Nurses take medical history notes in prisons:
now inmates use electronic interview modules, saves time and lives
Newport News, VA - October 11, 2006 Inmates are the
only people in the country with a constitutional guarantee to quality
healthcare. Yet mortality rates in correctional facilities from diabetes,
hypertension, and asthma are abnormally high. During medical history
interviews with physicians, nurses and supporting staff, an inmates
personal lack of knowledge of their own physical conditions can lead
to inadequate and incomplete medical history data. In various prisons,
the physicians and nurses roles as note takers has been eliminated
and replaced by using The PrimeCare Patient Management System bilingual
electronic interview modules. The inmate answers the questions in
the each module then the System generates a report containing the
inmate's current problems, medications and allergies, all positive
and significant negative subjective responses, vital signs, and a
list of the diagnostic considerations and differential diagnoses.
The report is available online only to the institutions physicians
and nurses allowing them to rapidly respond to an inmates medical
emergencies.
Each physician can process two or more additional inmates an hour
using the PrimeCare Patient Management System. The completed modules
and subsequent reports give more hands-on time for diagnostic assessment
and treatment saving time and money, and is expected to save lives.
The interview modules are fully bi-lingual and can be read and answered
English or Spanish. A single keystroke changes the questions and responses
from/to English or Spanish.
About PrimeCare Systems, Inc., and the Version Nine System
PrimeCare Systems, Inc. develops, markets and distributes medical
software and diagnostic products for the healthcare industry. The
Company created, holds the rights to, maintains, and markets the PrimeCare
Patient Management System including the Electronic Medical System,
and Code Complier, an E&M documentation analysis module. http://www.versionnine.com.