Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths(CANS) Software Solutions for Improved Service Decision Making
The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) instrument is a tool developed to help organizations accurately make decisions about appropriate services for children and adolescents while minimizing costs and maximizing effectiveness. The CANS has been shown to be an effective tool that can provide significant benefits to both children, adults, and those who serve them. The CANS specifically addresses problems in non standard level of care decision making while at the same time providing baseline data for outcome measurement.
Organizations can address these issues quickly and efficiently with OA CANS Software. OA provides a full range of CANS software development services for CANS Instrument Automation:
- Electronic Data Collection
- Integration of the CANS into workflow
- Security and confidential data protection
- CANS Administration History and Audit Trail
- Integrating CANS into business processes of any domain such as residential treatment management or case management
- Reporting and analysis on CANS from an individual and aggregate perspective
- Using the CANS for agency performance tracking
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SMR is built on the premise that organizations solve problems in similar ways. We try to
measure, not necessarily to get a perfect answer, but to have a better handle on how we can
approach a problem or challenge, and then design a solution...
Health Care providers face many different challenges that require them to measure
in a new way. New regulations and reporting requirements appear frequently, aimed
at decreasing the cost of care. In order to maintain margins providers have to be
more efficient in how they manage data....
One core principle of the SMR platform is that users should only
enter the data required to solve the problem at hand. We strive
to give the user the ability to achieve the maximum output, advice,
and analytics from the minimum data entry burden possible....
Readmission Rates will be a critical issue for hospitals in 2012. Any readmission in less
than 30 days will result in a financial penalty to the hospital. This problem lends itself well
to a data driven approach to both monitoring and improvement. SMRs newest module initiative
Speed to implementation is perhaps our most important metric. Every implementation
is different, but our goal is to build a customized implementation of the SMR platform,
with minimal work for the user overnight. We are constantly driving towards "Instant On" benefits
from our systems.