Jackson County is using new automated breath alcohol testing technology to improve workflow, reduce administration costs and improve testing services for alcohol offenders.
This document summarizes the pharmacokinetics, toxicity, and clinical effects of various alcohols including ethanol, isopropanol, and methanol. Ethanol is rapidly absorbed through the stomach and intestine and metabolized in the liver. Common signs of intoxication include sedation, hypoglycemia, and respiratory depression. Methanol is metabolized to toxic compounds that can cause metabolic acidosis, visual impairment, and death. Treatment involves blocking metabolism using ethanol or fomepizole to prevent formation of toxic metabolites.
This document discusses toxic alcohols including ethanol, methanol, ethylene glycol, and isopropanol. It provides details on the sources, metabolism, clinical effects, diagnosis, and treatment of toxic alcohol poisoning for each substance. Key points include the different metabolic pathways, symptoms based on serum concentration levels, use of antidotes like ethanol or fomepizole to prevent metabolism, and indications for hemodialysis in severe poisonings.
Work Examiner is an employee monitoring solution that allows managers to monitor employee activity, generate reports on internet usage, application usage, attendance, and more. It offers real-time monitoring and scheduled reporting across multiple deployment options. Work Examiner is intended to help managers increase employee efficiency, reduce non-work time, and detect non-productive employees.
This document discusses ethanol toxicity and its effects both acutely and chronically. It covers the pharmacokinetics of ethanol including absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination. Acute toxicity can range from mild euphoria to death depending on blood alcohol concentration. Chronic toxicity includes tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, liver damage, increased cancer risk and fetal alcohol syndrome. Management of acute toxicity focuses on supporting vital signs and increasing ethanol clearance. Chronic alcoholism treatment includes psychosocial support and nutritional supplementation.
1. The initial management of all poisoned patients should be similar and focus on stabilization, including maintaining the ABCDEs. Airway patency, breathing, circulation, disability, and exposure should be assessed and treated.
2. Definitive care involves identifying the toxic agent through history, physical exam including vital signs and toxic syndromes, and initial investigations like toxicology screening and basic labs.
3. Management then focuses on decreasing further absorption, administering antidotes if available, enhancing elimination, and treating complications through supportive care.
Thank you for the summary. Acute appendicitis is a common surgical emergency that requires timely diagnosis and management to prevent complications. A high index of suspicion is needed given its varied presentations.
The document provides information about appendicitis, including its definition, pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment. It states that appendicitis is caused by obstruction of the appendix lumen, most commonly by a faecalith. It describes the progression from obstruction to infection and perforation. It outlines the typical symptoms of abdominal pain that migrates to the right lower quadrant, anorexia, vomiting, and low-grade fever. It provides details on various clinical examination signs used in diagnosis like rebound tenderness and McBurney's point tenderness.
Acute appendicitis is caused by obstruction of the appendix lumen, which increases intraluminal pressure and leads to vascular compromise and tissue necrosis. Initial symptoms are vague abdominal pain that localizes to the right lower quadrant as inflammation spreads. A physical exam may reveal tenderness at McBurney's point. Imaging studies like CT scans can help diagnose appendicitis, especially in atypical cases. Treatment is an appendectomy along with preoperative antibiotics to prevent infection.
This document summarizes the pharmacokinetics, toxicity, and clinical effects of various alcohols including ethanol, isopropanol, and methanol. Ethanol is rapidly absorbed through the stomach and intestine and metabolized in the liver. Common signs of intoxication include sedation, hypoglycemia, and respiratory depression. Methanol is metabolized to toxic compounds that can cause metabolic acidosis, visual impairment, and death. Treatment involves blocking metabolism using ethanol or fomepizole to prevent formation of toxic metabolites.
This document discusses toxic alcohols including ethanol, methanol, ethylene glycol, and isopropanol. It provides details on the sources, metabolism, clinical effects, diagnosis, and treatment of toxic alcohol poisoning for each substance. Key points include the different metabolic pathways, symptoms based on serum concentration levels, use of antidotes like ethanol or fomepizole to prevent metabolism, and indications for hemodialysis in severe poisonings.
Work Examiner is an employee monitoring solution that allows managers to monitor employee activity, generate reports on internet usage, application usage, attendance, and more. It offers real-time monitoring and scheduled reporting across multiple deployment options. Work Examiner is intended to help managers increase employee efficiency, reduce non-work time, and detect non-productive employees.
This document discusses ethanol toxicity and its effects both acutely and chronically. It covers the pharmacokinetics of ethanol including absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination. Acute toxicity can range from mild euphoria to death depending on blood alcohol concentration. Chronic toxicity includes tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, liver damage, increased cancer risk and fetal alcohol syndrome. Management of acute toxicity focuses on supporting vital signs and increasing ethanol clearance. Chronic alcoholism treatment includes psychosocial support and nutritional supplementation.
