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Our MHSIP mission: tto foster and enhance the quality and scope of information for decisions that will improve the quality of life and recovery of people with mental illness.

48th Southern Regional Conference on Mental Health Statistics Presentations are now available online. All files are in PDF format.

Watch the Presentations from The National Summit on Defining a Strategy for Behavioral Health Information Management and Its Role within the Nationwide Health Information Infrastructure
And now you can read the proceedings just released by SATVA, one of the summit co-sponsors.

New Report on Measuring and Reporting Quality Released

"Promising Practices in Behavioral Health Quality Improvement: Summary of Key Findings and Lessons Learned" is based on a targeted literature review, web-based research, a comparative analysis of national mental health measurement sets, interviews with national experts in the field of Behavioral Health Quality Measurement and Reporting Systems (QMRS), interviews with SMHA Commissioners and other staff at four best practice states, and interviews with administrators at two best practice organizations. Click here to view

Findings and lessons learned are reported as they relate to four research questions.

What national initiatives, accreditation, and regulatory requirements should state mental health authorities (SMHAs) be aware of in developing a behavioral health quality measurement system?
What are the key management and infrastructure components a SMHA needs to build into a QMRS?
How are quality measures selected, and what measures should be used?
How do states implement and use their QMRS to improve quality?

The University of Massachusetts Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) would like to thank the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) for their permission to disseminate this report on behavioral health quality measurement and reporting systems via the MHSIP website. CHPR took the initial work, conducted on behalf of DMH, one step further by developing a 5-10 year high-level implementation plan or roadmap, which is also included in this report. Any questions or comments on the report can be directed to sabine.hedberg@umassmed.edu

Topics

Data Infrastructure Grant Guidance for Uniform Reporting (URS)

State Data Infrastructure Grants Coordinating Center
   Fiscal Year 2004
          Word Documents:
          Check List 2004
          Data Definitions 2004
          Basic Tables 2004
          Developmental Tables 2004
          SMI and SED Estimates for 2003

          Excel Tables:
          Basic Tables 2004
          Developmental Tables 2004

    Fiscal Year 2003
          2003 URS Tables
          2003 Updated Uniform Data Definitions
          2003 URS DIG Data Checklist
          08/07/2003

Links

Alphabet Soup--confused by all the acronyms used in government, HIPAA implementation documents, and everywhere else you turn? The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, Inc. has taken a step to help you out. Just go to the following URL for an extensive list of acronyms and their "de-cryption" into understandable words. They even have links to other acronym sites: http://www.mahealthdata.org/data/library/acronym.html

Featured Papers

Updated June 2003
Socioeconomic Conditions, Stress and Mental Disorders: Toward a New Synthesis of Research and Public Policy. The papers in this collection examine recent research on relationships among socio-economic conditions, mental health, and mental disorder. They focus either on the �social stress process� as a mechanism in these relationships-- exposure to stress and the use of personal and social resources in coping with stress-- or on the influence of the larger context(s) on the way this mechanism works-- in particular, the socio-economic conditions of people�s lives and the settings in which they interact with others. Obstacles to translating basic knowledge into efficacious preventive strategies, and efficacious strategies into effective population and service interventions, are explored throughout.

Presentations

Decision Support 2000+
A New Conceptual Model: One Information System Serving Many Purposes

@ www.mhsip.org, you can:

learn what MHSIP is all about;
view the online MHSIP calendar to see what events are coming up for MHSIP;
read the MHSIP news, current MHSIP events, and announcements related to MHSIP;
see what projects MHSIP is currently involved in, including: FN-11, Enrollment/Encounter Data, Consumer Surveys, Report Card Indicators, or see the State MHSIP Contacts, MHSIP State Reform and Indicator Pilot Grant summaries;
access documents using the online MHSIP library, which included FN-11, FN-10, Humanizing Decision Support, Enhancing MHSIP to Meet the Needs of Children, Report Card Toolkit, and more MHSIP information;
meet the MHSIP Policy Group, read a little history about MHSIP and read its operational guidelines;
in the MHSIP User Group section, get a list of names and email addresses of all the different MHSIP Regional User Groups;
you can also look at some great links from the MHSIP pages, search our MHSIP website, see what's new at MHSIP, or view the MHSIP sitemap.
State Indicator Pilot Project Page Review conference call minutes; See which states are members.

Clickable map to view State Indicator Pilot Grants,
State Reform Grants, MHSIP Contacts,
Regional User Groups, and State Websites

The Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program (MHSIP) was developed to improve the quality of decision making for all mental health stakeholders through guidance and technical assistance on the design, structure, content, and use of mental health information systems.

MHSIP provides uniform, comparable statistical information about mental health services to enable broad-based research on systems of care and models for service delivery

MHSIP is the only program in the Nation focusing on the need for and development of data standards for high-quality statistical information on mental health services

Development of the MHSIP website was funded in part by a grant from the Center for Mental Health Services

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