VA Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice (CIEBP)

Bradley Doebbeling
1481 West 10th Street, HSRD 11-H, Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 988-4493
(317) 554-0114 FAX

The VA HSR&D Center on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice (CIEBP) was designated a national VA HSR&D Center of Excellence in June 2004 through an effective partnership between the Roudebush VAMC in Indianapolis, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 11, the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., IU School of Medicine and our academic affiliates. The mission of the Center is to advance the science of transforming the health care system, both within and outside the VA health care system. Our vision is to become the leading national research resource for learning about health system transformation. Our strategy is to partner with managers, clinicians, patients and other researchers in interdisciplinary teams to innovate, foster system redesign and drive broad scale adoption of changes to improve care delivery. Within this overall mission and vision, our research priorities are to: 1) Apply models of care that are safe, effective, patient- and relationship-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable; 2) Identify and share effective approaches for organizational change and rapid cycle process improvement; 3) Implement and disseminate systems interventions, considering human, social and organizational factors, to transform care delivery; 4) Implement health information technology into work flow to improve care; and 5) Redesign health care delivery systems. In pursuit of our mission, we have the following goals: 1) Research. Conduct health services and implementation research to transform health care delivery; 2) Disseminate. Identify, evaluate, communicate and disseminate best clinical and management practices for systems redesign to further VHA’s transformation; and 3) BUILD. Develop capacity (human resources, financial resources, and work processes) and achieve excellence in loyalty, worklife and stability for the Center to accelerate change in healthcare organizations and systems.