The 1st World interRAI Conference provides an important forum that brings together researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the globe, using the interRAI system of instruments in community and home care, residential/long-term care, acute care, assisted living, mental health and palliative care. These evidence-based electronic instruments capture client/patient assessment information that is used to support care planning and delivery, quality improvement, health system management and policy development.
The conference had over 700 participants from 39 nations around the world giving or listening to 250 presentations in 8 concurrent and 4 plenary session, all regarding the use of interRAI data for care planning, research, and policymaking. That was followed by a private meeting of Dr. Fries’s research consortium for 3 days, to forward his work on assessment and data-driven decision making.
InterRAI has now been in operation for over 20 years. Dr. Fries is a founder and is its President. interRAI instruments are the national assessments (in either nursing home or home care) in six nations and the home care assessment for 24 US states, as well as the national US instrument for nursing homes. It has been calculated that, overall (and conservatively estimated), over 188 million of interRAI’s assessmenst have been performed – if on paper and laid end-to-end, they would reach to the moon. InterRAI assessments now covers virtually every health care sector: from infants, to children, to adults, to older persons; developmental disability to mental health, well persons in the community to acute care, to rehab, to palliative care.
To view more about the conference, please visit: http://www.worldinterrai.org/