How to choose an external vendor for your interRAI implementation
This section will help you choose an external vendor for your interRAI implementation.
The vendor software you use to collect and submit data needs to meet your business requirements for collection and integration with other systems.
What you can do
- Understand everyone’s role
- Find a licensed vendor
- Assess the IT capacity of your organization
- Prepare your request for proposals (RFP) for vendors
- Prepare your contract with the vendor
- Integrate your interRAI assessment data into an electronic health record
Changing vendors
What’s the impact on your data?
How AVÐÇÇò can help
- AVÐÇÇò provides data submission requirements and supporting documents for the interRAI data standard being implemented in your organization to licensed AVÐÇÇò vendors.
- AVÐÇÇò offers expertise in testing the proposals and submissions you receive from vendors, to ensure that they comply with the specifications.
- AVÐÇÇò provides additional information on acquiring a non-commercial vendor licence for organizations interested in becoming a non-commercial vendor.
The importance of data quality
Data quality is a collaborative effort and is part of the process every step of the way. Consider incorporating some of these data quality tools into your vendor software to assist with data quality initiatives at your organization:
- Current Canadian interRAI standard
- Clinical audit flags
- Assessment scheduler
- Data quality audits
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