so dr. miller, welcome. as i read your report, your testimony, and also the executive summary, i was just struck by the thoroughness of the work you do. a lot of the issues are controversial. i remember when we first talked about controlling payments to physicians and the heck that we received and how much controversy there was. and you thought the sky was falling and it would never work out. and i mention that because i really think your report, and it has areas where there are difference of opinion, your report shows how successful this has been, this program, that is, in some respects a public but not only public, but public and private partnership. and with a lot of back and forth from the private sector as reflected in your report. and i just want to comment for each of us on this committee and this subcommittee, when we go home, we have lots of meetings with the various providers, the various groups, and they have differences of opinion. and they have some urgent pleadings. but i really think your repo

to really understand that, i know dr. miller has an aggressive program to expand this and looking at social media to quantify this. if phenomenon of you have specific familiarity i'd be happy to hear comments. >> this study was funded out of the stem activation parts. we're really excited about it. both the coverage we managed to get all together, right, not just one source, what i wanted to point out a lot of studies are still olympian going. i'm really glad you're looking at this initial report but want to make sure we draw your attention to the final report once it's been completed. we feel it's absolutely crucial to social sciences to make sure your research active and up to date. >> good. always nice to see government doing its job well. to get to scientific things here, how much overlap is there in emp events caused by nuclear events? is this a separate set of litigation even though there are similarities and the time frame. obviously the skiptture i is way different. >> i can say a few things i learned about this f

we have recently appointed, seven weeks ago, dr. matt miller to head up your veterans crisis line. this is the first time we've had a clinical psychologist in charge of the veterans crisis line. because this is clinical work and this is not just a call center. we have expanded telemental health. we have 11 telemental health regional hubs throughout the country. and in 2006 alone we had 427,000 telemental health encounters. that's more than ever before. we have taken from our research enterprises a big data analytics program in a we call reach vet that now predicts who may be at the greatest risk for suicide, up to 80 times the risk of suicide of a regular person over the next year. now we call them. this is being done around the country to outreach and see what we can do to proactively help, so not waiting until there is a suicide attempt. on september 15th of this month we released state suicide data. many of you have been referencing that data. but we think that's going to help people design more effective interventions. we have continued to develop public/private partnerships be

we have recently appointed seven weeks ago, dr. matt miller to head up our veteran's crisis line, this is the first time we have had a clinical psychologist in charge of the veteran's crisis line, because this is clinical work and this is not just a call center. we have expanded telemental health, we have 11 telemental health regional hubs throughout the country. and in 2006 alone, we had 427,000 telemental health encounters, that's more than ever before. we have taken from our research interpri enterpris enterprises, a big data analytical -- up -- over the next year. and now we call them, and this is being done around the country, to outreach and see what we can do to proactively help, and not waiting until there's a suicide attempt. on september 15 of this month, we have -- we have continued to develop public-private partnerships, because va can't do it alone. this morning i was talking to the cohen network, but many of our vsos and other groups are here in the room today, are those partners that we're working with. we continue t