicating all payments processed and erroneous input transactions are transmitted to approximately 170 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs). Letters are sent to Veterans on a monthly basis detailing payments made on their behalf to Non-VA Care Service providers. Monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports are sent to the Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO) and VAMCs. The Non-VA Care Fee Basis Medical System is commonly referred to as Central FEE.</p>
Gulf War Registry (GWR) - The Post-Deployment Health Strategic Healthcare Group (PDHSHG) Registry System of Records

<p>The Post-Deployment Health Strategic Healthcare Group (PDHSHG) Registry System of Records is the information system encompassing the Ionizing Radiation Registry (IRR), the Agent Orange Registry (AOR), and the Gulf War Registry (GWR) which also includes related Depleted Uranium (DU) exams.</p>
AHRQ Report and Data Files (2020): Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Update)

The PTSD-Repository is a comprehensive database of PTSD trials. The PTSD-Repository allows clinical, research, education, and policy stakeholders to understand current research on treatment effectiveness and harms, and enable informed decisions about future research, mental health policy, and clinical care priorities. This report updates the studies and variables included in the PTSD-Repository to include recently published trials, interventions targeting comorbid PTSD/SUD (substance use disorder), variables related to comorbidities such as suicide and SUDs, and risk of bias (ROB) assessment.

The Comparative Effectiveness Review (Update Report) and Evidence Tables (Appendix E, F-1, & G-1) are included in the downloadable .zip file. For more information, visit AHRQ's page, and open the "Previous Versions" tab: https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/ptsd-pharm-non-pharm-treatment/research
VHA Leadership and Workforce Development System (VHALWD (Prior Executive Information System (EIS)))

<p>The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Leadership and Workforce Development System (VHALWD) has 36 separate databases that contain information on people, positions, and organizations, work groups, workforce, workforce and leadership classes, workforce development programs and participation, personal development plans, supervisory levels, mentor and coach attributes, High Performance Development Model (HPDM) core competency, intern data, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) reporting, succession planning, workforce planning, senior executive information, applicant tracking and recruitment, Executive Career Field (ECF) position and performance information, and education funding and programs. The VHA Executive Management Program consists of the functions that fall under the purview of the VHA Executive Resources Board (ERB) and the VHA Performance Review Board (PRB). Their functions include executive development, recruitment and placement, organizational analysis, succession planning, workforce planning, EEO and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) assessment, workload tracking and reporting of human capital and HR, and individual and organizational performance assessment and recognition. The method used to collect this information is a proprietary system using relational database technology. Information from these databases are joined and expanded to inform programs and processes. This combination of information is used in the administration of talent management, VHA human capital objectives, and in the support of the ERB and PRB functions.</p>
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.
Synthetic Cohort for VHA Innovation Ecosystem and precisionFDA COVID-19 Risk Factor Modeling Challenge

The dataset is a synthetic cohort for use for the VHA Innovation Ecosystem and precisionFDA COVID-19 Risk Factor Modeling Challenge. The dataset was generated using Synthea, a tool created by MITRE to generate synthetic electronic health records (EHRs) from curated care maps and publicly available statistics. This dataset represents 147,451 patients developed using the COVID-19 module. The dataset format conforms to the CSV file outputs. Below are links to all relevant information.

PrecisionFDA Challenge: https://precision.fda.gov/challenges/11
Synthea hompage: https://synthetichealth.github.io/synthea/
Synethea GitHub repository: https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea
Synthea COVID-19 Module publication: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7531559/
CSV File Format Data Dictionary: https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/wiki/CSV-File-Data-Dictionary
Accelerating Access to Care Initiative Pending Appointments - Report 2015 October 15

