Welcome to the New and Improved!

Q-HIPWeb Tool

Web Addresshttp://www.q-hip.com

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Enter your user name & Password

Select Reporting Period

GA, NY, TN & VA Hospitals Select:Q3 2011- Q2 2012

CO, CT, ME, MO, NH, NV & WI Hospitals Select:Q1 2012- Q4 2012

Passwords are case sensitive

QUESTIONNAIRE (The format of this section will stay the same)

The left menu bar holds the

Questionnaire Section & Admin Tools

The white screen on the right is still used to

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QUESTIONNAIRE:HOSPITAL DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

The ‘Hospital Demographic Information’ page now has a field to add the phone number of the hospital administrator

A new question has been added regarding ‘Inpatient Surgical services.’

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QUESTIONNAIREOverall major section changes

NEW! Tabs at the top of the screen allows the user to move easily from one RFI (Request for Information) to another

NEW! Questions have Yes/No responses NEW! ‘Save Answer & Continue’ button

New! ‘Do Not Wish to Participate’ option (when applicable)

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QUESTIONNAIREOverall major section changes

Please note: the question tabs are now color codedRed

Green

Yellow

- Question Not Answered

- Question Answered

- Question Incomplete (only for HAC section)6

QUESTIONNAIREOverall major section changes

Upload Files:

•New! Hospitals may now upload multiple files for each question

•Each file is automatically saved once the ‘Upload’ button is clicked

•To upload more than one document for the same measure, select the ‘Browse…’ button

•New! There is now an ‘Upload Help’ button that allows the user to troubleshoot files that may be difficult to upload

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QUESTIONNAIREOverall major section changes

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‘Comments’ Tab

NEW! Hospitals can now view and respond to a comment from the PAV, per question directly from the Questionnaire page

NEW! A color coded system of arrows indicates if comments listed were sent by the PAV (red arrow) or by the hospital (green arrow)

The primary Q-HIP contact will still receive an e-mail notification that a comment has been made by the PAV

NEW! The e-mail message received when comments are sent by PAV now reads: “Comment has been added by PAV in the XXX section.”

‘Comments’ Cont’d

Another method of viewing and responding to comments is to use the ‘Review Hospital Data’ section of the web tool

Under the ‘Admin’ section, choose ‘Review Hospital Data’

Then choose the section in which the email indicates comments are made (ex. IHI Improvement Map)

Then click on the ‘comments’ tab to review your comments

There’s a ‘Go To Question to Reply to Comments’ link which takes you back to the questionnaire page where you can reply to that comment

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ADMINOverall major section changes

Documentation Examples

Each question has a ‘Documentation Examples’ tab, found on the bottom of the page, with specific examples for what is needed for that measure

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Evaluation Criteria

Each question has an ‘Evaluation Criteria’ tab, found on the bottom of

the page for each specific question on the web tool

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ADMIN TOOLSOverall Major Changes

Review Hospital Data

Hospitals can now view comments in this section for any question

Click on the ‘Go to Question to Reply to Comments’ link, which returns the user to the Questionnaire section where the hospital can review comments and reply to the PAV

A color coded system of arrows indicates if comments listed were sent by the PAV (red arrow) or by the hospital (green arrow)

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ADMIN TOOLSOverall Major Changes

All Evaluation Criteria

NEW! Hospitals can now print all criteria for each section without the ‘Met/Not Met/Not Applicable/Not Evaluated’ grid

The printed document is something that can be used as a clean worksheet by the hospital

THANK YOU !

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For Any Questions, Please Contact Your Validation Specialist:

Vicki Jolenavicki@vhi.org

Freda Bordersfreda@vhi.org