Information Solutions for Community Long Term Care

加州的多用途老年人服务计划（MSSP）是200多个医疗补助豁免计划之一，该计划为低收入消费者提供社区长期护理服务，否则他们将被送往机构。MSSP在加利福尼亚州的1个地点为大约10,000名体弱的老年人提供服务，目前预算扩大25%。然而，尽管该计划在医疗保健系统中越来越重要，但关于其影响和成本的信息却很少。目前的数据跟踪系统已经过时，以纸张为基础，而且很麻烦。MSSP站点和MSSP站点协会（MSA）表达了对当前系统的失望，并希望建立一个标准化的信息系统来收集数据，以满足更严格的州和联邦报告要求、政策规划和发展、正在进行的项目和临床改进。这个项目的目的是发展管理支助计划各地点和负责资助这些地点的国家机构所需要的信息库。该项目将为MSSP建立一个标准化的综合信息系统，该系统将基于RTZ公司现有的成人日间服务软件系统，并利用该系统开发一个跨站点数据库以供持续分析。为了完成该项目的目标，RTZ Associates将与MSA和Partners In Care Foundation合作。建议的商业应用：软件和数据仓库遵循向社区长期护理提供者租赁软件的申请人的财务成功模式。最初的标记将是加州的MSSP站点，随后是全国的病例管理和医疗补助豁免项目。MSSP协会及其成员正在参与开发，试点小组已承诺租赁该系统。未来的收入将来自软件租赁和数据报告的销售。

California's Multi-Purpose Senior Services Program(MSSP) is one of more than two-hundred Medicaid waiver programs that provide community-based long-term care services to low-income consumers who would otherwise be institutionalized . MSSP serves approximately 10,000 frail elderly individuals in California at 1 sites with a 25% expansion currently budgeted. However, in spite of the program's growing importance in the health care system, there is little information available on its impacts and costs. Current data tracking systems are out-dated, paper-based and cumbersome. MSSP sites and the MSSP Site Association (MSA) have expressed frustration with current systems and a desire to build a standardized information system to collect data that can be used for meeting stricter state and federal reporting requirements, policy planning and development and ongoing program and clinical improvement. This project aims to develop the information base called for by MSSP sites and State agencies responsible for funding them. The project will build a standardized, integrated information system for MSSP based on an existing RTZ associates software system for adult day services and use this system to develop a cross-site database for ongoing analysis. In completing the project's aims, RTZ Associates will collaborate with the MSA and the Partners in Care Foundation. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: The software and the data warehouse follow a financially successful model for the applicant of leasing software to Community Long Term Care Providers. The initial marker will be MSSP sites in California followed by Case Management and Medicaid waiver programs throughout the country. The MSSP Association and its members are participating in the development and the pilot group has committed to lease the system. Future revenues will come from software leases and the sale of data reports.