Understand everyone’s role in choosing a vendor
interRAI, CIHI, your software vendor and your organization all have roles and responsibilities when it comes to system implementation.
interRAI
Develops and owns the intellectual property in the interRAI assessment system
Provides a licence to users, including
- Commercial software vendors
- Non-commercial users that wish to adopt interRAI tools
CIHI
Maintains Canadian standards and specifications and distributes them to licensed
- Commercial vendors
- Organizations
Vendor
Becomes licensed with CIHI and interRAI
Provides and supports the contracted software solution at your organization
Your organization
Defines requirements that will meet organizational and jurisdictional business processes for
- Data collection
- Reporting
- Submission to CIHI
Contact us
For general questions
For clinical questions
How to cite:
Canadian Institute for Health Information. Understand everyone’s role in choosing a vendor. Accessed April 25, 2025.
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