System Components

1) Hardware (i.e. the devices used to administer surveys, to process and store data, and produce reports).

2) Software that provides for questionnaire administration, data processing, data base management, report generation, and various other administrative functions.

3) Questionnaires:

• Patient Intake: Provides detailed information for treatment planning

• Patient Update: Provides information concurrently with treatment about the patient’s condition, progress, and satisfaction with treatment.

• Counselor Intake/Update/Discharge: Provides for counselor assessment of the patient’s condition, progress, and prognosis (e.g., for utilization review).

4) Procedures for administering the patient questionnaires that include a manual describing how to install and use the system.

5) Reports that provide information for clinical decision support (individual patient reports) and for outcomes assessment (program level aggregate data).