Why Use MONAHRQ for Health Care Reporting ?

1. Why Use MONAHRQ forHealth Care Reporting? • July 2016 • Note: This is one of eight slide sets outlining MONAHRQ and its value, • available atwww.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/monahrq/resources/

2. What Is MONAHRQ? Windows-based software from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that can help you and your organization create your own website-based, comparative health care performance reports. • Evidence-based – uses measures, data sources, and reporting techniques that are based on the latest research • Quick – generates websites and reports in hours or days, not months • Easy – designed to be intuitive so no training is needed to use it • Flexible – allows customization to ensure that the websites and reports are relevant • Free – provided at no cost to anyone who wants to produce health care performance websites and reports The purpose of MONAHRQ is to help increase transparency by disseminating evidence-based information that is understandable and useful for improving health care safety, quality, and affordability. For more information, see the “What Is MONAHRQ?” presentation.

3. Reasons Why People Use MONAHRQ • To meet transparency requirements • To help earn performance-based payment and other incentives • To efficiently create effective websites and reports • To validate data and check for errors • To share health care performance and quality improvement information internally and/or externally • To align efforts using evidence-based, nationally recognized measures

4. What’s Involved in Measuring and Reporting on Health Care? People use MONAHRQ because it is an evidence-based, low-cost way to produce effective health care websites and reports. Without MONAHRQ, the typical steps during the measurement and reporting process can be complex, time consuming, and expensive.

5. Options for Creating Health Care Performance Reports Use national reports from the Federal Government or others • Reports may be free but difficult to customize to meet your unique needs Create your own websites and reports • Requires significant staff time, financial resources, and technical knowledge; may not be consistent with other reporting entities Use MONAHRQ • Easily use measures and data to generate websites and reports on health care safety, quality, and affordability; reports reflect the latest research; allows for extensive customization

6. MONAHRQ Websites MONAHRQ can generate two types of websites designed for specific audiences For use by medical clinicians, administrators, policymakers, researchers, and analysts, with detailed statistics For use by consumers and the general public, with infographicsand guided education

7. Examples of MONAHRQ Reports Estimated cost savings by reducing avoidable hospital stays Hospital utilization and costs for top diagnosis related groups Physician profiles, with hospital affiliation and medical group ratings based on patient experience surveys Nursing home profiles, plus reports on quality of care, inspection results, staffing, and patient experience Annual and quarterly trending reports on utilization, showing changes over time • Individual hospital profiles, with an overall patient experience rating and a list of the highest cost DRGs • Quality of care comparisons across hospitals, including patient experience ratings • Emergency department (ED) utilization • Potentially avoidable hospitalizations by county • Hospital use rates for conditions and procedures, by county and/or region

8. What Else Can You Do With MONAHRQ? • Establish a datasets library from your data in addition to Federal data and other sources • Select for reporting an array of hospital measures (quality, utilization, patient experience, cost), nursing home measures (quality, health inspections, staffing, patient experience), and physician information (profiles, admitting, medical group practice, patient experience) • Customize measure information (title, description, etc.), report details, and your website “look and feel,” then save to easily re-use them later • Optimize your MONAHRQ-generated website so it can be found by search engines, and get feedback from people who use your website and reports • Easily update websites and reports and include new measures • Use the Open Source Framework to import new data sources and design new reports to customize your MONAHRQ reports

9. MONAHRQ Limitations MONAHRQ is not intended to do certain things • The software is not a tool for detailed statistical analysis and calculation using raw data • The software cannot create or replace electronic medical records or patient registries

10. How Is MONAHRQ Evolving? • MONAHRQ was first released in 2010 and has evolved over time to: • Respond to a rapidly changing health care environment • Capitalize on opportunities to create more value by adding data sources, measures, and other features enabled by advances in technology • The current version of MONAHRQ is 7, which was released in July 2016 and is the final iteration of the software. No subsequent versions will be released in 2017. • To make the most of MONAHRQ’s flexibility, see the slide set: “Using MONAHRQ’s Open Source Framework.”

11. What Support Is Available for People Who Use MONAHRQ? A comprehensive Host User Guide • Available at http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/monahrq/resources/ • Also built into the software itself, so you can get right to the information you need when you are using MONAHRQ Quick Start Guide, Fact Sheet, and Other Materials • Available at http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/monahrq/resources/ Personalized technical assistance and connection with other Host Users • Technical assistance from the MONAHRQ team: http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/monahrq/contact/index.html • Opportunities to connect with other Host Users on webinars or calls

12. For Further Information Visit http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/monahrq/resources/to access these additional slide sets: • What is the Value of Health Care Measurement and Reporting? • What Is MONAHRQ? • How To Get Started With MONAHRQ • What Types of Websites and Reports Can MONAHRQ Generate? • Who Can Use MONAHRQ? • Using MONAHRQ’s Open Source Framework • Future Plans for MONAHRQ and How To Get Involved To receive updates about MONAHRQ, ask to join our listserv by emailing monahrq@ahrq.gov