The Emergency Department Integration Software (EDIS) is a VHA-wide application used to track and manage the delivery off care to patients in the Emergency Care System (ECS). This critical IT solution directly supports the Major Initiative 'Enhance the Veteran Experience and Access to Healthcare (EVEAH). EDIS v1.0 is currently being deployed in each VHA hospital and is scheduled for deployment completion by 7/31/2011. The application improves emergency department care by introducing the systematic collection, display and reporting on patient status information. It is able to integrate with Appointment Management and Patient Care Encounter within VistA. EDIS v2.0 is currently being planned and will provide enhancements, better functionality and improved reports.

The Emerging Pathogens Initiative (EPI) database contains emerging pathogens information from the local Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs). The EPI software package allows the VA to track emerging pathogens on the national level without additional data entry at the local level. The results from aggregation of data can be shared with the appropriate public health authorities including non-VA and the private health care sector allowing national planning, formulation of intervention strategies, and resource allocations. EPI is designed to automatically collect data on emerging diseases for Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO) to analyze. The data is sent to the Austin Information Technology Center (AITC) from all Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) systems for initial processing and combination with related workload data. VACO data retrieval and analysis is then carried out. The AITC creates two file structures both in Statistical Analysis Software (SAS) file format, which are used as a source of data for the Veterans Affairs Headquarters (VAHQ) Infectious Diseases Program Office. These files are manipulated and used for analysis and reporting by the National Infectious Diseases Service. Emerging Pathogens (as characterized by VACO) act as triggers for data acquisition activities in the automated program. The system retrieves relevant, predetermined, patient-specific information in the form of a Health Level Seven (HL7) message that is transmitted to the central data repository at the AITC. Once at that location, the data is converted to a SAS dataset for analysis by the VACO National Infectious Diseases Service. Before data transmission an Emerging Pathogens Verification Report is produced for the local sites to review, verify, and make corrections as needed. After data transmission to the AITC it is added to the EPI database.

The Drug Accountability database collects information on medication dispensed to both inpatient and outpatient Veterans who receive health care from the VA. Information for the Drug Accountability database is extracted from a number of files found within the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) environment. Each month the extracted information is sent via MailMan messages from all VistA systems to the VA Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) office in Hines, Illinois. At Hines, quality assurance procedures are performed on the data and local pharmaceutical names are converted to common names before the information is entered into the Drug Accountability database. The users of this database include the PBM, Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs), the Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), and the VA Research community.

NOTE: This dataset is Inactive and is no longer supported. Any historical knowledge regarding meta data or it's creation is no longer available. All known information is proved as part of this data set.

The National Cardiac Device Surveillance Program Database supports the Eastern Pacemaker Surveillance Center (EPSC) staff in its function of monitoring some 11,000 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients who have implanted pacemakers or cardioverters. The database stores medically useful information about the patients and their pacemaker test results in order to highlight serial changes, which determine whether the pacemaker is still functioning normally, or whether the patient requires further intervention. The EPSC staff performs regular telephonic checkups, in conjunction with less frequent in-hospital clinic checkups, to determine when pacemakers need to be replaced. Patients are scheduled and called by the Pacemaker Surveillance Center, and have their electrocardiogram recorded and analyzed over the phone, using wires attached to their fingers and a VHA-supplied transmitter. Additionally, some patients are monitored via web-based downloads of their device telemetry. The Pacemaker Center also provides in-hospital clinic checkups for local Washington DC VHA pacemaker patients. All information obtained during the checkups is recorded in the EPSC Database. The database also contains records of pacemaker patients being monitored by VHA facilities east of the Mississippi and who are not being monitored directly by their respective VA medical centers. The VHA Department of Medical Services encourages local VHA medical centers to refer their patients for pacemaker follow-up monitoring to either the Eastern Surveillance Center or to the counterpart Western Surveillance Center in San Francisco, whichever is geographically appropriate. However, referral is optional. The database also maintains a registry of all VHA patients, living and deceased, who have had pacemakers implanted at, or who have been monitored by, VHA facilities. The EPSC receives information for the registry directly from the medical centers for patients that it does not monitor, totaling over 80,000 as of 2010.

This is a monthly report that the VA Office of Information Technology provides to congress about data incidents that took place during the month (June 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.

This reports shows visibility into the status of projects that comprise VA�s IT development activities.

This is the Department of Veterans Affairs, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Report for Fiscal Year 2009. The report contains metrics on FOIA requests received, processed, and pending by agency/component. It also contains metrics on exemptions, appeals, consultations, response times, and backlogs. Fees collected, fees waived, and FOIA personnel and costs are reported. Comparison of metrics attained for the previous year is also included.

This reports shows a summary level view of projects that comprise VA�s IT development activities.

This is a quarterly notice to congress containing statistics on data breeches for fiscal year 2014 for the first quarter (2014 October 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013). The report contains information about date of the incidents, location of the events, number of notification letters, and number of credit protection letters sent.

This is a monthly report that the VA Office of Information Technology provides to congress about data incidents that took place during the month (May 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.