# IDEAS 3.0

> **NIH VA I50** · VA SALT LAKE CITY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM · 2024 · —

## Abstract

The Informatics, Decision-Enhancement, and Analytic Sciences (IDEAS) Center of Innovation creates a
dynamic environment within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) where informatics is tightly integrated
with health services research and other disciplines. Biomedical informatics is a unifying theme of the IDEAS
Center, as many of our investigators are both health services researchers and informaticians, engaging in
research that bridges both fields. This overlap reflects the historical prominence of informatics at the VA Salt
Lake City Health Care System and our close affiliation with VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure
(VINCI).The IDEAS Center seeks to drive transformation of healthcare delivery in the Veterans Health
Administration through an integrated portfolio of translational research closely tied to operational partnerships:
• Apply qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry to elicit stakeholder perspectives, characterize clinical
 gaps, and identify information needs.
• Generate new knowledge to improve prediction of impacts of health system changes, to support clinical
 practice improvement, and to guide mitigation of adverse outcomes in Veterans.
• Design and implement innovative solutions to high priority problems, advancing VHA as a learning health
 care system.
• Collaborate with operational partners to disseminate interventions that enhance the quality, efficiency, and
 safety of health care delivery in the Veterans Health Administration and improve Veteran health.
IDEAS includes two areas of focused research, one emerging research area, and five methodological cores.
Our research reflects our investigators’ clinical expertise, coupled with our methodological strengths in
information visualization, natural language processing, decision-support system design, population analytics,
qualitative research, and pharmacoepidemiology. Our methods cores highlight our expanded research activities,
recruitment of new investigators, and increased emphasis on implementation science. Focus Area 1, Combating
Antibiotic Resistance, integrates our original focus areas, cognitive support for therapeutic decision-making
and healthcare-associated infections, and links with our new VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative
(QUERI) Program, Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance through Rapid Implementation of Available Guidelines
and Evidence (CARRIAGE), to implement research innovations into the field. Our vision is of a transformed
VHA, recognized for its national leadership and success in antibiotic stewardship and infection prevention.
Focus Area 2, Mitigating Health Risks in Veterans across Periods of Vulnerability, extends our Center’s
previous research on post-deployment and rural health, integrating the expertise of our recently recruited junior
and senior investigators in addiction medicine, traumatic brain injury, and mental health. We will leverage new
types of data and state-of-the-art analytical approaches to better characte...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11109686
- **Project number:** 5I50HX002731-05
- **Recipient organization:** VA SALT LAKE CITY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
- **Principal Investigator:** MATTHEW H SAMORE
- **Activity code:** I50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** VA
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** —
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-10-01 → 2023-09-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11109686

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11109686, IDEAS 3.0 (5I50HX002731-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11109686. Licensed CC0.

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