Health Data & Information
Investment ID: 029-555555301
Overview
Program Title
Health Data & Information
Description
Health Data and Information supports the overall health of Veterans by: improving interoperability of health data among department and industry, develop a centralized registry platform to coordinate care, and provide an online environment to manage their healthcare. By sharing health data electronically, Department of Veterans Affairs and participating community care providers are better able to coordinate and improve Veterans' overall quality of care. HDI's overarching goal is to make Veterans' health data consistently available to Department of Veterans Affairs and community care providers at the right time, in a way it is easy for clinicians to use and can be relied on.
Type of Program
Major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Associated Websites
https://veteran.mobilehealth.va.gov/AHBurnPitRegistry/#page/home, https://www.myhealth.va.gov/index.html, http://www.va.gov/BLUEBUTTON/, https://www.va.gov/oei/docs/va-strategic-plan-2022-2028.pdf
Investment Detail
All Health Registries are a critical component in monitoring Veterans' health status and planning patient care. The ability to track the Veteran's information allows health providers to ensure accurate and timely solutions that benefit the Veteran population. The existing Registries ROI is illustrated through support to VA's nationally recognized clinical practices that result in lower development and sustainment costs and higher efficiency and effectiveness of treatment. Prior to the Veterans Integrated Registries Platform (VIRP), the nine Registries were being sustained by the Converged Registry Solution. Beginning in July 2019, those nine Registries will be sustained into one Web Portal system within the Veterans Integrated Platform reducing the cost for sustainment by $1,359,340.57 approximately 1% of the previous sustainment contract. Improved interoperability of inter-Departmental health benefit information should expedite administrative and financial decision-making processes; helping to ensure services are made available to Veterans and family members quickly. It also reduces the cost of delivering care due to more efficient communications. Over 30% of Veterans live in rural areas where a visit to the doctor can be a day-long event. Service members transitioning from Active Duty to Veteran status often undertake several moves, seeing multiple care providers toting a bundle of paperwork. My HealtheVet (MHV) offers many online advantages to both groups plus the Veteran population as a whole. ROI is based on cost avoidance/savings for both visits and cost per visit. Assumptions: secure message (SM) volume: SM/year = 23.25M (1.94M/mo.). RxRefill volume: RxRefill = 20.46M (1.70M/month). Combined total volume/year = approximately 43.71M (3.64M/month). ROI: If 50% of combined SM and RxRefill avoid a visit or contact with treatment at a facility, then approximately 21.86M encounters are avoided. Average cost/visit = $45. Cost avoidance = 21.86M avoided visits * $45 average cost/visit = $983.7M. O&M costs are $7.35M (AWS = 110K monthly {110*12}+6,026,030), making the ROI 133.8 to 1. Quantitative/Qualitative benefits include costs saved by government/Veteran in fewer routine/diagnostic visits; clinicians have more time for non-routine visits; Veterans are empowered by managing their own care and save time by not having to travel to a facility; Veterans order prescriptions using Rx Refill saving trips to the facility; Pharmacy workload shifts to filling Rx s and not answering phones; MHV improves access and perceptions of access, enables more direct communication, and enhance relationships between Veterans and VA healthcare team.