Resource Access Card

The Resource Access Card (RAC) is a new way to follow participants in activities. The RAC allows community project organizers to record who did what and when with one blink of the tablet. The tool has been used in senior center programming as well as a widespread community intervention. The RAC provides an easy approach to defining utilization of services for needed population health statistics.

Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care has developed the RAC to meet the data needs of community-based organizations. The tablet format makes monitoring population engagement quickly and easily. A simple program allows the user to develop a unique activities program. Each participant has their own card with a bar code that creates the data trail necessary for program description and assessment.

The RAC system stores the data in the cloud and is readily available to the community agency user. The data can be downloaded to numerous analytic packages. No personal health information (PHI) is stored in the cloud; but the unique identifier allows for matching of the data from the RAC system with other PHI collected in other data systems. The information can be downloaded into medical records as a scanned document.

The program is simple to use and allows for variations in actual utilization strategies. The developers at Delmarva Foundation are happy to discuss such modifications with interested community organizations.

To get started with your RAC contact Barb Levin at [email protected].