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Archived News
PICK in use
across Michigan
Vendor View Deployed
Conference
Evaluation Software
Quality Assurance
Software
New Jersey ADRC Pilot
Arkansas NextChoice
PICK for MICIS
PICK in use
across Michigan
July, 2007 – The
Portable Information Collection Kit (PICK) will be
in use across
Michigan
before the end of the summer, supporting the Home and
Community Based Elderly and Disabled Waiver staff.
Instead of a large paper chart, supports
coordinators and case managers love to be able to
carry a secure laptop with assessment, care plans,
medications, caregivers, medical providers and
progress notes. Without
calling or coming back into the office, necessary
information is available at their fingertips.
Even the most reluctant users could not imagine
going back to paper.
Even though PICK supports waiver agencies statewide,
each agency is able to determine which optional data
items are included on the screen for data collection.
“Tool tips”, which provide additional information
about the question or response, appear when users hold
the mouse over the item.
An ICD-9 lookup process supports
the latest diagnosis data collection, and a
medications lookup, with purpose, dosage, and
contraindications, will be added in the near future.
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Vendor
View Deployed
June, 2007 - CIM’s new
product Vendor View has
been deployed in the third
Michigan
waiver agency. Vendor
View replaces time consuming communications with
service providers by making information available to
service providers via a secure web portal.
Messages can be exchanged about services and
participants without using insecure email.
Service providers can generate reports when
they wish, and a history of all service authorizations
and messages is kept in the system.
Service providers are pleased
with the system, and very glad to be able to access
information when they wish.
One service provider, who is very pleased with
the new system, said that she thinks it is interesting
that the waiver program is leading the way on many of
the new technology initiatives.
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Conference
Evaluation Software
March, 2007 – CIM is
working with the
University
of
South Florida
to create a scan-able conference evaluation process.
Conferences are conducted all over the country,
and USF needs to evaluate the conference presenters
and materials without a labor-intensive data entry
process. The
new CIM process will allow USF to create different
forms for different conferences, using a standard
scan-able form framework created by CIM.
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Quality
Assurance Software
October, 2006 – CIM’s
portable assessment software PICK has been used to
create a new waiver quality assurance review tool.
The University of Michigan Center for the Frail
and Vulnerable Elderly provides quality assurance
reviews, and PICK was used to create the review tool
which evaluates programs on 96 different standards.
A reports portal provides both detail and
summary reports of review results.
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New Jersey ADRC Pilot
August 2005 - Center for Information
Management, Inc. (CIM), has been retained by the State
of New Jersey Division of Aging and Community Services
in the Department of Health and Senior Services to
create and deploy customized software for their Aging
and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC). CIM will
deliver both call center desktop software and portable
software for mobile workers to collect an upgraded
version of the MI-Choice Assessment instrument used in
Michigan’s waiver programs. CIM will collaborate on the
project with Mary James, researcher at the University of
Michigan, Institute of Gerontology.
Douglas Zimmer, project manager for CIM, stated: “New
Jersey has been on the forefront of innovation for long
terms care services for many years. We are pleased to be
able to assist them with their latest breakthrough
approach in creating clinical pathways for improved
quality and accountability.”
The project includes development and support of custom
application software in two pilot counties, Warren and
Atlantic, with the intent of distributing a proven
software solution to the remainder of the state’s county
offices. The project builds on technology created and
deployed for Michigan’s MI-Choice Home and Community
Based Waiver Program, for which CIM has provide a suite
of software tools for over ten years.
Center for Information Management, Inc. was formed in
1980 by Carol Clifford and Douglas Zimmer. Based in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, CIM specializes in providing software
solutions for the long terms care industry that are
tailored to each customers needs, including a
full-featured management information system (MI-Choice
Information System - MICIS) and
portable assessment software (Portable Information
Collection Kit - PICK).
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Arkansas Next Choice
June, 2005 - Center for Information
Management, Inc. (CIM), has received a contract with the
University of Michigan, Institute of Gerontology to
assist with their project with the State of Arkansas,
Department of Health and Human Services. The project is
focused on Arkansas’s new program, called NextChoice,
that will facilitate the transition of residents of
nursing facilities back to their community, with any
needed support services provided using the “cash and
counseling” approach.
CIM has been retained to create and deploy a customized
version of their portable Information Collection Kit (PICK)
software to collect in-depth assessments on program
participants based on the Minimum Data Set for Home Care
(MDS-HC) instrument of interRAI,
Inc. CIM will also deploy a web reports portal to
allow nurses, program administrators and evaluators to
generate custom outputs using algorithms based the
MDS-HC instrument, including CAPs/Triggers and Resource
Utilization Groups (RUG-IIII) for Home Care.
InterRAI is a collaborative network of researchers in
over 20 countries committed to improving health care for
persons who are elderly, frail, or disabled. Their goal
is to promote evidence-based clinical practice and
policy decisions through the collection and
interpretation of high quality data about the
characteristics and outcomes of persons served across a
variety of health and social services settings.
Center for Information Management, Inc. was formed in
1980 by Carol Clifford and Douglas Zimmer. Based in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, CIM specializes in providing software
solutions for the long terms care industry that are
tailored to each customers needs, including a
full-featured management information system (MI-Choice
Information System - MICIS) and portable assessment
software (Portable Information Collection Kit -
PICK).
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PICK for MICIS
October, 2004 - The Center for Information
management, Inc. announced today their latest addition
to their suite of software tools used to manage the
MI-Choice Home and Community Based Waiver Program. The
Portable Information Collection Kit (PICK)
software will allow customers of CIM’s MICIS Service
Bureau to use laptop computers to access and collect
data in electronic case files while working in
consumer’s home or other out-of-office locations.
The software is intended to eliminate unnecessary
paperwork for care managers as they travel to consumer
homes for periodic checks. With PICK, they will have
easy computerized access to all key information
maintained on the frail elderly and persons with
disabilities whose ongoing care they support and
coordinate.
“PICK lets these highly trained and compassionate care
managers spend less time doing paperwork and more time
caring for these vulnerable persons in their charge”
says Douglas Zimmer, PICK project manager for CIM.
Center for Information Management, Inc. was formed in
1980 by Carol Clifford and Douglas Zimmer. Based in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, CIM specializes in providing software
solutions for the long terms care industry that are
tailored to each customers needs, including a
full-featured management information system (MI-Choice
Information System - MICIS) and portable assessment
software (Portable Information Collection Kit -
PICK).
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