MONAHRQ® Software Expanded to Facilitate Improved Reporting
A software tool that facilitates health care quality reporting has been substantially upgraded to allow users to create websites and reports on quality data for hospitals, emergency departments, nursing homes and physicians.
MONAHRQ® is software developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). State agencies and other reporting organizations in 15 states already use MONAHRQ to support their public reporting of health care quality. Any organization can use MONAHRQ, either with data it already has, or by importing publicly available data about any hospital or nursing home in the country.
To generate MONAHRQ reports, users import their own inpatient and emergency department discharge data, or use publicly available data from Hospital Compare, Nursing Home Compare and/or Physician Compare from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). MONAHRQ, which is available at no cost, is designed for use by hospitals, hospital systems, hospital associations, nursing homes, public health departments, business and community alliances and other organizations that are involved in health care quality reporting and improvement.
The new release, Version 6.0, features:
- New reports on nursing home quality, clinician profiles and hospital utilization trending;
- The ability to input from new data sources, including CMS’s Nursing Home Compare and Physician Compare;
- A new Open Source Framework that enables users to format more data sets for use with MONAHRQ and design their own report templates;
- An consumer-oriented infographic report on safe surgery;
- Guided education for consumers including a video walkthrough of the software; and
- An improved user interface so the software is easier to use.
A free webinar will be held from 4 to 5 pm ET Wednesday, April 8, 2015, to introduce the new features and help users get the most out of the software.
To register for the webinar, please visit:
https://air-license.webex.com/air-license/j.php?RGID=re44c7c484fbfcdd8ac6079fa0389aa5c.
To download MONAHRQ 6.0, go to www.MONAHRQ.ahrq.gov.