Psychiatric Evaluation System

It is such a simple idea! Just administer a computerized clinical assessment to your patient during a routine medical visit and rest assured that you will detect much of the depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems that once lurked unseen in primary care practices. It has been estimated that 6% to 10% of medical patients have Major Depressive Disorder, and 10%-30% have some other psychiatric disorder that go undetected.

Historically, healthcare professionals have been sold on the concept that, too often, psych evaluations are lengthy and tedious. Psychiatric Evaluation Survey, a brief screening tool developed by Dr. B. Kishore Gupta, has been touted as a simple but effective way to improve detection of mental disorders.

Psychiatric Evaluation software will aid primary care physicians in early recognition of mental disorders in their practices. It can provide automated reports that provide clinical priorities, DSM-IV differential diagnosis, baseline and guidelines for services, treatment planning and analysis.

From the moment a call is received from a new patient, Psych Evaluation becomes a valuable office player. Initially when a call comes into the office, patient & insurance information can be noted in minutes. At the time of the appointment, the information will be readily available for the initial screening. After the initial questionnaire, the survey then acts like a mini diagnostic partner with eight modules; Mood, Anxiety, Alcohol, Eating, Somatoform, Psychosis, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), and Memory. From the call or the visit you can go to the initial screening to get a sense of the type of disturbance. The software also allows you to screen patients for ADHD (children) and memory dysfunction (elderly patients).

Psych Evaluation facilitates the clinician's review & shortens the initial screening time to less than 20 minutes either as a computerized clinical tool or from printed forms from the program.

Automation of management and communication of clinical data & information have a notable impact on improving patient care & productivity. The birth of Psych Evaluation Survey has arrived with advances in clinical information systems technology. It will enhance logging patient encounters, registering test results, referring physicians, as well as easy accessibility of patient history for follow up visits. The data compiled from this survey can be a superior tool in invoking in-depth discussions between clinician & patient by giving the provider a "starting point". Implementation of such new & progressive clinical information systems will prove beneficial in today's health care environment.

Disclaimer
This is only a diagnostic tool to assist the clinician in diagnosis of your condition. Diagnosis may be made in conjunction with other tests. There is no liability attached to the author or developer for the misdiagnosis or treatment of the patient.