High-Risk, High-Impact Health Services Research: Developing an Innovation Initiative

Jolie N. Haun; Naomi Tomoyasu; Courtney Paolicelli; Christine Melillo; David Atkins

doi:10.21061/jvs.v6i1.169

High-Risk, High-Impact Health Services Research: Developing an Innovation Initiative

Journal of Veterans Studies

Volume 6 (2020): Issue 1

By: Jolie N. Haun, Naomi Tomoyasu, Courtney Paolicelli, Christine Melillo and David Atkins

Open Access

|May 2020

Abstract

As health systems strive towards innovative solutions to healthcare problems, research programs should be a crucial resource to support the evidence base of innovation. Unfortunately, current research funding processes and infrastructure often produce incremental improvements over an extended timeline. Within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) service used the need for greater innovation to address healthcare problems to examine possible changes in how research is solicited, reviewed, funded, and implemented. Towards this goal, HSR&D has launched the “Innovation Initiative” which includes a new funding mechanism that supports research that has potential for high impact. The aim of this paper is to describe this new funding mechanism for supporting scientific innovation and impact in health services research.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v6i1.169 | Journal eISSN: 2470-4768

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Language: English

Page range: 171 - 177

Submitted on: Jan 13, 2020

Accepted on: Mar 17, 2020

Published on: May 18, 2020

Published by: Virginia Tech Publishing

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Health Services,

Research and Development,

Grants,

Veterans,

Risk

© 2020 Jolie N. Haun, Naomi Tomoyasu, Courtney Paolicelli, Christine Melillo, David Atkins, published by Virginia Tech Publishing
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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