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Integrating Medical Records with Your OMS
Best practices in the Corrections industry have developed over decades to incorporate the concept of a single unified record for each offender; a unique case file that includes the complete and detailed history of an offender’s relationship with a corrections agency. That an inmate’s medical and treatment history should be a part of this unified record is ever more important in an age of increasingly complex health records’ legislation, an aging and sickening inmate population, constantly increasing health care costs, and the ongoing threat of inmate lawsuits.
To meet this need, Syscon has developed a sophisticated and corrections-specific Electronic Health Records (EHR) system that is fully integrated within our comprehensive Jail Management solution. Syscon’s Elite EHR comes with industry-leading ease-of-use features and yet is efficiently designed with advanced methodologies to meet your current and evolving medical management, reporting and privacy requirements.
The Elite EHR system has been developed specifically for corrections agencies. As a result, all aspects of the system are based on corrections best practices and are tightly integrated with the key features and functions inherent within the Elite JMS. As a result, the medical intake process can be tightly integrated with an agency’s standard booking procedure through use of customizable workflow features. This allows medical intake to occur at any point in the overall booking process or it can be maintained as a totally independent business process. The efficiently designed integration between correctional and medical information eliminates redundancy in data capture and provides instantaneous access to information subject to system security user profiles. Furthermore, a complete history of key inmate health information is available to medical personnel at all times.
Syscon’s integrated JMS/EHR package eliminates the possibility of scheduling conflicts by utilizing a unified scheduling module. All scheduled activities (courts dates, internal hearings, program events, education classes, classification meetings, medical referrals and appointments, etc.) are maintained in a single data table. As a result, when staff attempt to schedule an event that is in conflict with an already scheduled activity the system will immediately notify the staff member of the conflict and provide options for handling the situation.
We have specifically designed the EHR system to integrate fully with the Elite Inmate Trust Accounting package of the JMS, thus ensuring that opportunities for billing inmates for services are not lost. Pre-defined obligations can be identified against an inmate’s trust account and funds withdrawn automatically based on applicable payment rules.
Finally, the issue of the control of inmate medical data is of the utmost importance. If a corrections organization’s medical supplier maintains the inmates’ health records on a system that they provide, there may well be difficulties – and certainly delays – in recovering offender information should the medical contract expire or be terminated. Maintaining this inmate medical data as an integral part of the agency’s own OMS guarantees the agency will always have access to vital inmate medical data.