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.

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.   

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.  

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.

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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