Services
We offer a wide variety of services.
COMMUNICATION & TRAINING
SERVICE
QRS provides communications and training services via tailored, onsite training programs, webinars, newsletters, website chat sessions, social media, eBlasts, and written syllabuses. These services are evaluation and documented using qualitative and quantitative user feedback surveys, and result in formal reports.
WEBSITE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
CREATIVE • SERVICE
QRS designs, develops and deploys websites for government and commercial clients. The websites convey extensive content via charts, tables and text. When needed, information and data resources are incorporated into the sites in a easy to use fashion, and always reflective of the clients’ missions and audience.
DATABASE DEVELOPMENT
DATABASE
QRS provides data resource and database development services for a range of government and private sector clients. QRS develops and hosts web-based databases as well as traditional systems accessible with MS Access, SAS, and other statistical software packages.
HEALTH SECTOR ANALYSIS
HEALTH
QRS has a strong record of providing targeted analyses of US health sector. Working with federal, regional and state governments as well as universities and private clients, QRS has produced reports, data books, statistical analyses, GIS analyses, data sets, and presentations on key health issues including reproductive health, oral health, and achievement of Healthy People 2010 and 2020 objectives. Products have ranged from local and state levels, to nation-wide efforts.
MAPPING AND GIS ANALYSIS
MAPPING • SERVICE
QRS has expertise in GIS analyses to assist researchers, policy makers and health care professionals. By defining key variables of interest and producing meaningful GIS analyses, clients can gain a better understanding of their data and can visually represent the relationship between key variables. Examples of QRS’ GIS analyses:
WOMEN’S AND MINORITY HEALTH
HEALTH
QRS has expertise in women’s and minority health issues. QRS developed Quick Health Data Online that provided analytical expertise to a number of state, regional and federal clients in this area. QRS’s work has included collecting, analyzing and disseminating data, defining health status indicators, assessing data relative to Healthy People goals, and providing training, support and technical assistance to data users. In addition, QRS has prepared a regional report on the health status of women and minority populations for each of the 10 DHHS Regions.
HEALTHY PEOPLE ASSESSMENT
HEALTH • PRIVATE SECTOR
QRS has helped a variety of clients in understanding and assessing progress toward Healthy People goals and objectives. In this regard, staff has processed and analyzed data related to natality, mortality, prevention, and chronic and infectious diseases to assess the extent to which Healthy People targets have been met.
PROGRAM EVALUATION
HEALTH • GOVERNMENT
For HRSA, QRS evaluated Title VII of the Public Health Service Act, related to the provision of primary care to underserved populations. The program provides funds to medical schools and medical residency programs to promote the selection of primary care specialties by physicians and to encourage physicians to choose practice locations that serve targeted populations. QRS also evaluated the CMS Physician Quality Reporting System by analyzing a year’s worth of individual physician reports.