1. The initial management of all poisoned patients should be similar and focus on stabilization, including maintaining the ABCDEs. Airway patency, breathing, circulation, disability, and exposure should be assessed and treated.
2. Definitive care involves identifying the toxic agent through history, physical exam including vital signs and toxic syndromes, and initial investigations like toxicology screening and basic labs.
3. Management then focuses on decreasing further absorption, administering antidotes if available, enhancing elimination, and treating complications through supportive care.
Thank you for the summary. Acute appendicitis is a common surgical emergency that requires timely diagnosis and management to prevent complications. A high index of suspicion is needed given its varied presentations.
The document provides information about appendicitis, including its definition, pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment. It states that appendicitis is caused by obstruction of the appendix lumen, most commonly by a faecalith. It describes the progression from obstruction to infection and perforation. It outlines the typical symptoms of abdominal pain that migrates to the right lower quadrant, anorexia, vomiting, and low-grade fever. It provides details on various clinical examination signs used in diagnosis like rebound tenderness and McBurney's point tenderness.
Acute appendicitis is caused by obstruction of the appendix lumen, which increases intraluminal pressure and leads to vascular compromise and tissue necrosis. Initial symptoms are vague abdominal pain that localizes to the right lower quadrant as inflammation spreads. A physical exam may reveal tenderness at McBurney's point. Imaging studies like CT scans can help diagnose appendicitis, especially in atypical cases. Treatment is an appendectomy along with preoperative antibiotics to prevent infection.
Driven By Safety Inc. created CheckBAC, an affordable and automated remote alcohol monitoring system using a smartphone and Bluetooth breathalyzer. Their mission is to create safer communities through accurate alcohol monitoring at an affordable price. CheckBAC allows courts and rehabilitation programs to monitor thousands of users simultaneously through a web portal, lowering costs compared to other methods. It provides real-time breathalyzer results, video verification, and GPS location to probation officers. CheckBAC is currently used in several states and saves significant costs compared to incarceration.
SafeGuard provides comprehensive background screening and substance abuse testing services that help businesses mitigate risks, realize greater morale and productivity, and see decreases in accidents, absenteeism, downtime, turnover, and theft.
Claims leakage presentation with narrationMark Rayner
This is our presentation on Claims Leakage audits that we perform for insurers. Please visit our website if you'd like more information or to see the presentation with narration. Please feel free to contact me if you'd like to discuss or comment. Mark Rayner.
The Baltimore Police Department Crime Lab has made several improvements over the past year under its new Director Steven O'Dell. This includes purchasing new fingerprint and DNA analysis technology, reorganizing units into teams to improve efficiency, and reducing the average response time of its mobile crime scene unit from 82 to 40 minutes. The lab has also reduced its backlog, maintained accreditation, and launched a training program called BFITI to provide local forensic training. Overall the changes have modernized the lab's operations and increased its ability to support criminal investigations.
Logica | Intelligent Self learning - a helping hand in financial crimeCGI
The financial crime experts here at Logica, have developed sophisticated algorithms, that learn who is an offender and who is not. It is this self learning capability that means false positives can be reduced by up to 50%
Up to 40% of all industrial fatalities are linked to alcohol consumption and the percentage of industrial accidents where alcohol is a factor is even higher1. The SENTINEL™ Alcohol Screening System enables high volume "zero tolerance" screening of employees, visitors or contractors in safety sensitive industries such as Mining, Construction and Oil and Gas.
A large French pharmaceutical group approached Itris Automation Square to improve compliance with PLC programming standards without manual code review. PLC Checker was identified as an automated solution to review code. It was tested on a project involving 10 PLCs and 7500 I/O points from 6 integrators. After successful use, the client decided to use PLC Checker systematically across the group to improve quality assurance.
1) The document analyzes moving police suspect interview processes from analog to digital recording to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
2) It details the current interview recording, transcription, and storage processes and costs. Moving to digital recording could save over £320,000 annually based on estimated activity time reductions and reduced storage and transport needs.
3) The report recommends a full server-based digital solution to realize additional benefits beyond cost savings such as improved performance monitoring and reduced risk of lost or damaged recordings.
ValGenesis Case Study With Scinopharm -Paperless Validation Software Solution ValGenesis
ValGenesis delivered a validated and qualified system in six weeks – the rapid implementation we needed. The system has been stable from the start, with little need for customer support calls, allowing us to focus on training and bringing on new users every week.”
— Steve Johnson, Director, Operations
Injectable Facility
ScinoPharm Taiwan, Ltd.
eScreen's best-in-class, next-generation technology for screening and maintaining drug-free workforces. eScreen reduces program costs, incorporates a paperless process and automates compliance management.
Peak Review Metrics: Case Studies and ROImdalewitz
The consulting firm was able to reduce costs on their document review project in two key ways:
1) By using Peak Discovery's automatic to-the-minute billing through Peak Review Metrics, which tracked unproductive time and deducted it from billing, saving 10% on labor costs.
