MAXIMS Child Health

IMS provides key child health functionality through our MAXIMS software to a number of IMS clients. In particular IMS has provided management of Child Health Scheduling across multiple London PCTs, including immunisation scheduling and reporting. Scheduling and recording of immunisations is operational in two Irish sites.
MAXIMS comprises an integrated suite of applications. A wide variety of clinical specialties are supported by specific modules within MAXIMS and any number of clinical specialty modules can be added to the Child Health core functionality.

Features

• Full child health records
• Session diaries including immunisation and examination
• Care Pathways including pre-school ICPs  
• Management of hearing, screening and bloodspots data.
• Supports specific requirements for special needs children
• In-tray - a secure internal messaging system that allows users to communicate about patients
• Registration and births, death notification as well as Merging/Unmerging Patient Records
• Event Status – suspending and unsuspending Patient Events.
• Information can be viewed by any authorised healthcare professional with appropriate access rights.
• Smart Forms - forms based on the original paper documentation and used to capture person data in a familiar format. The information automatically populates other forms avoiding duplicate data entry.
• Locally customisable screens
• Full reporting capabilities including user defined reports and queries provided through the Custom Data Extraction.
• Clinical Safety - The requirements of DSCN 14/2009 are fully met for all MAXIMS software.

Benefits

• Provides informed clinical decision making using accurate and up to date patient information.
• Better inter-working with other healthcare professionals as a result of real time shared information resulting in enhanced Patient care whilst freeing up staff and resource time.
• Allows exception reporting against defined Care Pathways – analysis of these monitors and improves quality of care
• Better resource and staff planning and more flexible working through consolidation of diaries
• Better information; better reporting  - improved access to quality data to support research, audit, outcome measurement and monitoring of caseload.
• Immediate information management available as a by-product of the system allowing full Clinical audit as well as risk and litigation reduction.
• Improve staff recruitment, retention and morale and overall culture of organisation.
• Much wider solution than that originally required for Child Health.
• Available Now -The functionality described above all exists now and is operational in a number of client sites.