On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Ken Dibble <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > What industry? Medical, Automotive sales? >> >> >> > >> > We're a Center for Independent Living. We provide some stuff that is >> > defined as "long-term care" services, and a lot of other stuff that is >> > loosely defined as "social services". Some stuff is billable to >> Medicaid; >> > some is not. But we aren't integrating billing for the most part. Worker >> > time sheets will be included. >> >> Quite familiar with this when my mom was alive and in one. >> > > It's not a residential facility. We provide services to enable people to > live as independently as possible in, preferably, their own homes. A brief > explanation is here (it's not our agency but it's a good description): > > http://fvkasa.org/resources/**files/cil.php<http://fvkasa.org/resources/files/cil.php> > > But we go well beyond that, as we provide homecare services, a range of > services for people with developmental disabilities of all ages, plus > supported employment for people with different kinds of disabilities, > specialized supports for people with brain injuries or who are elderly, and > a lot more. We can help you find a place to live if you don't have one > (say, if you want to leave an institutional setting or nursing facility), > bring in physical modifications and assistive technology, arrange for > attendant services (and, if you want, enable you to essentially "run" that > service yourself), assist you to hook up with friends, neighbors, > activities and jobs in the community, and do a bunch of other stuff, right > where you already live. > ---------- > Fantastic. > > Are you going to just cross reference all docs to a specific guest? Like >> scan them in and drop them into a guests folder? >> >> I see a lot of manual work in this but for a round one and little funding >> this is as good as it gets. >> > > I didn't set this up so I may not have all the details correct but > essentially: > > We have the system set up to key on individual clients. Within their > folders there will be folders for various departments, as well as a common > access folder. Access to departmental folders will be limited to department > members. Access to the wider folder will cast a wider net. Within each > folder will be a bunch of folders for document type (many of the same > document-type folders will be found within each of the separate department > folders), and individual documents will go into those folders. > > We haven't had the training yet so we aren't clear on the details of the > scanning/input process. The system will work with bar codes; the > salespeople keep pushing barcodes as the way to go. But as a matter of > practical reality, combing through dead files and trying to pull up > documents, separate them by barcode leaves by person, department, and > document type, and feed them through a network copier that can't control > the document management software directly is probably not going to work > efficiently. The person doing the scanning is going to have to make > judgement calls constantly and re-route stuff on the fly or in later > sessions. Also, there will inevitably be OCR errors and somebody will have > to edit the docs to fix them. > > > Internal usage is one thing and HIPPA was really set up for proper >> presentation to others I thought. >> > > Yes it is but a lot of people don't understand that. Nor does HIPPA > prevent the people who pay for medical services from seeing data that > proves they got what they paid for. Nor does it prevent data from being > subpoenaed by a court of law, and there are lots of other exceptions. > -------------- > I agree. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAJidMYJYtkQeriL1=3s00e9ofnu4zm_s8fhadrvm_0exqot...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
