Developing Infrastructure to Realize the Value of Patient-Generated Health Data in a Large Integrated Health Care System: The Veterans Health Administration Experience

Terry J Newton   ¹ , MD ;   Nilesh Shah   ¹ , MD ;   Katherine Lewis   ¹ , LCSW ;   Mark S Zocchi   ^{2, 3, 4} , PhD ;   Felicia R Bixler   ^{2, 5} , MS ;   Bella Etingen   ^{2, 6, 7} , PhD ;   Jessica M Lipschitz   ^{2, 8, 9} , PhD ;   Stephanie A Robinson   ^{2, 3, 10} , PhD ;   Timothy P Hogan   ^{2, 3, 7} , PhD ;   Stephanie L Shimada   ^{2, 3, 4, 11} , PhD

¹ Office of Connected Care, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC, United States

² eHealth Partnered Evaluation Initiative, Veterans Affairs Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, United States

³ Center for Health Optimization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), Veterans Affairs Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, United States

⁴ Division of Health Informatics and Implementation Science, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

⁵ Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare (CINCCH), Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, IL, United States

⁶ Research and Development Service, Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

⁷ Peter O’Donnell Jr School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

⁸ Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

⁹ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

¹⁰ The Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States

¹¹ Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States