Venous Care Pathway Improvement

Overview

Development stage

In development or acquisitionSource: a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.

High-impact designation

High-impactSource: a) High-impact

Impact justification

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Start date

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Mission

Topic area

Health and Medical

Operational functions

Clinical and medical Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

Care pathways for venous diseases (e.g. deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, post thrombotic syndrome, superficial venous insufficiency, phlebolymphedema, and venous leg ulceration) are inconsistent and inefficient, leading to poor clinical outcomes and losing economic value statements for health payers and providers. Impact Health will work directly with VHA employees to standardize care protocols for selected venous diseases and implement a digital platform for Veterans, care providers, and hospital executives to support and view results of the improved protocol.

Expected benefits

The digital platform empowers Veterans and providers with tools that include but aren’t limited to: track clinical outcomes, view longitudinal venous care progress, communicate remotely, manage care tasks for Veterans, access educational resources, prioritize Veterans based on status updates, collect research-grade clinical and economic data, and provide analytics of clinical and economic benefit of improved VHA venous pathways compared to the historical standard of care in VHA health systems. Hospital executives will also have access to a dashboard that demonstrates the Veteran population with venous diseases, population-level clinical outcome progress, recruitment statistics, facility economics, and more. Streamlining protocols for diagnosis, stratification, referrals, treatment, and post-treatment care will reduce health worker burden, create economic efficiencies, and significantly improve Veteran health outcomes. Providing a digital health platform that reinforces the protocols will facilitate better provider support for Veterans, empower Veterans to manage their own diseases, and will collect real-world data to validate the benefit of the improved protocol.

System outputs

Evidence-based and cost-effective clinical care pathways, including risk stratification, guidance on the next diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, remote patient monitoring, and identification of barriers to access to care.

Technology

AI classification

Classical / predictive MLSource: Classical/Predictive Machine Learning: Models trained on data to make predictions or classifications based on identified patterns or relatio…

System name(s)

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Custom-developed code

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Sourcing

How it was built

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Vendor (as reported)

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Vendors (standardized)

None on the standard list

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII

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Privacy Impact Assessment

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Authorization to Operate

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Demographic features

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Training and evaluation data

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Federal Data Catalog

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Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Potential impacts and how they were identified

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