Evaluation of VLER-Indiana Health Information Exchange Demonstration Project (VLER-IHIE)
14 maj 2019 uppdaterad av: VA Office of Research and Development
Evaluation of VLER_Indiana Health Information Exchange Demonstration Project
Three out of four Veterans receive a portion of their care from non-VA providers. On April 9, 2009, President Barack Obama directed the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to create the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER). On August 2010, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki visited Indianapolis, and after visiting with leaders from the VA Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) Center of Excellence and the Regenstrief Institute, he made the following public comments regarding the latest partnership between the two institutions: "This new technology allows safer, more secure, and private access to electronic health information which, in turn, enhances our ability to continue providing Veterans with the quality care that they have earned."
This new technology refers to the VLER HEALTH program that the Indianapolis VA is now implementing in partnership with the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE). This VA-IHIE demonstration project is intended to create the capacity for VA institutions to exchange health information with community partners.
Investigators from the VA HSR&D Center on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice are active collaborators in building and implementing this program. The VA-IHIE program provides the bi-directional exchange of health information between VA and non-VA providers. Based on our pilot study of linked VA-IHIE data, investigators are conducting an evaluation of the impact of the VA-IHIE demonstration project upon health care quality and cost of Veterans by taking advantage of the initiation of the implementation as a natural experiment.
Studieöversikt
Status
Avslutad
Betingelser
Intervention / Behandling
Detaljerad beskrivning
This study will perform a pre-post evaluation of the VA-IHIE implementation, with a concurrent control group, among Veterans seen at the Indianapolis VA.
Data on care received by Veterans will be obtained for one year before, and one year after, VA-IHIE enrollment.
Patients will be recruited into the VA-IHIE program in a rolling manner over the course of a year, and thus will have different calendar intervals of follow-up.
For purposes of evaluation, investigators will approach the VA-IHIE implementation as a patient-directed intervention given that additional information available from the exchange is available only on a patient-by-patient basis, i.e., a provider cannot use exchange information available for one patient in the care of another.
Although the VA-IHIE program will be implemented at the site level, patients will be enrolled individually.
Studietyp
Observationell
Inskrivning (Faktisk)
57073
Kontakter och platser
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Studieorter
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Indiana
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Indianapolis, Indiana, Förenta staterna, 46202-2884
- Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN
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Deltagandekriterier
Forskare letar efter personer som passar en viss beskrivning, så kallade behörighetskriterier. Några exempel på dessa kriterier är en persons allmänna hälsotillstånd eller tidigare behandlingar.
Urvalskriterier
Åldrar som är berättigade till studier
- Barn
- Vuxen
- Äldre vuxen
Tar emot friska volontärer
Nej
Kön som är behöriga för studier
Allt
Testmetod
Icke-sannolikhetsprov
Studera befolkning
Veteran's receiving care at the Indianapolis VAMC
Beskrivning
Inclusion Criteria:
- Veteran's receiving care at the Indianapolis VAMC at least one year prior and one year post VA-IHIE enrollment
- Veteran's receiving care from a facility other than the Indianapolis VAMC one year prior and one year post VA-IHIE enrollment
Exclusion Criteria:
None
Studieplan
Det här avsnittet ger detaljer om studieplanen, inklusive hur studien är utformad och vad studien mäter.
Hur är studien utformad?
Designdetaljer
- Observationsmodeller: Kohort
- Tidsperspektiv: Retrospektiv
Kohorter och interventioner
Grupp / Kohort |
Intervention / Behandling |
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No Exchange
Patients in this arm will represent Veterans seen at the Indianapolis VA Medical Center (VAMC) for whom information exchange has not been activated.
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Patients not selecting to share data
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Enrolled in Exchange
Patients in this arm will represent Veterans seen at the Indianapolis VAMC for whom information exchange has been activated by the patient choosing to "opt-in."
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Patients selected to share data between the VA & external healthcare agencies.
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Vad mäter studien?
Primära resultatmått
Resultatmått |
Åtgärdsbeskrivning |
Tidsram |
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Understanding Utilization of Healthcare Procedures by Veterans According to Source of Data
Tidsram: 2 years
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Determining rates of usage of healthcare by veterans by source of data.
This will clue us into any differences in utilization patterns between groups.
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2 years
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Effect of Health Information Exchange on Cost
Tidsram: 2 Years
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Before after analysis of the presence of health information exchange on costs within the VA healthcare system; Measure is cost, unadjusted, in dollars for the year post enrollment in the health information exchange
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2 Years
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Health Care Quality: Affect of HIE on LDL Levels of Participants.
