Sustainment for Quality and Safety Initiative

The Veterans Health Administration National Radiation Oncology Program’s (NROP) quality and safety initiatives require clinical informatics infrastructure and subject matter expertise support. The NROP's mission is to enhance healthcare services for veterans undergoing radiation treatments by improving clinical documentation and data management.

The subject matter expert personnel and services to sustain and enhance the Health Information Gateway and Exchange (HINGE) platform used for clinical quality surveillance program, expand capabilities for community care dashboard program, provide radiotherapy incident reporting program and analysis services, manage Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) data, and conduct retrospective clinical data extraction from clinical notes. services to sustain the central intranet-based QA database with dashboard software and HINGE applications accessible at each VHA radiation oncology facility.

Support for the data communication packages between the HINGE application and the central QA database housing the quality measure data and support the locally deployed HINGE data communication modules that will interface with medical devices and IT applications in Fast Interoperability Healthcare Resource (FHIR) and Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) protocols.