Programmatic Theme: Clinical Research Informatics

Abstract:
In order to empower research into veteran health needs, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is piloting a national VA Data Commons to integrate clinical, genomic, imaging and other data from the country’s largest integrated health care system within a scalable compute infrastructure. This work will describe the principles used in its development as well as early results from that effort.

Learning Objective: Understand principles and metrics that can be used for design and evaluation of data commons platforms for research and development.

Authors:

Gil Alterovitz (Presenter)
United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Justin Koufopoulos, United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Hamid Saoudian, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System
Robert Grossman, University of Chicago
Rachel Ramoni, United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Scott DuVall, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System