Social Care

Linking communities together

Modern governments have recently begun to appreciate the fact that the segregation of departments and information is both inefficient and substantially interferes with the ability of government to provide acceptable levels of service to its citizens. This has resulted in the emerging focus on Electronic Social Care Records (ESCR).

It has become evident that in order for authorities, health care workers and social care workers to fully understand a case, they need fast, comprehensive access not only to their own records, but also records from other organisations such as the police, hospitals, schools and elsewhere. ESCR will allow social care agencies to react to issues more rapidly, with better knowledge of the circumstances, greater sensitivity to privacy issues, and improved compliance with government standards and regulations. TRIM Context 6 provides the functionality required to build a truly successful ESCR implementation.

Benefits from implementations of ESCR with TRIM Context 6 have included:

• improved productivity, through faster access to information
• a more holistic view of the information on an individual
• easy access to information on a person’s file from any location
• reduced physical storage space required
• substantial user acceptance, as users were able to see immediate gains from the system
• improved quality of information
• a significant time-saving in indexing

These benefits demonstrate that ESCR can provide compelling advantages over current paper-based systems and information silos.