U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) Announces 26 Winning Ideas for Health IT Competition

[CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight]

Colleagues,

The U.S. VA, and particularly its VISTA Electronic Health Record (EFR) system, are highly regarded ...

... See below 26 winners from their recent "CrowdSourcing" competition to identify new, high impact Health IT innovations, going forward ...  We can all probably listen and learn from these excellent developer/consumers of health information architecture ...

ENJOY!

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As reported in Healthcare IT News ... 26 health IT ideas, out of the 6,500 entered in the VA Innovation Competition, will be used to improve care for Veterans...

The 26 Winning Innovations are:

• Reducing healthcare associated infections using informatics
• CPRS (Computerized Patient Record System) -based automated queries and reports
• Robust VA forms search engine
• Augment CPRS with standards-based decision support engine
• Enhanced care management to facilitate case management and chronic disease care
• Integration of behavioral health lab and CPRS for mental health primary care
• E-discharge pilot program
• Show patient picture in CPRS
• CPRS enhancement for veteran-centered care
• "Parking" outpatient prescriptions to prevent waste
• Suicide hotline: be a hero, save a hero
• Touch screen device support for nursing triage of patients
• Tools for front line veteran eligibility staffing
• VA-wide core collection of knowledge based information resources
• Integrate VistA surgery package with CPRS
• Illustrated medication instructions for veterans
• Share verified insurance info via use of the master patient index
• Veteran online tracking of mail prescription delivery
• Search function in CPRS
• Accessible contact information for all assigned care providers
• Online radiology protocoling tool integrated within CPRS/VistA
• Wireless voice communications with hands free options
• Improved access to military personnel records
• Brief resident supervision index
• Emergency medical response team communication
• Reduce unnecessary/duplicate lab tests by rules-based algorithms

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