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VIReC Data Issues Brief - 2000 Archive

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Data Issues Brief - 2000 Headlines

  1. National Prosthetic Patient Database: New Resource for Researchers
  2. HIPAA Final Privacy Rule
  3. Special Pay Hikes for Many Government IT Workers
  4. Programming Support for Use of the Austin Databases
  5. New Standards for Metropolitan Areas to be Released
  1. GAF File Name Change
  2. News From the CFD (formerly: AAC)
  3. Upcoming ResDAC Medicare Data Courses
  4. AHA to Release Hospital Statistics - 2001
  5. AMA Publishes Several New Physician Data Resources
  1. EOY Close-Out on October 13, 2000
  2. VA Investigator Access to the Area Resource File (ARF)
  3. Clinical Guidelines by Disease Available On-Line
  4. SOTA Conference on Informed Consent Scheduled
  5. HSR&D Patient Confidentiality and Data Security Committee Formed
  6. Security Top Issue for VHA Office of Information
  1. AAC Schedules EOY Closeouts
  2. RAI/MDS Update
  3. OI Top Issue - Hepatitis C
  4. Health Care Security & Privacy -- Complying with HIPAA
  5. NAHDO to Hold 15th Anniversary Meeting
  6. Long-Distance Learning Available
  1. Human Subject Protection and Financial Conflicts of Interest
  2. Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
  3. Rural Health Research Agenda
  4. Health, United States, 2000 With Adolescent Health Chartbook Released
  5. News From the Office of Information
  6. New Veteran Population Figures To Be Released
  1. National dSs Extracts
  2. DHHS State Profiles Available Online
  3. AHSR Fall 2000 Seminar: “Using Federal and State Databases”
  4. News from the VHA Office of Information
  5. Techniques for Handling Bias in Health Services Outcomes Research National Conference
  6. HQ Library Reading Room
  7. New Version of PubMed Released
  1. Unique Patients Database
  2. Demographic Reference on Veteran Population
  3. Austin Downloads
  4. New ZIP Code Tabulation Areas Developed
  5. CFD (formerly: AAC) Hosts the 12th Information Technology Conference (ITC)
  6. New Clinical Trials Web Site
  1. PTF Observation SAS Datasets
  2. ERIC Internet Course
  3. Health Economics Seminar Series
  4. AHSR Research Methods Seminars
  5. Exchange look-up
  6. Statistical Web Site
  1. Austin charges by fiscal year (1999, 2000)
  2. Effective Saturday, April 1, a portion of the new VA “stronger password policy” went into effect for the Austin Automation Center’s OS/390 Enterprise Server
  3. The VIReC Web site now has outpatient documentation on the four outpatient SAS datasets
  4. The list of VHA Office of Information (OI) top issues for March 2000 includes projects approved by the Information Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC)
  5. HCFA’s Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC) at the University of Minnesota is offering a 3-day course on Medicare data
  6. National Data Systems has just released the first version of the VHA Corporate Databases Monograph
  1. The Austin Automation Center has SAS datasets available
  2. The members of the Data Quality Workgroup
  3. Since January 2000, the Austin Automation Center has been documenting all changes to the Inpatient and Outpatient SAS files
  4. The Information Office plans to create a Data Registry
  5. Two items from the Information Office Top Issues page
  6. VIReC is sponsoring a workshop at the HSR&D Annual Meeting
  7. The dSs Access Policy is in final revision
  1. National dSs extracts will be created and housed at Austin
  2. A CHAMPVA file will be produced in SAS format
  3. At the present time, only valid means test records are transmitted to Austin.
  4. Austin is considering putting the SE file (outpatient encounter file) onto disk
  5. The VA Station Tracking System (VAST)
  6. FY 1993/2001 Rate Chart on Austin for Processing Services, Enterprise Services and Administrative Services
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