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Health Economics Resource Center (HERC)
, Menlo Park, CA
Center Focus:
Document and evaluate of VA economic data bases, including Managerial Cost Accounting (MCA) system national data extracts, and data on purchased care, pharmacy, prosthetics and other cost data.
Create new VA economics data, including a comprehensive estimate of the cost of all VA health care encounters, annual patient-level cost estimates, an index of the relative labor cost of different facilities, a schedule of the cost of employing different types of health care staff, and a discharge-level database of inpatient costs derived from the MCA inpatient data.
Provide Cybercourses on cost-effectiveness analysis and econometric methods.
Coordinate Cyberseminars on health economic methods and findings
Assist VA researchers with a health economics consulting service
Convene working groups of HSR researchers to address economic issues of special concern to the Veterans Health Administration.
Contact
Todd Wagner, PhD
email:
herc@va.gov
website:
Center for Information Dissemination and Education Resources
, Boston, MA
Center Focus
Developing publications and managing HSR national dissemination efforts;
Managing the national HSR and QUERI websites;
Planning and facilitating meetings and conferences, including HSR and QUERI national meetings and state-of-the-art conferences;
Coordinating HSR cyber seminars; and
Developing HSR contributions to R&D publications and other VA and non-VA publications and products.
Contact
Karen Bossi, MA
email:
Cider.Boston@va.gov
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