 | Federal data submission specifications. Stepwise developed
the data specifications adopted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services for the electronic submission of MDS and
OASIS data from nursing homes and
home health agencies to state agencies. You can see HTML versions of
these data specifications on this web site (click here for MDS
and OASIS). |
| Facilitator Quality
Manager. This software is
being marketed by Enge & Associates to nursing facilities
throughout the United States. It assists nursing facilities in
analyzing quality indicators, benchmarking their performance, and
implementing quality improvement programs. Facilitator has been listed
by JCAHO (the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations) as an acceptable performance measurement system for use in
its accreditation process. |
| PC-Group. PC-Group is a statistical package
which enables users to perform Automatic Interaction Detection (AID), a type
of classification analysis. It has been used by case-mix researchers
throughout the world. |
| RUGs
DLL's. 16- and 32-bit DLL's for
use by developers writing software to calculate RUGs. These software
components can be plugged into programs to accurately perform the complex
RUGs classifications. |
