ADVANCING ADCS VIA A STANDARDIZED CORE DATA SET

在第一阶段，RTZ Associates研究了创建一个 为发展协调会提供一个管理信息工具， 为研究人员和政策制定者收集关键信息的工具。 鼓励中心工作人员继续使用该工具并改进数据 RTZ建立了一个数据收集软件系统， ADC计费和状态合规要求。 这种使用 一个研究工具被证明是如此的有用，以至于67%的医疗补助计划- 加州的报销ADC购买了该系统， 程序.两种相互竞争的产品几乎绝迹了。同相 RTZ将在25个中心建立类似的核心信息系统， 另外四个州：爱荷华州、夏威夷、康涅狄格和亚利桑那。 五 每个州的试点将帮助创建一个产品， 做三件事：l）创建一个通用的评估工具来预测 护理水平需要在准入的客户程序; 2）提供 25个试点地点，配备各州特有的管理工具;以及3）提供 为研究人员提供了一个易于访问的持续数据源。 拟议的商业应用： 该项目将制作一个软件包供成人日托中心使用 在全国范围内，开发数据集的互联网机制，并将 为ADC研究提供国家数据集。该项目将开发 该工具在五个州设有25个日间中心。目前有超过5000个ADC， 美国谁将是潜在的消费者的软件， 技术援助和数据管理服务。

In Phase I, RTZ Associates studied the feasibility of creating a management information tool for ADCs that would also serve as an on-going collection tool of key information for researchers and policy makers. To encourage center staff to continue to use the tool and to improve data quality, RTZ built a software system for data collection that also met ADCs billing and state compliance requirements. This inducement to use a research tool proved so helpful that a full 67% of all Medicaid- reimbursed ADCs in California purchased the system to manage their programs. Two competing products have become all but extinct. In Phase II, RTZ will create a similar core information system in 25 centers in four additional states: Iowa, Hawaii, Connecticut, and Arizona. The five pilot sites in each state will help create a product that will enable RTZ to do three things: l) create a universal assessment tool to predict the level of care needed upon admittance of a client to a program; 2) provide the 25 pilot sites with a state specific management tool; and 3) provide an easily accessible on-going source of data for researchers. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: The project will produce a software package for use by adult day centers across the country, develop Internet mechanisms for data set and will produce a National data set for ADC research. The project will develop the tool with 25 day centers in five states. There are over 5000 ADCs in the United States who would be potential consumers of the software, technical assistance, and data management services.