Health care providers in correctional facilities face many unique challenges related to the documentation of patient care. Excessive inmate turn-over rates, limited resources, poor health, and problematic mental states of high-risk patients can overwhelm the correctional health care provider.
CorrecTek is a wholly owned company created by Ulrich Medical Concepts to serve the health care needs of jails and prisons. CorrecTek software includes the following capabilities:
- Document management - Scanned paper, photographs, inmate signatures
- Medication Administration Record (MAR) - Drug & staff tracking
- Treatment Administration Record (TAR) - Order-based
- Treatment protocols - Standing orders & ad hoc orders
- Physician and staff dictation - Templates & voice dictation
- Sophisticated electronic medical records / scheduling / billing
- Customizable - Records, screens, reports, documents, workflow
- Reporting - Cost analysis, management by exception, proximity, audit trails
- Outside data sharing - Authorized entities (e.g. Health Departments, other prisons)
- Telemedicine ready
- Jail/offender management - Optional or interface to in-house systems.
The benefits of CorrecTek are many:
- Reduced Liability
- Computerized reminders
- Attention given to outstanding issues
- Exception flags to management to address staff inattention
- Complete & thorough documentation
- Clear lines of authority and responsibility
- Cost and time savings
- No time spent filing, retrieving, and copying paper records
- Multiple, rapid methods of data entry and data retrieval
- Documentation is done at the time of care
- Measurable outcomes for potential insurance of inmates
- Standards across one facility or multiple facilities
- Ensures same levels of compliance and standards of care
- Metrics on compliance, cost analysis, resource allocation, etc.
- Customization by authorized super-users (no programmer involvement is required)
- Data portability and data sharing
- Inmate records can "follow" the inmate to other CorrecTek / TCC systems
- Authorized "outside" users can view selected inmate records
- Sharing of standards such as forms, screens, reports, protocols, etc.
- Better patient care
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