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Benefits

Improve Accessibility of Medical Information
Over time, inmates' paper medical files can become unwieldy to transport and nearly impossible to search. Through OMS Medical Services' online data store, providers have instant access to an inmate's complete medical history, giving them a more accurate picture of that inmate's health. This information is presented in tables, graphs and reports designed with provider input to maximize the usability of available information. Its carefully structured format ensures consistency and allows for easier scanning of detailed medical information.

Tighten Security of Sensitive Inmate Data
Unlike users of paper-based systems, a Medical Services user has access to all inmate medical information on a need-to-know basis. The system's security controls the type of information and the facilities whose inmates are accessible to a given user. It also uses a screen-based security model that allows administrators to specify group and user-specific view, update and delete rights to each screen.

Increase Quality and Consistency of Care
The system's wizards, created by carefully studying the actual procedures followed during medical visits, ensure that all essential steps are performed and that information is collected and stored in a standard, readily accessible format. This ensures that policy and procedures are being followed, increasing the level of care while the automated record-keeping provides defensibility in case of lawsuits.

Efficiently Leverage Medical Resources
Through the integrated scheduling system, administrative personnel can manage appointment scheduling to minimize the personnel required while ensuring that required care is provided and follow-up visits are carried out. This automatically generated schedule can be viewed by institution, provider, activity and/or scheduled date. It gives staff the tools they need to review future schedules and balance workload with available resources and auto highlights activities that are past due.

Analyze Data to Contain Outbreaks
The structure and centralization of medical data allows providers to easily search for trends. For example, medical personnel can search for inmates recently complaining of nausea among the tens of thousands of encounters in the last month to help identify the geographic location of a flu outbreak. This significantly improves the staff's ability to detect and respond to infectious outbreaks.

Support Grant Applications and Other Reporting Needs
The structure of the database is designed to support grant applications, hypothesis testing, requirement forecasting and statistical reporting by allowing an authorized user to view summarized information on a wide variety of health problems over a given period of time.