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Show ,17, ? ,L,7 doc- patients, doctors and hospital Adadministrators, said WUministration Hospital in Salt liams, assistant chief of staff, Litite diagnose and prescribe mental health and behavioral science service. treatment tor mental pa: , can monitor the treat- tithrts. mint a patient receives, it AI. computer-assiste- d cause it is separate from the pi.v.:hiatric Assessment Ipoin, conceived by Thomas hospital's treatment units. It VAttiams, M.D., and James saves doctors valuable time, and gives administrators Li. Johnson Ph.D.. gives and formation for better allocaa of number results aavly7,es Ls. tion of resources, he said. assessment boon a is to Williams and Johnson, 'who system ----I teach in the Depzirtinent of Psychiatry at the University :';. of Utah College of Medicine, '',' ha drawn heavily on stan- I ri',11i dard psychological tests in i i 1131111t111111 up the system. LE setting -t;s What we've done is com- ! hp,t. putcrize it," Williams e x !; plained, ,.-.The PAU i s funded by a WU from the Veterans contract :r.'Ai :' Administration to the U. of U. Medical School, Department ; of Psychiatry. The system does not re- lit it P111411Na , place conventional psychiat- ric treatment or do away with Npsychiatrists' diagnosis, It ilit 0 1 just speeds up the initial ,7,1,7:;, patient evaluations, Williams 4:,:10, said. And he said it has been ttA, shown as accurate for this e testing as inter- .;.,,.: ,41 VieWS by psychiatrists. When a patient comes to ,, the PAU, located at the VA i',,,,-.1Hospital, his name and other 4tZt '.'41 idertifying infortro'ion is e.- - - cathode , :',7:--- one-tim- 1 Administrators r .KV IOME 1111PROVElIENT BARGMNS can base g The next goal of PAU is to evaluate a patient's treatment when he is first dis- - ..0 ALL ITEMS a ASSFM8LED A & LINEN CLOSET S , ,nilvete-w- ff L141911, $ v.. 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DEEP WITH BACK 59.95 64.95 Azt t5.',I0 V I 9" OR 2211 DEEP301' HIGH DRAWER WOODGRAINFINISH g 1........,,,,, 59.95 36" WIDE -- 2 DOOR2 LINFINISHqD B I - ' - 4, WOODGPAIN FINISH i Tleit Lfr'FJ ' ' Sparc II their own thing" in treatment situations, Williams I EAE , ti bates $787,000 a year in federal money to the three voca-- i tional centers, two technical colleges, three junior eoi- leges, Southern Utah State and Weber State colleges and Utah State University. .s , 1 Meeting at Utah State UniThe new finance plan would versity on Thursday, the cut that to $484,000 in fiscal board approved a plan under 1977 and $330,000 in 1978, with which general federal money the balance going for energy for the state's technical and industrial employment schools, vocational centers training. and college vocational programs would be cut to an even State officials have ex- $30,000 per school for staff pressed concern that Utah support by 1478. train enough coal miners, for example, to man the south- Specific energy and industrial training programs will east Utah m i ningexbe the beneficiary of the cuts operations now being panded at a rapid rate for in funds.. power plant and other de- The board currently distri- - velopment. tl t an, (115,3fT I U The PATJ computer system is worth about $1 million, but the hospital saved $750,000 by getting the basic computer from another project. Williams guessed that the system could be duplicated in a version with a miniaturized tn li , do jobs, the board says. I - t patient," protecting him from therapists who tend "to d 1 s AL E PRIOR Du.,NR VI AI , t When fully implemented, the evaluations will make the computer "a sort of advocate for the Federal lk)GAN (AP) vocational 'money administered by the State Board of Education will be increasingly diverted into training for 7: SUBJECT TO BATHROOM UNFINISHED STORAGE SHELVES AND FOR GARAGEBASEMENT CABINETS GE IDEAL FOR