VAIRRS provides dashboards that offer users customized and tailored data, metrics, analytics and decision-making tools. The VAIRRS approach to dashboards ensures they are self-updating and automated without the need for service providers to update metrics or sources.

• Consolidated overview of the research data
• Ability to run custom reports for data analysis and reporting
• Ability to leverage data for decision-making
• Easy data auditing capabilities

Current Dashboards available to the field:

• National Researcher Dashboard
  We are pleased to announce the newest addition to the dashboard portfolio. The National Researcher Dashboard was published in October 2022 for all VA researchers. As a researcher, you will have the necessary tools to search the national IRBNet dataset for active research projects. The National Researcher Dashboard is located here.

Reminder: if you have not already requested access to your facility's dashboard, you can request access here. Please submit all feedback to VAIRRS@va.gov.

• Field Staff Dashboard

  Study Team Tracking (STT) is now live! Refer to the Field Staff Reporting (FSR) dashboard "wizards" page to identify which projects have yet to submit an STT wizard. 

  Upcoming changes to the FSR dashboard include:

  1. A derived overall Project Status column based on the latest board statuses
  2. Data curation to show discrepancies or errors in the data to rectify in IRBNet (IRB Project Risk level & Project Status)
  3. Inclusion of additional project data that may not currently be identified (i.e. board information that show "blank" statuses)
  4. The addition of PCS CRADA information
  5. The addition of a new human subject research protocol list to include the following data: date of Initial IRB approval, date of most recent Continuing Review approval, and initial Review Type.
  6. The expansion of the Review Tracking data beyond 5-months and 1-year

  If you would like to learn more about the Field Staff Reporting dashboard updates, the recording of the VAIRRS End of Year Updates webinar is available.

  You can request access to your facility’s dashboard here (VA network only).

  Reminder: Once your access is approved, please refer to this link for access.

  
  
  

  Sample dashboard of local facility

• COVID-19 Research Dashboard

  As of January 23, 2024, there are 969 active projects related to COVID-19

  research taking place at 81 VA Medical Centers across the country.

  The projects submitted to VAIRRS can be easily tracked via our COVID-19 Research Dashboard. The COVID-19 Research Dashboard allows users to search studies by specific topic and/or location.

  The COVID-19-related projects submitted to the VAIRRS platform support and advance VA's clinical and research missions, ultimately helping Veterans affected by the disease.

  

Do you have ideas for improving the field dashboards? Do you have a request for a new dashboard development for your team? Please submit your suggestions to the VAIRRS Dashboard team using the online form at https://tinyurl.com/mr2str4d (VA network access only).

1. Who can have access to Dashboards?
   Any VA employee can request access to a VAIRRS Dashboard.


2. How is the data for my facility being used?
   VAIRRS uses the data in the dashboards for regular reporting, leadership briefs and decision making. The VAIRRS goal is to create a trustworthy authoritative data set so that the data in the dashboards can also be leveraged for auditing purposes.


3. Where does the data in the dashboards come from?
   Most of the data in the dashboards is pulled from the data and wizards in IRBNet. If a dashboard is pulling data from an additional source, it will be defined in the VAIRRS data dictionary.


4. How often is the data in dashboards refreshed?
   The data in the dashboards are updated on a weekly basis and updates from the prior week will reflect on the following Monday.


5. If a site has a multi-site IRB, will they have access to the studies reviewed for other sites in the Field Staff Dashboard?
   Individuals should only have access to the studies reviewed at their own site.

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