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 Quarter 2 | 2021
MOTS Replacement
The MOTS Replacement Request for Proposals (RFP) was posted for 53 days and closed on June 11, 2021. The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has formed an RFP evaluation committee to begin evaluating the proposals.
Behavioral Health Data Warehouse
Contract negotiations continue with the apparent successful proposer Deloitte Consulting, LLP. In parallel, data governance and onboarding activities are in progress to efficiently support the upcoming deliverables and milestones negotiated within the contract.
What is the Behavioral Health Data Warehouse?
There has been some confusion about the Behavioral Health Data Warehouse and provider reporting. The good news is that behavioral health providers will not need to submit any data to this system.
Today, OHA receives a variety of data, each with its own purpose. The largest data sets are:
- Medicaid data from MMIS,
- Behavioral health data from MOTS,
- Acute care data from Acute Care Reporting (ACR) and
- Oregon State Hospital data from Avatar.
All these systems are more or less siloed. Outside these state systems, there are:
- Many Excel spreadsheets and Word templates submitted quarterly for contractual reasons.
- Other reporting systems like RedCAP.
To meet reporting requirements, OHA must often use one or more of these separate data sets. It is difficult to be accurate or track outcomes as people move from program to program and from data system to data system.
To address these concerns, the warehouse will be the primary location for all behavioral health data collected by OHA. Each system will contribute data to the warehouse, with a client index to match data in separate systems together. Part of the MOTS replacement work is to reintegrate program data into the system that collects behavioral health information.
This should enhance our reporting capacity and allow us to provide better and timely reporting to program staff, the legislature and federal partners.
Ideally the warehouse would require less reporting from providers, since data currently submitted in spreadsheets and Word templates may already be in the warehouse from other sources.
Problem Gambling System Replacement
The new problem gambling system launches this July
The Problem Gambling Network (PG Net) is Oregon’s new web-based data collection system for problem gambling treatment programs.
The Compass team has been working to replace the previous problem gambling data collection system, GPMS. PG Net is scheduled to launch this July.
Successful evaluation of Oregon's statewide program depends on the ability to consistently collect data from program clients and concerned others. PG Net will collect this data using standard reporting elements so that OHA can:
- Evaluate all programs consistently, and
- Direct policy and practice to design and implement a system of excellence to serve Oregonians with problem gambling treatment needs.
PG Net data will allow program staff to conduct ongoing evaluation and analysis in the following areas:
- Demographics of clients utilizing services throughout the state.
- Effectiveness of the services provided.
- How treatments offered by client demographics relate to treatment success.
- How treatment cost and utilization factors apply to treatment success.
- Local programs' compliance to contractually required performance standards and metrics.
To learn more about PG Net, or to register for an upcoming training visit the PG Net web page.
 
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