FOODSTORk,A rscok ;;;p Energy job training nets fund priority , 11 WARDROBE 4, 0 ALL ITEMS ,..,......oku LIIKti. i tKVIVI ou K FACTORY ,",,,, bil I COMPLETELY 48" 41.1,4:g . , decisions on facts and figures, he said, "instead of having to fly by the seat of our pants and just guess." said. - - care delivery ceti;ters need tho corriputerhe . stressed, to keep up with increasing demand ler services and the tremendous, inflation in health care costs. As the PAU has showm:: v computers can he effective in allocating scarce resources in health care, as well as in industry, he said. - charged and several months after discharge. The discharge assessments assessment is now done on about 10 percent of the VA psychiatric patients, and that figure will increase to 30 or 50 percent in the next two months. Occasionally a patient will object to some of the test questions, but most are satisfied with the system, he said. Testing takes about five hours, and costs about $100, compared to more than T.5t,9 tered by a receptionist into the computer system on a v ministrator himself, he likes - 1 pro- the control over resource use that the computer information gives self-repo- rt ' it accessible records ' vides, Williams said. An ad- Then the patient is shown to use the CRT for testing. Ile comquespletes multiple-choic- e tion exams of his medical and social history, IQ, depression level and other psychological factors. After reviewing the medical history, a health technician conducts a physical exam, following a CRT question outline. The PAU staff then reviews all the test results and the clinical coordinator constructs a problem list, which becomes a part of the patient's medical record. The PAU has been in use since May, 1973, and since August, 1974 with the computer. It has been used with about .2,000 patients,Williams said, and has been very successful. ':T-- ia,,'',i'ir,-'- , One of the advaiiiages of the system is the legible, how 041 ';',, method. area. it. t interview assessment clinical coordinator conducts a mental status exam, asking the patient questions and entPring the answers into another CRT. As soon as the exam is finished, a written report is produced on the CRT in, thé receptionist's University Hospqal is installing two terminals, and Salt Lake Community Mental Health Center has one Williams said. There is talk of the Four Comers Mental Health Cent . er putting 'a terminal in a prototype system, with the thought of putting terminals In its other hospitals'. Terminals can be linked by telephone line to the central computer. This has been done succesdully with terminals S. -- a:' - radio-telephon- " Carolina-- The VA is examiniog the tests with the vehicle with to be used a in visiting Indiaa reservations and otter remote areas. Williams explained the system to Russian doctors on a visit to the Soviet Union last Octaer and they are interested in trying a terminal by satellite from Moscow,. "And there's no reason why we couldn't do it," Williams in Washington D.C., Denver and Anaheim, Calif., and by satellite . with one in North ' (CRT). .,, tC 4,, computer and 12 CRTs for about :100,0,K 'no PAU now uses 1 2 CR Ts. bat can handle for the same ray tube terminal A c I "40 t'ots 0. 8ti 8 Uraputers are helping tors at the Veterans - - I 0 PI D ;Iers et I veN - ilAY 18, 1975 DESERET NEWS, FRIDAY, ,40,0 i. 1713 iit !05 '!!,! s,(,F.,E Vg4 , cr4I A BARGAIN IS NOT 471;44 ALWAYS A AR: AIN! )1 i 11 I, 1',-- Vt0))13 e'llSIR doesn't jack up trade ;, 4.13 WI' t ,,, 'bit s e!e7 ltrAt r iii.-':- S re? it,t1:50,trt .......-.- - 'il tr10,,;;;;; 1 1 : ',,,,,g,se 1.;,4 a ,ssr,,,,,,, '14,:, More t Quality 1: .., I , , ' I ' 1 , -A. J, I11100 lipo p 1:3!3 k I4-3CL- t,),taitteirit: 0 :04 Vie W7.r' ,... l'I' ,I s',,l' s 'I' ort: t .,(li cr'y !Ts,: evr14:1;;;- - 11 ' vsV1 ,117;',!.' 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