U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

The goal of the VISN 4 MIRECC is to enhance the overall mental health of Veterans throughout the nation. Our center's focus on Precision Mental Health Care refers to the use of biomarkers, self-assessment, or other measures of disease/problems as a way to influence treatment planning and program management. Precision Mental Health Care has many components. Within those components, we focus on two major elements. First, we work to enhance the initial evaluation of patients by systematically eliciting and integrating their treatment preferences in the care process and implement specific kinds of symptom and disorder measurement, including biomarkers, to tailor the choice of existing treatments to be deployed. Second, we adapt treatment over time, understand implementation barriers, and build a platform to incorporate patient preference. We extend our work on the development of information technology as a means to improve the assessment process, particularly that involving self-reported information. We accomplish these broad goals through services research; education and training programs; clinical programs built on research findings; involvement of the VA Medical Centers within VISN 4, and the VA more broadly, and the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh.

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