OpenEMR for ACT Mental Health clinic

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grath90 wrote on Tuesday, May 03, 2016:

I’m looking at implementing OpenEMR to be used in a mental health clinic. The clinic is an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) clinic and operates differently than other mental health clinics. Most of what the clinic would need (in an EHR) is in place, or would just take a few extra forms and database tables. The biggest problem I see is how encounters and treatment plans are set up. The clinic has a master treatment plan for each patient. For a treatment plan to be complete all goals have to be met. Each goal has objectives that address the goal. Every intervention (encounter) addresses an objective. From what I can tell this is not how OpenEMR is currently structured. Would I be better off creating new tables for treatment plans and interventions (encounters) and relating them as needed? Or, should I use the current tables and modify those tables to meet the requirement we have to operate under?

Thanks

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sunsetsystems wrote on Tuesday, May 03, 2016:

I suggest using “issues” as treatment plans. They represent things like medical problems that span multiple encounters, and are stored in the “lists” table. I’m currently working with a client to make them more flexible and more effectively relate them to encounter forms.

Rod
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

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harleytuck wrote on Tuesday, May 03, 2016:

Hi Cole-
Another go at using OpenEMR as a Therapy Practice Management system was developed late last year and is discussed here.

Actually that page has two approaches; the CAMOS module in the upper part of the post, and Sherwin’s ‘multilayer’ care plan module in the lower.

Hope that’s useful.

Regards- Harley

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visolveemr wrote on Wednesday, May 04, 2016:

Hello Cole

Below is the approach we are following for one of our mental health client (Created a new screen and tables for this):

  • Treatment Plan will be created for each patients
  • It will be drilled down into further weekly/daily schedules that should match the total hours mentioned in the plan
  • Based on the schedules, number of appointments will be created for the patients, and this in turn will create the encounters

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
ViSolve OpenEMR Support Team,
ViSolve

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