A concept in Making

The Ohio Mental Health Consumer Outcomes System is an ongoing endeavor to obtain measures for consumers served by Ohio’s public mental health system. Consumers outcomes provide important information for management of consumer care, the improvement of the service delivery system, and accountability for public resources.

Designing the Outcomes Data Mart

Putting data into system accomplishes little if one can’t get it back out. Therefore one of the key piece of the overall outcomes system is web-based Outcomes Data Mart that allows users to generate reports based upon Outcomes data that have collected throughout the state and submitted to ODMH.

Data Mart design principals

The following principles were adopted by statewide Outcomes Data Mart Committee:

1. Non-Technical Users
2. Ease of use
3. Decision-support design
4. No-within-Consumer design
5. Confidentiality

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