![]() Spring 2024
Director's Letter![]() Melissa Braganza, MPH We are only in the spring of 2024 and so much has already happened in Health Systems Research (HSR) and QUERI this year. HSR/QUERI strategic planning is in full swing, where we have already gathered feedback from more than 200 clinical, policy, and financial leaders and researchers nationally. We are grateful for all the input and feedback from our partners, and we have begun implementing new changes and enhancing communication strategies with our operations partners and HSR/QUERI-funded investigators and staff. In February, Network Directors voted on their top priorities for FY24, which were highlighted in our recently released QUERI Global Requests for Applications:
We are also excited to release our newest call for proposals: the QUERI Data Science Learning Health System Request for Applications. This QUERI News features two of the awardees from this past Fall who are focused on preventing and ending homelessness and improving geriatrics services. We are hoping to fund additional QUERI teams to deploy learning communities and develop population-based cohort datasets that can help lay the foundation for future evidence generation and evaluation activities addressing key priorities:
These learning communities and data infrastructure can help make evaluations more efficient and potentially enable evaluation teams to provide findings to clinical operations leaders and policymakers in a more timely manner. The most common question we receive from our partners is: when will we see evaluation results? And one of the biggest challenges we hear from our QUERI-funded evaluations teams is related to the delays with regulatory and data access issues. Currently, evaluation teams need to reinvent the wheel, often waiting weeks to months for regulatory approvals for every new evaluation. These new learning health systems can help to overcome these challenges by developing cohort datasets, SOPs, and other resources that can streamline these processes and enable evaluations to get started more quickly. As we implement this new, ever evolving Learning Health System in VA, we seek to incorporate Veteran and provider perspectives to help improve the access, quality, and experience of care our nation’s Veterans receive. Melissa Braganza, MPH |
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