Ascribe's Child Healthcare systems record new birth notification, pre-school surveillance, immunisation and vaccination and school health examinations. The design is underpinned by the Child Health Informatics Consortium’s (CHIC) specification and has been designed to include additional functions such as ‘relational registration’. Selected elements in the child’s record can automatically trigger a ‘significant condition’ to draw attention to potential areas for concern and / or risk, e.g. low birth weight, head circumference etc.

Referrals and contact with services, external to health screening and GP surgeries, are supported through the integral nature of the system and can be automatically triggered as a result of an attended screening or examination.

Consequently, children can be registered at birth, monitored through pre-school surveillance, V&I and school health examination, whilst at the same time be seen by other care professionals in other settings with access to record resultant care against the same record.

Ascribe has developed a link between Child Health and Neonatal screening services / systems. A complete history of care can thus be maintained within the system and dependent on Trust security protocols, can be accessed by all professionals involved in the child’s care ranging from HV, GP, Audiometrist, Optometrist, DN, CPN, Paediatrician, Consultant Psychiatrist etc.

Ascribe's Child Healthcare IT solution is unique when set against many other information systems; it is part of a more comprehensive set of systems designed to support the needs of the modern local health community comprising Primary Care Trusts, Care Trusts, Acute Mental Health Trusts including Learning Disabilities, Child Health and Elderly Services.

Registration
 

• Automatic Family linking
• Link to NHS Numbers for Babies programme.
• User-definable fields
• Automatic scheduling of Vacc & Imm’s, Exams, Pre-School and School programs

Birth Notification / Discharge Details
 

• Clinical details
• Low Birth Weight, Significant Conditions, and other user-definable Warnings
• All types of Test results
• Special Needs

• Including Social Factors
• Significant Conditions
• User-definable warnings
• Other details such as Consent / Recording of Results / Letters 

Pre-School
 

• On-line recording of results (either batch or individual)
• Production of clinic lists, letters, etc.
• Scheduled and Unscheduled events
• Variable appointment methods
• Recalls
• Automatic referrals
• User-definable fields

• Consent details for each program
• On-line recording of results (either batch or individual)
• Production of clinic lists, letters, etc.
• Scheduled and Unscheduled events
• Variable appointment methods
• User-definable fields

School
 

• On-line recording of results
• Production of clinic lists, letters, etc.
• Scheduled and Unscheduled events
• Variable appointment methods and Recalls.
• Automatic referrals
• User-definable fields
• School history

Significant Conditions
 

• User-definable
• Automatic links with Birth Notification.
• Special Needs
• Statementing
• Professional Advice

Research Facilities
 

• User-definable reports
• Movements in / out
• Labels, Letters, Invitations, etc.
• Statistical Reports
• Exceptions
• Registrars Listing

Additional notes:

1. Ascribe's systems extend their use to the home and in rural areas through the use of GPRS connected Tablet PCs that run our software and provide peripatetic staff with up-to-date information and the means to enter data.
2. Users can create their own screen forms, data items and look-up code tables so that the system can be tailored to capture information specific to the care professional and / or team involved. All provide unlimited notes for qualitative clinical observations. The system automatically manages the additions to the database so this information is available for reporting.