• Reducing the cost of prison healthcare and the incidence of referral elsewhere
• Measurably improving health outcomes and documentation
• Assessing an often complex group of physical and mental conditions
• Operating within a secure environment, exaggerated symptoms may be described
• Less experienced staff need decision support to function to higher levels

Solution

• Odyssey FirstAssess provides enhanced functionality for use in jail environment and other detention centres;
• Supports rapid triage of patients and face-to-face assessments, with detailed documentation;
• Specific question set developed to incorporate standard initial assessment upon arrival at correctional institution (‘reception’ assessment);
• Extensive and intuitive reporting capabilities empower administrators to quickly and easily produce any data required;
• Connectivity to other patient administration systems, as required, or available as a stand-alone product with advanced, configurable demographics for sites without patient administration systems.

Odyssey has been successfully piloted in a prison environment since April 2009. Working with our clients and senior managers in the service, we have designed further improvements, now available within Odyssey FirstAssess.

" Using the Odyssey system gives our nurses a clinical decision making tool for assessing our young people's conditions, as well as allowing us to monitor and report on the conditions and any emerging needs of the population.
Assessing this complex group of young people conditions can be a challenging task within a secure environment. Since using Odyssey we as a management team, are confident all the right questions are being asked by nurses and are recorded with accuracy and this gives good evidence of clinical decision making within the Electronic Patient Record (EPR)”
George Dodds, Healthcare Operational Manager, HM Young Offender Institute, Hindley, UK