ROMS Benefits

ROMS is the most advanced system for the SPMI population, taking advantage of state-of-the-art technologies to deliver actionable case-level data to plan and monitor treatment for SPMI adults while providing a database for evidence-based practice guidelines.

ROMS is intended to help providers perform each of the functions required for continuous quality improvement:

• Initial patient evaluation
• Determination of medical necessity for treatment
• Treatment planning
• Monitoring of patient progress and satisfaction
• Assessment of severity and nature of consumer’s symptoms and the impact on consumer’s functioning
• Detection of critical conditions (e.g., danger to self or others, psychosis)

Consumers

• Are able to participate in treatment planning and management
• Receive effective treatment, appropriate to their condition

Clinicians

• Are provided with real-time, clinically actionable reports of the consumer and caregiver’s data
• Specialized clinical report provides severity, consumer strengths, and diagnostics/risk adjuster data that can be used to help plan consumer treatment, meet service utilization requirements, and monitor ongoing critical risks to recovery
• Can discuss reports with consumers to motivate the consumer and strengthen the therapeutic bond
• Helps to determine whether treatment is “working”

Office Staff

• Requires little training to use system software
• Experiences minimal increase in their work load
• Is provided with software tools for the efficient management of data collection

Program managers/administrators

• Needs, values and priorities identified by directors of Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) are addressed
• Can use reports for clinician training/development or for supervision
• Can obtain standardized, reliable, severity adjusted outcomes data
• Helps to identify clinician’s strengths and weaknesses (e.g., for staff development, differential referral)
• May use the system as the foundation for meaningful CQI initiatives
• May use aggregate data for proposals and to respond to payers or accreditation requirements
• Evaluates innovative treatment methods

Payers

• Can enhance, and reduce staff time required for, utilization review
• Receive standardized and clinically relevant information about program performance
• Are able to document the quality of the care that they purchase