INCREASING THE CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF A MENTAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM M. 1) PSP Information San Clara Gorodezkyl, J. Rusnak2 St., Suite 800 Group, 116 New Montgomery Francisco, California 94105 2) Santa County Mental Health, San Jose, California 645 S. Bascomb 95128 Avenue, ABSTRACT The evolution of mental health mental health information system has produced systems which are oriented towards administrative and fiscal applications. This paper discusses a case example of such a system and considers strategies to improve the clinical relevance of such a system. Current plans for system enhancements are considered including on-line treatment planning, discharge summaries and resource inventories. Historkal Perspective In various settings around the United States, mental health information systems have been in use since the early 1970 s. A variety of forces converged to cause mental health organizations to begin using computers. The dominant factors were administrative and financial. That is, calls for accountability increasingly demanded high speed processing well beyond the capacity of manual systems. Similarly the funding of the 1960 s which infused large sums for community mental health programs began to shift to systems which required the generation of detailed claims for service. The shift in funding patterns and the
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Increasing the clinical relevance of a mental health information system
Gorodezky, Michael J.; Rusnak, James
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, Volume 20 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 1990
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