Client: National Institute on Aging (NIA)

iRetire is a Web-based, interactive retirement planning tool to help individuals plan current and future health benefits options and costs. It is being built under a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract funded by the National Institute on Aging. Using a comprehensive set of expert decision rules to determine current healthcare coverage and eligibility for a variety of public or private health benefits (including Medicare, Medicaid, public, and private insurance benefits), the product draws from a national database to recommend optimal health insurance plan types for an individual, creating, in effect, a healthcare coverage "portfolio." The tool saves this portfolio and allows the user to go back to the questions, change responses, and develop alternative portfolios to examine the effects of different responses on health plan alternatives and costs of these alternatives.

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Client: Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

e-Prevention is a site developed for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration/Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA/CSAP) and the Strategic Prevention Framework Advancement and Support (SPFAS) project to support SAMHSA and CSAP's implementation of the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) in State substance abuse prevention agencies. e-Prevention tracks State systems development and services provided by CSAP/SPFAS to strengthen State system development through training and technical assistance (T/TA) and system reviews (site visits). The online database currently includes a system review tracking module for each site visit, a document library, and an enhanced prevention National Outcome Measures (NOMs) and the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant data reporting tool that can display trends up to 3 reporting years. e-Prevention also houses directories for State representatives, CSAP staff, SPFAS staff, and consultants. In the coming months, e-Prevention will include information gleaned from State-developed Annual Synar Reports, a streamlined feed into CSAP's T/TA Tracker (also developed in-house) for the T/TA process; a State Profile module (a snapshot of a State's infrastructure and NOMs); and a module to assist CSAP in tracking State systems change over time.

e-Prevention

Client: Grief Brothers Corporation

The JBS CMS is a customizable, Web-based service developed to manage safety, health, environmental, and risk management reporting. CMS provides the management tools necessary to demonstrate compliance and removes "risk" of guesswork from risk management in helping organizations answer regulatory compliance audits.

This system was developed with and for the demanding real-world regulatory compliance needs of the Corporate Safety and Environmental Manager for Greif Brothers Corporation, a global manufacturing company with 183 locations and 9,400 employees in 43 countries.

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Client: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

In 2006, CDC awarded JBS a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract to build a Web-based system to collect tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic and treatment data and provide surveillance, patient management, and CDC/World Health Organization treatment reports for public health workers in Pacific Island Jurisdictions (PIJs). During Phase I, JBS built a prototype of the system and field tested it in trials in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

The end product of Phase I became a fully functional interactive Web application called TBPacific that (1) accommodated data entry of the CDC's Reported Case of Tuberculosis form and the Follow-up 1 and Follow-up 2 forms, the primary instruments for collecting surveillance data on TB, and (2) allowed users to create surveillance reports, graphs, and maps of TB in their jurisdictions using historical data obtained from CDC.

A Phase II contract, awarded in September 2008, will extend and complete the system, adding immediately needed functionality and reliability and providing for system operations. Specifically, this Phase II project will add data and improve the data collection reliability and usability; add topics and analyses to existing reports; enroll, train, and operate the system in all PIJs; provide online training, online help, and local user administration; and assess the effect on PIJ users.

Results of Phase I Effort