Welcome to VETWISE-LHS

The VETWISE Learning Health System (LHS) is a Veterans Affairs (VA) Center of Innovation (COIN) based in Nashville, Tennessee dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of Veterans through cutting-edge research, data-driven healthcare strategies, and community engagement.  

Improving Veteran health and promoting equitable care requires careful focus on the content of care (evidence underpinning what is provided), process of care (implementation of how care is provided and scaled), and policies that drive culture, context, and implementation. By integrating science, informatics, and system-wide healthcare experiences, VETWISE-LHS drives the development of Veteran-centric, personalized, evidence-based, and efficient care.

Our Vision

Veterans have their best quality of life throughout their life journey and to reduce the impact from the burden of acute and chronic disease.

Our Mission

The mission of VETWISE-LHS is to advance VHA’s ability to provide Veteran-centric, personalized, evidence-based, and efficient healthcare by supporting scientists dedicated to developing and continuously improving a VA Learning Health System.

What We Do

VETWISE-LHS is built upon the foundation of multi-disciplinary collaboration across several key areas:

• Biomedical Informatics and Data Science to develop innovative ways to collect and analyze data, transforming it into actionable knowledge.
• Veteran Engagement and Implementation to ensure that Veterans and their caregivers are actively involved in the design and implementation of healthcare interventions.
• Patient Outcomes and Health Policy to guide clinical decision-making and influence policy for safe, high-value care.

Together, these core areas work to prevent early-stage diseases and improve the treatment of complex acute and chronic illnesses.

 Impact Goals

• Create a hub of VHA-LHS experts focused on preventing the onset of early-stage disease and improving the care of acute illness and complex chronic care through research and discovery embedded in practice.
• Develop innovative methods to enhance longitudinal data collection and transform data to information and knowledge through biomedical informatics, biostatistics, and epidemiology. With the guidance and engagement of Veterans, caregivers, and shareholder, to enable implementation that leverages the strength of multi- and interdisciplinary approaches including nursing, pharmacy, and informatics.