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Last Submission: July 30, 2004 3:12PM CST
Total Records: 174 Accepted Records: 174
Last Report Requested: July 30, 2004 3:34PM CST

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Researchers at the Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis (CHSRA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seek to improve long-term care and other health systems through a variety of activities. CHSRA researchers:

Conduct health systems research to improve the delivery, quality, and payment of care at local, state, and national levels.
Focus on six major areas:
1. Performance measurement,
2. Quality and process improvement,
3. Reimbursement and payment systems,
4. Program evaluation,
5. Decision making, and
6. Patient/consumer education and support.
Develop and evaluate health information systems and databases for use by consumers, providers, policy makers, and regulators.
Address issues across the health care spectrum, with specialties in long-term care, accident epidemiology, substance addiction, and cancer communication.

CHSRA research and development projects serve a variety of audiences, including:

Long-term care and health care providers
Consumers
Policy makers
Resident/patient advocates
Regulatory agencies
Local, state, and federal governments

The staff at CHSRA bring expertise in numerous areas, including health services research, industrial engineering, actuarial science, sociology, social work, nursing, pharmacy, psychology, quality assurance, health care regulation and information technology. The ability to draw upon so many disciplines is one of CHSRA's greatest strengths, helping to ensure products that are not only technically strong but also conceptually meaningful and useful to the client.

HELP! I'M NEW HERE

This link contains a comprehensive overview of the entire ePIP website. It can be used as a tutorial for new users or a reference for any user in need of further information on using the website.

FAQ (FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS)

This is a list of questions which CHSRA has received relating to QIs, Reports, Submissions, this website and many other topics. It is a great place to start if you are having some trouble or just not sure about something.

ABOUT YOUR FACILITY

This link shows the contact information that the facility has provided to CHSRA. This information can be updated right from this link.

SUBMIT DATA

This website allows the user to securely transmit MDS data electronically to CHSRA for immediate analysis and reports. The user simply clicks this link, selects the file to submit and sends their MDS data directly to CHSRA for immediate analysis. Whenever the user decides to submit data to CHSRA the site is ready to accommodate them.

REPORT CENTER

The report center is the place to start for all report related features of ePIP. There is a great deal of flexibility to the report selections, parameters and comparison groups that the user may choose. Here the user can:

Run the predefined CHSRA Standard Report Set with the simple click of a button.
Set up new Report Sets with any collection of reports and parameters and save these Report Sets to run whenever they choose.
Run individual report(s).
And an exciting new feature of ePIP is the ability to subdivide a facility into classifications for reporting purposes. The user can create classifications based on the MDS room number or resident name fields and then generate reports for specific groups or subgroups of the facility.

ePIP provides all the standard reports available from your state agencies as well as many new and exciting graphs and reports. Click here to view samples of many of the reports available to members of ePIP.

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QUALITY CENTER

This link contains a comprehensive array of Quality information. It provides PIP members with the Specific QI Guides, Clinical Links Table, The Peer Facts newsletter, QI/QM Definitions, and other quality information as it becomes available.

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This is a link to download other useful software products.