Data

The Mid-Atlantic Renal Coalition is required by contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to maintain provider/facility as well as patient demographic information, collect, analyze, and validate the data, submit annual reports reflecting public data, and to track ESRD treatment changes for all patients treated in the Network 5 area (District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia). 

MARC currently uses the Standard Information Management System (SIMS) to maintain collected data, as we transition into CROWNWeb.  SIMS was developed under Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contract by ESRD Network 6, to maintain facility demographic and patient-specific information. SIMS has been fully implemented by all Networks since the first quarter of 2000, and creates a common platform for data storage, allowing easier and more timely access to national data. Data for all national ESRD patients are stored at a central repository, housed in Baltimore, MD, that combines all Networks' data and is easily accessible through electronic retrieval.