Tidsram: 3 years
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This study will measure the impact of HIE upon health care quality the underuse of ambulatory care services for diabetics.
Measurements of underuse before and after implementation will detect improvements in the quality of care.
To measure underuse, the study employs a measurement set that is sensitive to the potential effects and feasible for electronic data capture.
In this specific instance, we expect the LDL levels to reflect lower numbers among diabetics due to greater health management via information sharing.
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3 years
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Sekundära resultatmått
Resultatmått |
Åtgärdsbeskrivning |
Tidsram |
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Health Care Quality: Care Sensitive Admissions
Tidsram: 3 years
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This study will use the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI) to calculate the outcome measure.
The PQIs are a set of measures used with hospital inpatient data to identify ambulatory care sensitive conditions.
The PQIs consist of 14 conditions.
The study will adopt 12 that are commonly used for adult patients: angina, asthma, bacterial pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, dehydration, diabetes long-term complications, diabetes short-term complications, diabetes uncontrolled, hypertension, lower-limb amputation among diabetes patients, and urinary infection.
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3 years
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Samarbetspartners och utredare
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Samarbetspartners
Utredare
- Huvudutredare: David A Haggstrom, MD, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN
Publikationer och användbara länkar
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Allmänna publikationer
- Dixon BE, Haggstrom DA, Weiner M. Implications for informatics given expanding access to care for Veterans and other populations. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Jul;22(4):917-20. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocv019. Epub 2015 Mar 31.
- Kho AN, Cashy JP, Jackson KL, Pah AR, Goel S, Boehnke J, Humphries JE, Kominers SD, Hota BN, Sims SA, Malin BA, French DD, Walunas TL, Meltzer DO, Kaleba EO, Jones RC, Galanter WL. Design and implementation of a privacy preserving electronic health record linkage tool in Chicago. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Sep;22(5):1072-80. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocv038. Epub 2015 Jun 23.
- French DD, Margo CE, Campbell RR. Enhancing postmarketing surveillance: continuing challenges. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2015 Oct;80(4):615-7. doi: 10.1111/bcp.12658. Epub 2015 Jun 1. No abstract available.
- Byrne C, Hunolt E, Bouhaddou O, Pan E, Botts NE, Mercincavage L, Olinger L, Banty K, Bennett J, Weiner M, Haggstrom DA, Cromwell T. Performance evaluation framework for the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) health information exchange pilot program. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium. 2013 Nov 16; 1(1):162.
- Dixon BE, Miller T, Overhage JM. Barriers to achieving the last mile in health information exchange: A survey of small hospitals and physician practices. Jounal of Healthcare Information Management. 2013 Oct 3; 27(4):53-58.
- French DD, Dixon BE, Perkins SM, Myers LJ, Weiner M, Zillich AJ, Haggstrom DA. Short-Term Medical Costs of a VHA Health Information Exchange: A CHEERS-Compliant Article. Medicine (Baltimore). 2016 Jan;95(2):e2481. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000002481.
- Dixon BE, Ofner S, Perkins SM, Myers LJ, Rosenman MB, Zillich AJ, French DD, Weiner M, Haggstrom DA. Which veterans enroll in a VA health information exchange program? J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 Jan;24(1):96-105. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocw058. Epub 2016 Jun 6.
- Dixon BE, Barboza K, Jensen AE, Bennett KJ, Sherman SE, Schwartz MD. Measuring Practicing Clinicians' Information Literacy. An Exploratory Analysis in the Context of Panel Management. Appl Clin Inform. 2017 Feb 15;8(1):149-161. doi: 10.4338/ACI-2016-06-RA-0083.
- Nguyen KA, Haggstrom DA, Ofner S, Perkins SM, French DD, Myers LJ, Rosenman M, Weiner M, Dixon BE, Zillich AJ. Medication Use among Veterans across Health Care Systems. Appl Clin Inform. 2017 Mar 8;8(1):235-249. doi: 10.4338/ACI-2016-10-RA-0184.
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Studera stora datum
Studiestart
1 december 2012
Primärt slutförande (Faktisk)
1 juni 2015
Avslutad studie (Faktisk)
1 januari 2016
Studieregistreringsdatum
Först inskickad
27 april 2011
Först inskickad som uppfyllde QC-kriterierna
4 oktober 2011
Första postat (Uppskatta)
5 oktober 2011
Uppdateringar av studier
Senaste uppdatering publicerad (Faktisk)
16 maj 2019
Senaste inskickade uppdateringen som uppfyllde QC-kriterierna
14 maj 2019
Senast verifierad
1 maj 2019
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