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HRST: Health Risk Screening Tool
DTECH and McGowan: "The techs in touch"
HRST: Health Risk Screening Tool
McGowan Consultants
(McGowan), is a leader in providing health screening tools to public and private agencies serving the needs of persons with Developmental Disabilities (DD) (or complex health care challenges). McGowan, in partnership with The dTech Group (DTECH), designed the Health Risk Screening/Assessment Tool (HRST) software in 1998 to increase the functionality of the "paper" version of this tool, which was designed to identify and track persons with potential life threatening health risks, who were moving to less restrictive community settings. The HRST is the first in a series of applications designed to increase the skills and productivity of direct care workers serving persons with disabilities due to age, accident or illness.
The HRST is designed for field managers in who cannot adequately assess client health due to shortages of qualified workers and cost constraints. For these managers, The HRST is an information system that provides dynamic, electronic health monitoring of clients. Unlike existing, in-house, static paper systems, the HRST provides an easily implemented, affordable, standardized way for managers to track, report, and act on health trends through time and across service delivery settings.
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DTECH and McGowan: "The techs in touch"
People begin life totally dependent on the care of others. No experience is more uniquely human or personal than the one-on-one caregiving relationship. People return to the need for care from others through age, accident, or illness. One out of every three Americans will, at some point, need long term care. Dependency is no less personal in adulthood than in childhood. Quality of life is defined by the quality of the caregiving relationship.
For over 25 years, we have used information to improve the health and safety of people with all types of health challenges and to enhance the caregiving relationship. Recent advances in technology make it possible to apply our unique experience and approach to care in dynamic and unprecedented ways.
DTECH and McGowan design applications for public and private provider agencies serving individuals that need personal, direct, or long-term care. DTECH and McGowan applications focus on maintaining and improving the health and safety of provider agency clients through data-driven prevention strategies and personnel productivity tools.
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Product Features and Benefits
The HRST analyzes health indicators in 22 areas, captures relevant case notes, produces risk scores that identify the need for nursing intervention, and generates a set of training and service recommendations based on the needs of the individual. The risk score for a specific individual can be compared through time to identify health trends that left uncorrected could result in a loss of functional skills, acute health problems, costly hospitalizations, intensive nursing care, or death. Risk scores viewed across individuals identify agency patterns of care and needs for professional services and staff training.
Managers have a number of compelling reasons to subscribe to the HRST:
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Product Positioning
For managers in the health care field who cannot adequately assess client health due to critical shortages in qualified direct care workers, the HRST can be an Internet-based information system that provides dynamic, electronic health monitoring of their clients.
Unlike existing, in-house, static "paper" systems, the HRST provides an easily implemented, affordable, accurate, standardized way for managers to track and act on health trends through time and across service delivery setting.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
The dTech Group (DTECH) as the systems developer and systems integrator for client/server business systems. Established in 1976, they are uniquely positioned to address a wide-ranging set of issues across multiple computing environments. They have developed the HRST system in its initial stand-alone version, as well as, the latest client-server version. DTECH has developed a number of other applications in wide-ranging areas. In the medical field, they have developed a patient tracking and diagnosis system for a large Tulsa foundation that specializes in the field of Endocrinology, and particular Diabetes; and Reporting and Accounting Systems for both human and animal pathology labs. Other large projects include a Decision Support System for an international label manufacturer, a Revenue Management System for a large Brewer, an accounting and sales tracking system for a large jobber/distributor, an Oil and Gas Trading System that encompasses trading, marketing, distribution, and an accounting system for Oil and Gas marketing companies.
DTECH provides technical support, including network design, hardware sales and service, software installation services, and software customization and integration. HRST can be changed to suit unique needs and integrated with other applications to provide a seamless solution to the total health care problem.
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PRICING and LICENSING
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Enhanced reporting capabilities include statistical analyses and comparisons between users’ own records and those from other private and public facilities. These reports and records will be considered proprietary and anonymity will be maintained between agencies. Reports will be provided on a monthly and a quarterly basis, depending on function.2
DTECH will provide automatic dial-up or Internet connection software to facilitate the downloading of any data. This function will inherently provide offsite, backup storage for client data.
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A user's license is defined as a single version of HRST running on a single computer.Limited Rights as to Use of the Software:
McGowan grants a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to:
(a) install and use the Software on a single personal computer in machine-readable form for the sole purpose of accessing the services provided;
(b) install the Software on another personal computer if necessitated by a failure of the first personal computer, so long as the Software is not used on more than a single personal computer; and
(c) maintain one backup copy of the Software for archival and recovery
purposes.
Additional users’ licenses can be added at the following costs:
1 to 10 users = $585.00 each
11 to 25 users = $395.00 each
26 to 50 users = $295.00 each
51 to 125 users = $195.00 each
Unlimited user license = $25,000.00
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Storage and reporting of DTECH stored clients' records will be $36.00 per year per record, which is paid for, and based on, quarterly reports. A record for billing purposes is defined as a unique social security number. Many HRST records can exist for a given patient/client/social security number, but each unique patient/client/social security number will count as one. So it is very important to use only one social security number per patient/client, even though some may have multiple social security numbers. This ensures proper reporting and payments.5
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CONTACT INFORMATION
McGowan Consultants
PO Box 3571
Peachtree City, GA 30269
Voice: 770.487.9830
facs: 770.487.5068
Order: 800-994-9469
Website: www.karengreenmcgowan.com
karenmcgowan@pipeline.com
DTECH Computerists, Inc.
1638 South Main St.
Suite 101
Tulsa, OK 74119
Voice: 918.583.7447
facs: 918.583.0560
Toll free: 800.800.4278
Website: www.dtechgroup.com
Email:
harv@dtechgroup.com
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