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interRAI group develops and leases a set of licensed healthcare assessment software tools, analyses and manages data, used in health settings. From its origins in the 1980s at the University of Michigan, the groups now serves healthcare organizations "in nearly half of the US states and in several countries".

Mandate
"interRAI is a collaborative network of researchers and practitioners in over 35 countries committed to improving care for persons who are disabled or medically complex. Our consortium strives to promote evidence-informed clinical practice and policy decision making through the collection and interpretation of high- quality data about the characteristics and outcomes of persons served across a variety of health and social services settings."

History
interRAI group traces its origins to the 1980s in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan. Brant Fries, now interRAI director, started developing algorithms for nursing homes. By 2018, interAIM's suites of assessment tools were being used in about 50 per cent of states and in several countries. interRAI group licenses the suites or tools to "software vendors for a royalty.” Users "send data back to InterRAI."

Momentum AMS
Momentum AMS, is a web-based, interoperable, software application used to manage and administer standardized healthcare assessments, which was established in 1995 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Momentum AMS applications are used in "decision making and care planning ability of healthcare practitioners". They have "deployed" their "application across regional, provincial, and national healthcare systems​".

Momentum uses interRAI's integrated suite of assessment tool to "identify the needs of individuals with illness or disabilities through specific assessment instruments. interRAI instruments are built on a core set of assessment criteria that are important in all care settings. The common items are assessed the same, regardless of the assessment application. Additional assessment criteria is then added to the common items and are specific to a particular illness, disability, or care setting." The suite of interRAI Assessments tools include interRAI Acute Care – Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment system, interRAI Acute Care assessment system, interRAI Brief Mental Health Screener, interRAI Child & Youth Mental Health assessment system, interRAI Child & Youth Mental Health Developmental Disabilities assessment system, interRAI Community Health Assessment system, interRAI Community Mental Health assessment system, interRAI Contact Assessment, interRAI Emergency Department Contact Assessment, interRAI Emergency Psychiatric Screener, interRAI Family &amp; Caregiver Needs Assessment, interRAI Home Care assessment system, interRAI Intellectual Disability assessment system, interRAI Long Term Care Facility assessment system, interRAI Mental Health (Inpatient) assessment system, interRAI Palliative Care assessment system, interRAI Pediatric Home Care assessment system, interRAI Post-Acute Care Rehabilitation assessment system, interRAI Preliminary Screener, interRAI Quality of Life Surveys, and interRAI Wellness."