 | I-ELCAP The International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP) is an international, collaborative group consisting of experts on lung cancer and related issues from around the world. The I-ELCAP mission is to achieve early diagnosis, treatment, and ultimate cure of lung cancer through the rapid dissemination and advancement of research among a diversified, collaborative network. I-ELCAP holds international conferences every six months since October 1999, when the inaugural conference was stimulated by the July 1999 Lancet publication of the ELCAP results. The 82 I-ELCAP institutions have screened over 81,000 people in 10 countries around the world. These institutions use the ELCAP software management system, which was pioneered by Dr. Claudia Henschke and which was gifted to the VA for this project through an open-source agreement. The adaptation of the ELCAP software for VA is called VAPALS-ELCAP. The team that Dr. Henschke leads at the I-ELCAP headquarters guides the development of VAPALS-ELCAP and provides training and quality monitoring for the clinicians who use it. |
 | VISTA Expertise Network (VEN) VISTA Expertise Network (VEN) is a nonprofit organization comprised of healthcare information technology professionals with deep knowledge of VistA, the award-winning medical software suite used at all VA medical centers. Software developers from VEN adapted the ELCAP software for VA use as VAPALS-ELCAP. The VEN team continues to support the installation of VAPALS-ELCAP and its integration with the VA’s electronic health record. |
 | Paraxial Technologies Paraxial Technologies is an advanced software development company providing the healthcare information technology and imaging fields with leading computing algorithms, applications, and resources. Paraxial provides project management and oversight for the software development component of this project. |
 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center The Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research is collaborating with VA physician-scientists to evaluate the VAPALS-ELCAP project through an implementation science framework. The Center supports this program evaluation research through the services of its Implementation and Quality Improvement Core and Qualitative Research Core. This collaboration has led to a number of peer-reviewed manuscripts describing lung screening in the VA. |
