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HSR&D Resource Centers
HSR&D provides core funding to three Resource Centers that support HSR&D management and the COEs by providing data, consultation, and focused research on management issues, health economics and systems.
Health Economics Resource Center (HERC), Menlo Park, CA
Center Focus:
- Documentation and evaluation of VA economic data bases, including Decision Support System national data extracts, and data on contract, pharmacy, prosthetics and other cost data.
- Creation of new VA economics data, including a comprehensive estimate of the cost of all VA health care encounters.
- Courses and seminars. HERC provides courses in cost-effectivness analysis and econometric methods, and coordinates a monthly health economics Cyberseminar.
- Economic consulting service. HERC provides VA economic researchers with expert advice on economic methods.
Contact
Paul G. Barnett, PhD
(650) 617-2630;
email: herc@va.gov
web site: http://www.herc.research.va.gov
VA Information Resource Center (VIREC), Hines, IL
Center Focus:
- Support VA researchers using databases and informatics by creating a knowledge base of factual and evaluative information about VA and select non-VA data
- Disseminate information via Help Desk, publications, Web site, research user guides to select data sources, HSRData Listserv
- Represent the interests of VA researchers using databases and information systems through formal and informal liaison within VA and with other health care agencies and organizations
Contact
Denise M. Hynes, PhD
(708) 202-2413;
email: denise.hynes@va.gov
web site: http://www.virec.research.va.gov/
Center for Information Dissemination and Education Resources, Boston, MA
Center Focus
- Developing publications and managing HSR&D national dissemination efforts;
- Managing the national HSR&D and QUERI websites;
- Planning and facilitating meetings and conferences, including HSR&D and QUERI national meetings and state-of-the-art conferences;
- Coordinating HSR&D cyber seminars; and
- Developing HSR&D contributions to R&D publications and other VA and non-VA publications and products.
Contact
Geraldine McGlynn, MEd
(617) 232-9500, ext. 44944
email: geraldine.mcglynn@va.gov
web site: http://www.cider.research.va.gov/
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