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Computerizing an integrated clinical and financial record system in a CMHC: a pilot project.
Abstract
The three-year experience of a medium-sized community mental health center in designing and installing an automated Staff/Management Information System is described. The purpose of the project, piloted at the Heart of Texas Region Mental Health Mental Retardation Center in Waco, Texas, was to examine the feasibility of a comprehensive data system operating at a local level that would create an effective audit trail for services and reimbursement and serve as a viable mechanism for the transmission of center data to a state system via computer tapes. Included in the discussion are the agency's philosophy, costs, management attitudes, the design and implementation process, and special features that evolved from the fully integrated system. (Journal abstract, edited.)
Journal
(1981)
vol5
no3-4
pages97-111
Categories
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Evaluation and Information Management
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Information Management Systems
