Updated MONAHRQ® Software Offers Reporting on Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Physicians; Informational Webinar April 8

AHRQ launched version 6.0 of MONAHRQ®, software for creating customized websites for internal quality improvement or reporting quality information to the public, on April 1. The tool significantly reduces the time and money organizations would spend on compiling, analyzing and posting comparison reports on health care quality, cost and utilization. The new release is available at no cost and features new reports on trending, nursing homes and physicians; the ability to input new data sources, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Nursing Home Compare and Physician Compare; a new open source framework that enables users to format more data sets for use with MONAHRQ and design their own report templates; an infographic report on safe surgery; guided education for consumers; and an improved user interface that makes the software easier to use. A webinar will be held April 8 from 4 to 5 p.m. ET to inform host users about how to get the most out of the software. Registration is open.

MONAHRQ® is a desktop software tool that enables organizations - such as state and local data organizations, regional reporting collaborations, hospitals and hospital systems, nursing homes and nursing home organizations, and health plans - to quickly and easily generate a health care reporting Website quickly and easily. MONAHRQ® analyzes, summarizes, and presents the following information in a format ready for use by consumers and other health care decision makers on:

NEW! - Quality of care (Nursing Homes)
NEW! - Physician data
Quality of care (at the Hospital level)
Health care utilization (at the Hospital level and Emergency Department level)
Preventable hospitalizations (at the Area level)
Rates of conditions and procedures (at the Area level), and
Estimated costs and cost-savings (related to the quality of care)

MONAHRQ® lets you create a Website using your own inpatient discharge data, emergency department data, pre-calculated AHRQ Quality Indicators results, inpatient and outpatient measures from CMS Nursing Home and Hospital Compare, and/or HCAHPS survey measures.

Any organization can use MONAHRQ® to generate a reporting Website. You simply:

Download MONAHRQ® software
Load your data
Select Website options
Generate the Website on your own computer
Host the Website yourself

For a full demonstration Website generated by MONAHRQ, visit theMONAHRQ® 6.0 demo site.

For links to live reporting Websites generated using MONAHRQ, visit the MONAHRQ® Websites page.

For detailed documentation on measures and methods used by MONAHRQ® download the Host User Guide 6.0 [

- 10.35 MB] . For information on how toimprove health care quality in key areas, visit the My Quality Improvementpage.

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Page last reviewed March 2015

Internet Citation: MONAHRQ. March 2015. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/monahrq/index.html