UDS means Uniform Data system. They are basically a core set of information that are required to review the operation and performance of a Health Center. We developed an exception report in order to check whether the reports that we generate are appropriate. Usually the grantees should submit their UDS report by Feb 15 of each year in order to ensure adequate time for review and correction of data errors prior to final submission which is March 31.
For more information please look at http://www.hrsa.gov/data-statistics/health-center-data/index.html#what
I have been working on UDS reporting for the past 2 years. The first year we spent a lot of time in creating the reports and now that is stable, the second year we added drill downs on the reports and updated the report with the changes from UDS committee 2009. Moving forward; the 3rd year 2010, I designed this exception report because most of the issues that we came across in 2009 we based on the work flow, undefined data, improper capturing of data etc.
Will try to put in a example of the exception report idea that we implemented.
