What do I need to do?
Step 1: Train your employees
OASIS C includes many changes. Questions have been added, removed, and modified. Be sure that your staff knows the questions and how to interpret them before they begin using the new assessments.For resources that you might use in your training, see the previous section of this document titled "Where can I find more information?"
Your employees must be ready to use the new question set by January 1, 2010.
Step 2: Update your software
Call Lewis Support at (888)762-2382 to schedule your office server update as early as possible.After the office server has been updated, the year-end release must be installed on your clinician field devices. There are three options for updating field devices:
- Automatic Update. Updates can be automatically installed when a user replicates (synchronizes) the field device.
- Device Update CD. You can request CDs to manually update Patron Point of Care field devices
- Downloaded Update Files. You can also download the device update from the Lewis Inside Track. Contact Lewis Support at (888)762-2382 for additional assistance with this option.
The mandate requires that the office server and all field devices are updated no later than December 31.
Step 3: Begin using the OASIS C question set
Implementation of OASIS C is required effective January 1, 2010.If you have installed the update, the device application will automatically switch to the new question set on January 1, 2010. Any assessment created before that date will use OASIS B1, and any assessment created on or after that date will use OASIS C.
In the office application, the OASIS version is determined by question M0090 (Date Assessment Completed). Any assessment with a M0090 date before January 1, 2010 will use OASIS B1, and any assessment with a M0090 date on or after that date will use OASIS C.
What changes will I see?
DISCLAIMER: The examples included on this site are not exhaustive, and do not offer any interpretation of the questions. See the previous section titled "Where can I find more information?" for resources that can help with interpreting and answering assessment questions.
OASIS Versioning on Field Devices
On January 1, 2010, updated field devices will automatically switch to the new question set. Any assessment created before that date will use OASIS B1, and any assessment created on or after that date will use OASIS C.OASIS Versioning in the Office
After the year-end update has been installed, a new dialog appears when creating an assessment.
- If M0090 is 12/31/2009 or earlier, OASIS B1 questions will be available.
- If M0090 is 01/01/2010 or later, OASIS C questions will be available.
Changed Numbers
Most questions have been assigned new numbers. For example, the patient’s primary diagnosis in OASIS B1 was question M0230. In OASIS C, that question is now M1020.
OASIS B1
OASIS C
Modified Questions
Some questions have been modified. For example, question M0400 has been split into two questions, M1210 and M1220. OASIS B1
OASIS C
Question M0450 has been modified and also renumbered as M1308.
OASIS B1
OASIS C
Several of the activities of daily living (ADL/IADL) questions no longer track prior status at the individual question level, such as M0640. The prior functioning items have been combined into the new question M1900.
