"Yes, ma'am. It's based on the medical information that the veterans have donated that the DOE can use to further the treatment, try to predict who's going to get what."
"the suicide rate is a direct result of just what you're talking about"
"that's why it's so important. If you don't have the backup data, how do you--and if you can't find it, like you say, then how do you act on it?"
"I agree, and in my office this week, National Police Week, we had six police officers, three of them had gotten shot, and guess who did the shooting? A veteran from the Vietnam War who was on the SWAT..."
"What greater service can we provide than people such as yourself, when you call in with a particular illness, be able to say, we've included your data, along with others, here is what some treatment c..."
"If you don't have the information, it's like flying with a blindfold on."
"A lot of these veterans are, particularly on some of the surgeries they need, being put off time after time again."
"I think one of the advantages, and why we put the pilot program in, is to give it time to see what works and what doesn't work."
"At the end of the day, it's to help that veteran. It's to help that family of the veteran."
"By having the 2-year window to evaluate it, we're going to encourage the patients, the veterans that are actually being served, to get involved."
"the value of this, if we can have data, however small, it will pay dividends on down the road."
"this is very promising, because some of the biggest problems we have... the mental health aspect falls through the cracks"