MONAHRQ 1.0 Fact Sheet

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MONAHRQ is downloadable computer software that enables organizations to input their own hospital administrative data and generate a datadriven Web site. How you use MONAHRQ is up to you—your data on your Web site.

What does MONAHRQ do?

MONAHRQ software analyzes, summarizes, and presents information on:

Who can use MONAHRQ?

State and local data organizations, hospital associations, Chartered Value Exchanges, health plans, providers, and others can use MONAHRQ. As long as you have hospital administrative data, you can use MONAHRQ.

How can MONAHRQ be used?

MONAHRQ can be used to meet data analysis and reporting needs and to better understand health care in areas and hospitals. You can use MONAHRQ in many ways. You can:

How does MONAHRQ work?

Any organization with hospital administrative data can use MONAHRQ to generate a Web site for internal use or public release.

MONAHRQ is based on and incorporates several of AHRQ’s most popular tools:

You can download MONAHRQ to your own computer, populate it with your own hospital administrative data, perform all analyses locally, and then generate your own Web site.

The Web site created by MONAHRQ contains thousands of HTML pages that summarize information in tables and maps. It also includes an interactive query tool that users can navigate to access the HTML pages and learn about health care in their area.

Sample Web site generated by MONAHRQ

Software requirements

MONAHRQ is a single-user desktop application that runs on computers with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or higher operating systems.

The following software is required before installing MONAHRQ and is available for download from the MONAHRQ Web site:

MONAHRQ requires a SQL Server database to store data. It has been tested on two versions of Microsoft SQL Server (2005 and 2008). Each of these versions of Microsoft SQL Server has several editions ranging from SQL Server Express (free on the MONAHRQ Web site) to the Data Center version. Microsoft SQL Server can be installed on your PC or accessed over a network.

Disk space requirements

Approximate disk space requirements for all MONAHRQ components are:

For more information

The MONAHRQ User Guide provides step-by-step illustrated instructions for checking your system, downloading the software, importing your data, analyzing your data, building your Web site, and customizing your Web site.

To sign up for notices about MONAHRQ or for more information, e-mail monahrq@ahrq.gov. To download MONAHRQ and the User Guide, visit www.monahrq.ahrqq.gov.