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Data Issues Brief - 2004 Headlines
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- Medical SAS Datasets Final for FY2003
- New Variable Labels and Formats In SF and SE Files
- Report Issued on Survey of VHA Intensive Care Units
- HDR / Data Standardization News
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- FY2005 DSS Identifiers and Three-Tier Co-payment Rates for Outpatient Services
- Directive on “VHA Site Tracking (VAST) System”
- VHA Issues Operating Procedures for Use of VA Medicare Data
- Fact Sheets on HealtheVet and MyHealtheVet
- New Issue of “Data Warehouse/Data Marts Newsletter”
- New Issue of “DSS Matters” Newsletter
- AcademyHealth Issues Call for Abstracts
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- Closeout of FY2004 Medical SAS Datasets
- Data Quality Issues Related to Period of Service (POS) Variable
- VA Medicare Data for Research Available for 2002
- VHA Office of Information Project Will Improve Data on Date of Death
- New Email Addresses for VIReC, VIReC Help Desk, and Staff Members
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- VIReC Web Site Changed
- Latest Report From Gulf War Veterans Information System
- October 6-8, 2004, Workshop on Using Medicare Data for Research
- New Cyber Seminars from ERIC Summer 2004 Course
- VIReC Web Site Has Proc Contents for VHA Medical SAS® Datasets
- August-September Issue of DSS Matters
- DSS FY05 Technical Conversion Guidelines Handbook Released
- Analysis of VistA Laboratory Application
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- Procedures for Collecting New Data, Including Race and Ethnicity
- New VHA Data on Combat Veterans
- VIReC Research User Guide to DSS Clinical National Data Extracts
- New Navigation Being Tested For VIReC Web Site
- Self-reported Height and Weight Data for Veterans from CDC
- AHRQ-Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 2002 Nationwide Inpatient Sample Data
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- Select Variable Frequencies for FY2003 Medical SAS Data on Web
- FY2004 DSS National Data Extracts Technical Guidebook Released
- New Stroke QUERI Web Site
- New Advisory Board Replaces DSS National Steering Committee
- New Version of Clinical Reminders Software
- QUERI Papers in Journal of American Medical Informatics Association
- VA Organizational Briefing Book Online
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- HIPAA Privacy Issues For Researchers Requesting Date or Confirmation of Death
- SAS® Proc Contents for VA Data at CFD (formerly: AAC)
Now Online
- VA Health Care Atlas on Internet
- Two New VHA Handbooks of Interest to Researchers
- News About VA Information Technology Conference
- Presentations from VA eHealth University (Formerly Camp CPRS) Online
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- New Listing of SAS® Files at Austin Automation Center
- Policy Issued on Defining and Recording Observation Patients
- VHA Data Quality Information Online
- “Registry Research and Medical Privacy”
- Focus on Outcomes Research
- Spring Issue of HDR / CPRS-R Newsletter
- Federal Agencies Focus on Health Information Technology
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- Estimates & Projections of Veteran Dementia Prevalence and Incidence
- 2004 Corporate Databases Monograph Issued
- VIReC Becomes Member of VHA Data Consortium
- Course on “VA Databases for Research” at Seattle ERIC Summer Session
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- FY2003 & FY2004 Medical SAS Datasets Missing Race & Ethnicity Data
- VIReC Exploring Options For Researchers Needing Data on Race
- New Office of Research & Development Contact for Real SSN Access
- Financial and Clinical Data Marts (FCDM) Open For Business
- VIReC Beta Testing Redesigned Web Site
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- DSS Medical Records Technical Documentation Manual
- DSS SAS National Laboratory Results Data To Be Available for FY2001
- New HIPAA Privacy Rule Information for Clinical Researchers
- AMIA Conference on Implementation of Electronic Medical Records
- VA InfoSec Conference June 21, 2004
- New Details About VA Information Technology Conference August 9-12, 2004
- 2003 National QUERI Meeting Presentations Addressing Data and Informatics Issues
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- Latest Issue of VA Decision Support System’s Newsletter DSS Matters
- VHA 2004 eHealth University Annual Conference Scheduled May 24–28, 2004, in Dallas, TX
- VA Information Technology Conference August 9-12, 2004, Austin, TX
- ResDAC To Hold Medicare and Medicaid Data Training in Tampa FL
- DHHS/AHRQ Issues National Reports on Healthcare Quality and Disparity
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