Dive Brief:
- The VA has awarded a $5 million grant to four projects using existing VA EHRs to apply precision monitoring to transform care. The participants will collaborate on the five-year multi-site Precision Monitoring (PRIS-M) program.
- Projects will occur at various locations, including EDs, inpatient and outpatient units for various medical conditions. The technical aspects of precision monitoring as well as how monitoring improvements can provide information to providers will be studied.
- The four projects include the nationwide implementation of electronic quality indicators for inpatient stroke care, use of telehealth and patient-specific data to improve care for veterans with transient ischemic attack, remote monitoring of continuous positive airway pressure for patients with sleep apnea, and reduction of inappropriate carotid artery imaging orders.
Dive Insight:
The partcipants include the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis, the Regenstrief Institute, and the Indiana University School of Medicine.
"The VA is the single largest provider of healthcare in the United States with a wealth of patient information and a single unified EHR," Dr. Linda S. Williams, co-principal investigator of the new program and professor of neurology at the Indiana Univeristy School of Medicine, said in a press release. "The potential impact of our study is vast. I believe what we are dealing with in the VA is similar to what other healthcare systems will encounter as they move forward to meet new government regulations and envision and manage care as an accountable care organization rather than as a single hospital or clinic."
