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Data Issues Brief - 2002 Headlines

  1. VHA Issues Notice on Sharing Rehabilitation Data
  2. Research Representatives Helping Draft HIPAA-Required Notice
  3. New HIPAA Guidance Released
  4. Issue 2 of HDR Newsletter
  5. New Clinical Practice Guidelines Database
  1. NPCD / PTF Medical SAS Datasets Closed For Fiscal Year 2002
  2. HERC Launches New Intranet Web Site
  3. New Database Research Opportunity
  4. NIH Creates 11 Specialized Centers of Research
  5. Latest Issue of VIReC Insights Published
  1. AMA/AHRQ Forum on Clinical Quality Improvement
  2. New Summary Reports of DSS National Extract Data Available
  3. New Web Site for DSS Program Office
  4. VHA Medical Care Co-payments Summarized
  5. VA Represented Among Top Innovators in Health Care IT
  6. Study Compared VA Administrative vs. Self-Reported Race/Ethnicity Data
  7. Name Change: Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy
  8. Comparing Diagnostic Cost Groups and Concurrent Utilization
  9. New Adjusted Clinical Group SAS Datasets Now Available at the Austin Automation Center
  1. CDC Publishes Abstract Statistics as Part of NHDS Extension Notice
  2. HHS releases Final Privacy Rules
  3. Latest issue of VIREC Insights is released
  1. OI HIPAA Workgroups
  2. Office of Information Releases HDR / CPRS-R Monthly Newsletter
  3. VHA Data on Hospice and Palliative Care
  4. New Databases Available for Purchase from AHRQ
  1. AHSRHP HSR Methods Workshop: Using Federal and State Databases
  2. Publication Focuses on Federal and State Databases
  3. AHRQ Inaugurates Grants On-Line Database (GOLD)
  1. FY2002 Medical SAS Datasets Reflect New VISN
  2. VHA Handbook for Coding Guidelines Updated
  3. AAC Customer Information Guide Gives Current Contacts
  4. End of Fiscal Year 2001 VA Site Tracking Report
  5. OI Race and Ethnicity Project Approved for Implementation
  6. Nurse Researchers To Meet As New Affiliate Group at AHSRHP
  1. VHA CIO Welcomes Researchers’ Comments on the Health Data Repository Scope of Work
  2. CFD (formerly: AAC) Recreates Medical SAS Outpatient Event Datasets Due To Creation Error
  3. Implementation of VHA National Hepatitis C Case Registry
  4. New Directive Contains Definitions for VHA Ambulatory Care Data
  5. The VA Medical Information Security Service Restructured
  1. Publication of Proposed Changes to HIPAA Privacy Standards
  2. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Privacy Office Provides Tools in Determining HIPAA Compliance
  3. The VA Information Technology Conference (ITC) August 2002 Cancelled
  4. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Releases New Data Warehouse
  5. New Variables added to the VA Medical SAS Outpatient Datasets
  6. Upcoming Research Meetings:
  1. VHA Office of Information: Data Standardization
  2. VHA Office of Information/VHA Employee Education System: Camp CPRS 2002
  3. US Census 2000 Data Available
  4. NIH Draft Statement on Sharing Research Data
  1. Agent Orange Exposure Variables Changed in the Medical SAS Outpatient Datasets
  2. AHRQ Releases 1998 Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database
  3. American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting & Exposition Abstract deadline
  4. Update on the VA Medicare Data Merge Initiative
  1. Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy (AHSRHP) Annual Meeting Abstract Deadline January 15
  2. New Audit Trail of Changes in NPCD files and Medical SAS Now Available at Austin Automation Center
  3. Resource for Computer Security post-September 11, 2001