Friday, April 25, 2025
4/25/2025
SOUTH CAROLINA DATA INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT - The 2010 South Carolina Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grant for Quality Improvement continues the efforts to enhance data initiatives with the ultimate goal of using technology to help improve patient care, service delivery, decision making and performance measurement. This project provides ongoing support for Department efforts to improve data collection, access and reporting. The four goals of this proposal are: (1) enhance and expand routine reporting and data dissemination to the system, (2) develop accessible data tables from data collected through the outpatient EMR, (3) enhance training activities to improve data integrity and the understanding, need, and use of system data, and (4) produce client level datasets needed for URS/NOMS submissions. Despite extremely difficult budgetary times, the Department has made notable strides in the development of data systems that allow for the production and dissemination of data and has upgraded the mechanisms used for routine reporting. This project will continue these efforts. In addition, this project will bring together Department Information Technology (IT) and grant staff on the development of accessible data tables from outpatient EMR data. This will allow for the collection of increasingly richer and more complete data regarding the clinical experience of those we serve. Other data elements will also be incorporated into the system including veteran status and waiting list information. These grant activities will enhance the wealth of data available to the system as well as its dissemination and provide for training opportunities that will improve the data integrity and the understanding and uses of the data.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).