Health Services Research & Development

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FORUM - Translating research into quality health care for Veterans


In This Issue

Director's Letter

Director's Letter
by David Atkins, M.D., M.P.H., Director, HSR&D

As VA works on solutions that will allow Veterans to use their mobile devices to interact with their health care team, learn about their medical needs, and access tools to help improve their health, it is important to consider the role of research in this fast-changing field...

Commentary

VA Connected Health
by Neil C. Evans, M.D., and Kathleen L. Frisbee, Ph.Dc., M.P.H., Co-Directors, Connected Health, Office of Informatics and Analytics, Veterans Health Administration, VA Central Office, Washington, D.C.

The term connected health refers to technologies that extend the health care relationship beyond the traditional in-person synchronous encounters that for so long have been the centerpiece of patient/provider interactions....

Response to Commentary

Connected Health
by Thomas K. Houston, M.D., M.P.H., FACMI, Timothy P. Hogan, Ph.D., and Lorilei Michaud Richardson, Ph.Dc., M.S., all with the VA eHealth Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), Bedford, Massachusetts

Connected health technologies, or virtual care, constitute a new "Model of Care" for augmenting efficient, safe, high-quality, continuous, coordinated delivery of evidence-based services to Veterans and families. In the prior sentence, "augmenting" is an important word...

Research Highlights

The eHealth Measures Compendium
by Bonnie J. Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, eHealth Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), and HSR&D Center for Comprehensive Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation, Iowa VA Healthcare System, Iowa City, Iowa

eHealth is a multidisciplinary field focused on the delivery or enhancement of health information and health services through information and communication technologies...


Update on VHA TeleICU
by Marta L. Render, M.D., VHA National Program Director for Pulmonary/Critical Care/Sleep Medicine, Cincinnati VA Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Multiple studies have demonstrated mortality reduction in intensive care units (ICUs) that implemented evidence-based practices, improved ICU organization and teamwork, and used a high intensity critical care physician model...


Providing Care Closer to Home: The Role of Virtual Points of Access
by Peter J. Kaboli, M.D., M.S. and Carolyn Turvey, Ph.D., HSR&D Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE) Center, Iowa City VA Healthcare System, Iowa City, Iowa

Ensuring access to health care has been a VA focus and is highlighted in the work of HSR&D through its measurement and interventions to improve access...



Improving Digital Access to Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
by John C. Fortney, Ph.D., and Kathleen M. Grubbs, Ph.D., HSR&D Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research, Mental Health QUERI, South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System, Little Rock, Arkansas

The "population impact" of a treatment depends not only on its clinical effectiveness, but also on the degree to which it reaches the target population ...



Wilt Receives 2014 Under Secretary's Award

Timothy J. Wilt, M.D., M.P.H., is the recipient of the 2014 Under Secretary's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research, the highest honor for a VA health services researcher...