Healthcare case management insights and resources
We recently updated UnaCasePro's API and I wanted to show how we integrated a full UnaCasePro referral PDF into a patient record within OpenMRS. The benefit of this full-circle integration is to close the loop on patient care and case managers so providers can get important information on their patients.
I am excited to announce we finished version 1.0 of the UnaCasePro API and it is in production. We’re excited about this new feature because UnaCasePro has the ability to integrate into EMR’s (EPIC, Cerner, AllScripts, OpenMRS, and more) and other health care related systems. Having an API helps close the loop on the needs of providers & case managers working together without having to spend countless hours manually updating health records. This results in less work for everyone involved, and more importantly, better patient care.
Audits of programs, including case management documentation, are a normal occurrence in the world of public health today.
Born in Los Angeles, California to Dutch Indonesian parents who moved our family back to The Netherlands when I was eight, I spent several years after high school kind of directionless. I started school in Los Angeles County, but, speaking no Dutch at the time, was made to repeat a grade when we moved to The Netherlands. That put me a year behind my peers. I was unfocused, unmotivated, and done with high school, I was positive I was never setting foot in a school again.
I remember the first time I was in the dark room developing my first roll of film that I just shot. The room was dark, lit brightly enough by the red, safe light. The air was thick with the smell of film chemicals wafting around.
Nowhere is the case for electronic case management to be better made than in health and human services. Even in a thriving economy, disadvantaged populations exist and are the most in need. As the economy shrinks in times of crises and unemployment increases, the need for health and human case management services increases. So does the need to document client information and circumstances to ensure clients’ needs are met.
In California, TCM, a Medicaid benefit program, is administered by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). The TCM program started in 1995 after the Medi-Cal Administrative Claiming Program split in two: TCM and Medi-Cal Administrative Activities (MAA).
As a social worker, you strive to have a positive effect on the community around you. You serve as motivation to better the lifestyles for each of your clients. Because of the various demands put on social workers, the client relationship can become secondary due to the vast amount of service coordination, communication among providers, documentation and other aspects of this ever-changing field.
In this final part, Part III, to our TCM audits blog, we will address the TCM program audits as conducted by the TCM program at the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). As written in our previous blogs on this topic, the Targeted Case Management (TCM) program cost reports are audited in California every year. For the program audit (or non-financial), DHCS strives to be on a 3-year. That means that your program may be audited once every 3 years.
We have been busy rolling out a lot of new features lately improving UnaCasePro and our latest calendar feature won’t disappoint. The calendar supports appointments, events (global), and reminders. I will break down each calendar event type and how it could be used.
