,The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Resident Supervision Handbook (VHA Handbook 1400.1) requires facility directors to report annually the status of their residency training programs to their Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) Director. VISN Directors review and then forward those reports to the VHA Chief Academic Affiliations Officer. This database enables electronic, paperless reporting of this information from VA Medical Centers to the VISN and from the VISN to the Office of Academic Affiliations.,

,The Residency Allocation Database is used to determine allocation of funds for residency programs offered by Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs). Information for the database comes from any VAMC that has made a funding request for its residency programs. The Office of Academic Affiliations distributes worksheets and memos are sent to participating VAMCs. VAMC personnel enter the information electronically into the database housed at the Academic Information Management Center (AIMC) located in St. Louis, Missouri. The data entry and collection process is done annually beginning in September and ending in December. The main user of this database is the Office of Academic Affiliations.,

Dataset listing the number of minority veterans enrolled in VA healthcare for the year 2014.

,The Health Services Training Report (HST) Database tracks the overall number of Personnel and Accounting Integrated Data Systems (PAID) and Without Compensation (WOC) Trainee positions by the cooperating academic institutions for all medical center approved health services programs. Information in the database comes from all Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs) who have Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) approved HST programs. Worksheets and memos are distributed to participating VAMCs by the OAA annually. VAMC personnel enter the information electronically into the database located at the OAA Support Center (OAASC) in St. Louis, Missouri. The main user of this database is the OAA.,

,The Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (VASQIP) database resides in the VA National Surgery Office (NSO) and is a quality assurance activity-derived database containing information on all patients who undergo surgery within the VA. The primary purpose of this database is to improve the quality of care for Veterans undergoing surgery by providing information to care provider teams for self-assessment and quality improvement purposes. Data for the VASQIP database are entered by nurse data managers using Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) at the VA surgical facilities. These data captured in VistA are securely transmitted to the VASQIP database for compilation and analysis. Results of the data analysis are reported from the National Surgery Office (NSO) for quarterly and annual review of surgical quality and patient care issues; these data are confidential and privileged under the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 5705 and its implementing regulations. Note: In 2009, the Cardiac Specialty program (Continuous Improvement in Cardiac Surgery Program (CICSP)) was merged with the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) for a comprehensive all-specialty surgical database, VASQIP. It employs both Microsoft SQL Server and Statistical Analysis Software implementation.,

,This data table provides the number of Veterans who used VA programs each year and a unique count of VBA users and All users.,

,The VA's Veteran Health Administration, in support of the Open Data Initiative, is providing the number of Veteran enrollees by state/county for fiscal year 2015. For additional information about Veteran Priority Groups, see the data assets metadata.,

,The mission of the VA Clinical Assessment Reporting and Tracking (CART) Program for cardiac catheterization laboratories (CART-CL) is to support a national VA reporting system, data repository, and quality improvement program for procedures performed in VA cardiac catheterization laboratories. CART-CL is intended to improve clinical care/communication, support local and national quality improvement, monitor patient safety, capture workload of cardiac catheterization lab procedures, and inform VA system evaluation to maximize operational efficiency and patient outcomes. CART-CL is a collaborative effort between the VA Patient Care Services, Office of Information and Analytics, Ischemic Heart Disease Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (IHD-QUERI), and Office of Information and Technology (OI&T).,

Health Care: All Veterans who received either VA inpatient care, VA outpatient care, purchased (fee basis) care, VA long-term services and support, or VA pharmacy care were included. VA Health Care enrollees who did not seek care from VA during the current year were not included. Veterans who only sought care from a VHA Vet Center were not included. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) provides Health Care.

,Networks are able to update on an ongoing basis data originally added to the Veterans Health Administration Physician Productivity and Staffing initiative to ensure that it reflects current conditions. This data access link function is restricted to a limited number of Network representatives. All the available facility, Network, and National Primary Care Staff and Room Utilization reports are available. In addition key guidance documents are available to people without edit access.,