Key Benefits

• COMPASS provides comprehensive waiver management software, including assessments, service plans, billing, and claims processing
• COMPASS provides advanced clinical management tools, including interRAI Quality Indicator, RUG III-HC, and CAPs and Trigger reports
• COMPASS supports centralized information used by multiple agencies
• COMPASS provides statewide views and functions for state managers
• COMPASS includes over 50 standard reports, most with multiple user selection criteria
• COMPASS enforces HIPAA-compliant data transactions and storage
• COMPASS can be set up to interact with PICK, CIM's portable information collection software.

Technical Details

COMPASS is a robust application using web-based, client/server and stand-alone software, all of which can either be hosted by CIM on its Oracle database server or deployed on a customer's Oracle server.

Users install the COMPASS application suite on any Windows desktop computer or portable computer (Windows98 SE, Windows 2000 and Windows XP)
Users connect to the CIM server using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection for encrypted transmissions (or equivalent for customer's server) 

COMPASS includes automated tools to process the following data components: 

• Client data - starting with a standardize eligibility determination process, the system tracks both initial assessments and ongoing assessments
• Status information - current program status of each person enrolled in COMPASS is tracked, including their current setting, assigned supports coordinator/case manager
• Plans of Care – results from person-centered planning process that describe consumer’s interests and needs, providing shared documentation  of interventions, goals and outcomes
• Care/Service Plans - structured plans for delivery of services, including multiple services, flexible service schedules, easy-to-read calendar reporting
• Bills - requests for payments from providers of in-home services are entered and processed against the care plan to verify that services comply with authorization