title: Computerizing an integrated clinical and financial record system in a CMHC: a pilot project.
abstract: The authors describe the three-year experience of a mid-sized community mental health center in designing and installing an automated Staff/Management Information System (S/MIS). The purpose of the project, piloted at the heart od Texas Region Mental Health Mental Retardation Center (HOTRMHMR) in Waco, Texas, was to examine the feasibility of a comprehensive data system operating at a local level which would create an effective audit trail for services and reimbursement and serve as a viable mechanism for the transmission of center data to a state system via computer tapes. Included in the discussion are agency philosophy, costs, management attitudes, the design and implementation process, and special features which evolved from the fully integrated system.
mesh_terms: D003155:Community Mental Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003201:Computers; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013597:Systems Analysis; D013781:Texas