<p>VA is posting regular data updates showing progress on its efforts to accelerate access to quality health care for Veterans who have been waiting for appointments. These access data updates will be posted at the middle and end of each month at VA.gov. The facility-level data show the current status of VA's: 1) New Enrollee Appointment Request (NEAR) List: The total number of newly enrolled Veterans that have asked for an appointment during the enrollment process.  Out of an abundance of caution, VA reviewed the NEAR data from the past decade to identify any individual who:  has enrolled for care since the inception of enrollment,  indicated they desired an appointment on the enrollment form, and has not yet had a scheduled appointment in the VHA health care system. 2) Electronic Wait List (EWL) Count: The total number of all new patients (those who have not been seen in the specific clinic in the previous 24 months) for whom appointments cannot be scheduled in 90 days or less; and 3) Total Appointments Scheduled: Every appointment scheduled at the facility except surgery and medical procedures.  The term 'pending' has replaced the term 'prospective,' which predicts the availability of scheduled appointments in the future for new Veterans on a given date, and the term 'completed' replaced the term 'retrospective,' which indicates when appointments actually occurred.</p>
Veterans Health Administration 2008 Hospital Report Card - Hospital Accreditation

<p>Report to the Appropriations Committee of the United States House of Representatives in Response to Conference Committee Report to PL 110-186.  In an effort to provide a snapshot of the quality of care provided at VA health care facilities, this report includes information about waiting times, staffing level, infection rates, surgical volumes, quality measures, patient satisfaction, service availability and complexity, accreditation status, and patient safety. The data in this report have been drawn from multiple sources across VHA.  This dataset identifies whether the facility has Joint Commission Accrediation and/or CARF Accreditation.</p>
Accelerating Access to Care Initiative Pending Appointments - Report 2015 September 15

<p>VA is posting regular data updates showing progress on its efforts to accelerate access to quality health care for Veterans who have been waiting for appointments. These access data updates will be posted at the middle and end of each month at VA.gov. The facility-level data show the current status of VA's: 1) New Enrollee Appointment Request (NEAR) List: The total number of newly enrolled Veterans that have asked for an appointment during the enrollment process.  Out of an abundance of caution, VA reviewed the NEAR data from the past decade to identify any individual who:  has enrolled for care since the inception of enrollment,  indicated they desired an appointment on the enrollment form, and has not yet had a scheduled appointment in the VHA health care system. 2) Electronic Wait List (EWL) Count: The total number of all new patients (those who have not been seen in the specific clinic in the previous 24 months) for whom appointments cannot be scheduled in 90 days or less; and 3) Total Appointments Scheduled: Every appointment scheduled at the facility except surgery and medical procedures.  The term 'pending' has replaced the term 'prospective,' which predicts the availability of scheduled appointments in the future for new Veterans on a given date, and the term 'completed' replaced the term 'retrospective,' which indicates when appointments actually occurred.</p>
USA SPENDING C&P BURIAL B101 VETERANS CEMETARY GRANTS PROGRAM NOV2018

<p>VBA BENEFIT PROGRAM to assist States and federally recognized tribal governments in the establishment, expansion, and improvement of veterans' cemeteries. Monetary assistance is provided under this program to establish, expand, and improve State or Tribal government veterans’ cemeteries. Cemeteries must be State or Tribal Government owned and operated solely for the interment of eligible veterans and their dependents and/or spouses. Construction cost means the amount found necessary to convert a tract of land to an operational cemetery. The cemetery must be used solely for the interment of veterans, their wives, husbands, surviving spouses, minor children, and unmarried adult children who were physically or mentally disabled and incapable of self-support: section 38 CFR Part 38.620.</p>
FY 2021 Pension Recipients by State

This report provides state-level estimates of the number of Veterans who received VA Pension benefits during fiscal year 2021. It includes the Veterans’ sex. Blank values represent small cell counts that have been suppressed to protect the identity of Veterans. Some categories may not sum to the total due to missing information (e.g., sex, etc.).

Source: Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Enterprise Integration, United States Veterans Eligibility Trends & Statistics (USVETS) 2021 and Veterans Benefits Administration VETSNET FY 2021 pension data.

Prepared by National Center for Veterans Analysis & Statistics, www.va.gov/vetdata.