Correctional healthcare software that keeps the clinical record and the custody obligation on one file

Correctional healthcare is the medical, dental and mental health care delivered to people in custody, where the clinical duty runs alongside statutory obligations that do not exist in a normal clinic. Under the Prison Rape Elimination Act standards at 28 CFR 115.21, an agency must offer victims access to forensic medical examinations without financial cost. Neurobird holds the clinical record and those duties together.

28 CFR 115.21PREA evidence protocol
$0cost to the victim of an exam
115.21(c)access to forensic examination
Correctional nurse reviewing a medication administration record on a mobile cart in a facility corridor, used to illustrate where a medication pass becomes part of the evidence record
Where the record is actually made: the medication pass, timestamped as it happens.

Neurobird Correctional Healthcare in short

  • Log every sick call request at the moment it is made, so response time is measured rather than estimated
  • Record medication administration against the order and the person who administered it
  • Attach PREA and other statutory obligations to the encounter they apply to, not to a policy binder
  • 28 CFR 115.21 Requires agencies to follow a uniform evidence protocol for investigations into allegations of sexual abuse, developmentally appropriate for youth where applicable. eCFR, 28 CFR 115.21
  • $0 Forensic medical examinations must be offered to victims without financial cost, whether performed on site or at an outside facility. eCFR, 28 CFR 115.21
  • Pricing runs 650 to 3400 US dollars per month across 3 tiers. Early access is free.

What correctional health services actually deal with

Sick call requests arrive on paper slips and the clock on a response starts whenever someone collects them.
Medication administration is signed on a paper MAR that nobody can query when a grievance arrives.
PREA obligations sit in a policy binder rather than in the record of the encounter they apply to.

Why it stays broken

Correctional healthcare sits between a custody system and a clinical system, and neither wants the other's data. Security owns movement, health owns the chart, and the obligations that bind them live in policy documents. So compliance is proven by pulling paper from two departments after the fact.

PREA standards require that forensic medical examinations be offered without financial cost to the victim, on site or outside.

If a rape crisis center is not available to provide victim advocate services, the agency shall make available to provide these services a qualified staff member from a community-based organization, or a qualified agency staff member.

law.cornell.edu, source

How does Neurobird Correctional Healthcare work?

  1. Request starts a clock

    A sick call request is timestamped on receipt, so the interval to triage and to encounter is a measured fact.

  2. Encounter carries its duties

    Where an encounter triggers a statutory obligation, that obligation is recorded against the encounter rather than remembered separately.

  3. Administration is evidence

    Each medication pass records the order, the dose, the time and the administering staff member, which is what a grievance actually tests.

Neurobird Correctional Healthcare Document Automation Platform

One file per person in custody: sick call, encounters, medication administration, and the statutory obligations that attach to specific events, all timestamped and attributable.

  • 1Log every sick call request at the moment it is made, so response time is measured rather than estimated
  • 2Record medication administration against the order and the person who administered it
  • 3Attach PREA and other statutory obligations to the encounter they apply to, not to a policy binder
  • 4Produce the record a grievance, an audit or a court order asks for without assembling it from two departments

What changes with Neurobird Correctional Healthcare?

The same work, read left to right: how it runs today, and how it runs once the record is in one place.

Correctional healthcare: current practice compared with Neurobird Correctional Healthcare
TodayWith Neurobird Correctional Healthcare
Sick call requests arrive on paper slips and the clock on a response starts whenever someone collects themLog every sick call request at the moment it is made, so response time is measured rather than estimated
Medication administration is signed on a paper MAR that nobody can query when a grievance arrivesRecord medication administration against the order and the person who administered it
PREA obligations sit in a policy binder rather than in the record of the encounter they apply toAttach PREA and other statutory obligations to the encounter they apply to, not to a policy binder

Who is this for?

The same file, three different settings.

County jail

You have high turnover

Intake screening and medication continuity dominate. You need the file to open fast and follow the person.

State facility

You hold people for years

Chronic care and periodic review drive the work. You need scheduled care to be tracked rather than remembered.

Contracted provider

You serve several facilities

You are measured against a contract per site. The evidence has to be per site and produced on demand.

The sick call queue, as your clinic would work it

Tick a request to triage it and watch the response clock and encounter record follow.

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Encounter notedrop a file or click to simulate intake
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Watch the fields extract from the document.

What the standards require of care in custody

Statutory duties that attach to a clinical encounter behind the wall.

28 CFR 115.21

Requires agencies to follow a uniform evidence protocol for investigations into allegations of sexual abuse, developmentally appropriate for youth where applicable.

eCFR, 28 CFR 115.21
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Forensic medical examinations must be offered to victims without financial cost, whether performed on site or at an outside facility.

eCFR, 28 CFR 115.21
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Examinations are to be performed by Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners or Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners where possible, and a victim advocate made available.

eCFR, 28 CFR 115.21
115.81

The PREA standard on medical and mental health screenings following an allegation, which turns an incident into scheduled clinical work.

eCFR, 28 CFR 115.81
115.83

Ongoing medical and mental health care for victims and abusers, the obligation that outlasts the incident report.

eCFR, 28 CFR 115.83

Correctional healthcare software questions, answered

Key terms

What is correctional healthcare?
It is medical, dental and mental health care delivered to people held in jails, prisons and detention facilities. It differs from ordinary practice because the clinical duty runs alongside statutory obligations about access, timeliness and documentation that a normal clinic does not carry.
What is PREA and why does it reach the clinic?
The Prison Rape Elimination Act standards at 28 CFR Part 115 place duties on agencies including access to forensic medical examination without cost to the victim, examination by qualified examiners where possible, and ongoing care. Those duties are discharged clinically, so they belong in the clinical record.

Does this replace the custody management system?

No. Custody owns movement, housing and classification. This owns the health record and the obligations attached to it, and reads the population from the custody system rather than duplicating it.

How does it handle sick call response times?

A request is timestamped on receipt rather than on collection, so the interval to triage and to encounter is measured. That interval is usually the first thing a grievance or an audit asks about.

Why we are building this

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Where the requirement comes from

Primary sources, straight from the regulators.

How much does Neurobird Correctional Healthcare cost?

Priced per facility because the contract, the audit and the population are facility level things. Encounters, records and users are unlimited on every tier.

Small facility
$650
per month
  • Up to 300 beds
  • Sick call and encounters
  • Medication administration
  • Response time reporting
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Facility
$1,600
per month
  • Unlimited beds
  • PREA obligation tracking
  • Chronic care scheduling
  • Audit and grievance export
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Provider
$3,400
per month
  • Multiple facilities
  • Per contract evidence
  • Custody system integration
  • Priority support
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Opening 5 early access places for correctional health services.

Get free early access

Early access means we model your sick call flow and formulary before you enter a single encounter, and you keep the account free while we do it.

Straight answer on where this is: The software is in development. Nothing is purchasable today. Early access means you shape it and pay nothing while we build.

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