Introduction

Information in electronic form, which will support integrated and co-ordinated care, across health and social care boundaries, and available wherever care is delivered. This is epitomised by the concept of IMHER – Integrated Mental Health Electronic Record. It details information about the service user to enable seamless co-ordinated care to be provided. Using appropriate confidentiality and securing protocols, information regarding each service user’s assessments, care plans and progress will be available, to read or add to, wherever staff are delivering care.

What is Sepia?

SEPIA is a computerised Mental Health Information System that has been expressly designed to assist professionals from both Health and Social Services disciplines to co-ordinate and deliver the Care Programme Approach to vulnerable clients.

What does Sepia do?

The core of SEPIA is made up of the files focused on the needs and care of each individual client. Records for each Client Episode, Care Co-ordinators attending to each episode and the activity linking these two are held and maintained by the system. The system also maintains the files for Consultants, Carers, General Practitioners, Providers, Other people, and Centres or Organisations involved with the clients and also their activities with the clients. The relevant links are made between the files.

General Features

• Comprehensive record-keeping with coded information, extensive free text and facilities to store scanned documents or pictures within the client file.
• Easy to use with intuitive screens, menus and drop-down lists that can be controlled by the user.
• Immediate access to either the latest episode of care for a client/all clients or the entire case file of episodes for that client/all clients.
• Powerful filters for sifting the database and searching on multiple fields.
  Fast and simple viewing of case histories –consultants, GPs, Carers, Care Workers, Providers, Visits to Venue, etc.
• Full and flexible reporting capabilities covering Audit Commission, National Mandatory Reports, Management Reports, Customised Reports, etc.
• Fully networkable with strict control over access rights.
• Automatic mailing facility along with printing facility for letters and documents, with records kept of all mailings.
• NHS numbers Batch Tracing Service integrated into the system.
• Versions of SEPIA, using the facilities of PDAs and the web, are available as optional extras.