2) By analyzing historical reviewer performance data to select the most productive and accurate reviewers, and tracking metrics in Peak Review Metrics, the firm was able to boost productivity, accuracy, and document review rates by 25%, finishing the project in 12 weeks instead of 16 and reducing total costs by 25%.
When combined, these two strategies helped the consulting firm reduce the total project cost by 35%.
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Successive Software created an audit instrument that helps the compliance managers to manage each facility and the practices within the prescribed framework. Successive Software helped the institution to develop the technology behind the audit instrument and implemented the same on the client servers.
The document discusses Clean Sweep Group Inc. (CSGI), a company that provides ultraviolet disinfection technology and infection prevention solutions. CSGI offers a complete suite of implementation solutions including advanced UV devices, analytic software to track treatments, and on-site field technicians. Research shows reducing environmental contamination can lower infection risks. Customers who have used CSGI's solutions have seen significant reductions in hospital-acquired infections and related cost savings.
Improved Go to Market Time & Reduced Operational CostITC Infotech
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FNB - Funeral Automated Claims Processing - Insurer Innovation Award 2022The Digital Insurer
- FNB Life provides funeral insurance and saw a large increase in claims due to COVID-19, placing pressure on their operational staff.
- They developed an automated end-to-end funeral claims processing system using technologies like optical character recognition and machine learning to assess claims and provide digital feedback within minutes.
- The system has processed over 800 claims worth over R6.8 million, with 60% automatically approved and 80% processed within an hour, reducing handling time by 35 minutes and saving over R6.2 million annually in costs.
The document discusses a case study of a global telecoms company reducing the costs of its software testing services. It outlines how the company worked with TCL to transition from flexible resourcing to a managed testing service model. This resulted in a 25% reduction in costs the first year and over 35% the second year, while maintaining testing quality. It also allowed 50% of the testing to be done offshore, further reducing costs. The new model provided the telecoms company with increased stability, accountability, and focus on automation from its external testing suppliers.
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Driven By Safety Inc. created CheckBAC, an affordable and automated remote alcohol monitoring system using a smartphone and Bluetooth breathalyzer. Their mission is to create safer communities through accurate alcohol monitoring at an affordable price. CheckBAC allows courts and rehabilitation programs to monitor thousands of users simultaneously through a web portal, lowering costs compared to other methods. It provides real-time breathalyzer results, video verification, and GPS location to probation officers. CheckBAC is currently used in several states and saves significant costs compared to incarceration.
SafeGuard provides comprehensive background screening and substance abuse testing services that help businesses mitigate risks, realize greater morale and productivity, and see decreases in accidents, absenteeism, downtime, turnover, and theft.
Claims leakage presentation with narrationMark Rayner
This is our presentation on Claims Leakage audits that we perform for insurers. Please visit our website if you'd like more information or to see the presentation with narration. Please feel free to contact me if you'd like to discuss or comment. Mark Rayner.
The Baltimore Police Department Crime Lab has made several improvements over the past year under its new Director Steven O'Dell. This includes purchasing new fingerprint and DNA analysis technology, reorganizing units into teams to improve efficiency, and reducing the average response time of its mobile crime scene unit from 82 to 40 minutes. The lab has also reduced its backlog, maintained accreditation, and launched a training program called BFITI to provide local forensic training. Overall the changes have modernized the lab's operations and increased its ability to support criminal investigations.
Logica | Intelligent Self learning - a helping hand in financial crimeCGI
The financial crime experts here at Logica, have developed sophisticated algorithms, that learn who is an offender and who is not. It is this self learning capability that means false positives can be reduced by up to 50%
Up to 40% of all industrial fatalities are linked to alcohol consumption and the percentage of industrial accidents where alcohol is a factor is even higher1. The SENTINEL™ Alcohol Screening System enables high volume "zero tolerance" screening of employees, visitors or contractors in safety sensitive industries such as Mining, Construction and Oil and Gas.
A large French pharmaceutical group approached Itris Automation Square to improve compliance with PLC programming standards without manual code review. PLC Checker was identified as an automated solution to review code. It was tested on a project involving 10 PLCs and 7500 I/O points from 6 integrators. After successful use, the client decided to use PLC Checker systematically across the group to improve quality assurance.
1) The document analyzes moving police suspect interview processes from analog to digital recording to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
2) It details the current interview recording, transcription, and storage processes and costs. Moving to digital recording could save over £320,000 annually based on estimated activity time reductions and reduced storage and transport needs.
3) The report recommends a full server-based digital solution to realize additional benefits beyond cost savings such as improved performance monitoring and reduced risk of lost or damaged recordings.
ValGenesis Case Study With Scinopharm -Paperless Validation Software Solution ValGenesis
ValGenesis delivered a validated and qualified system in six weeks – the rapid implementation we needed. The system has been stable from the start, with little need for customer support calls, allowing us to focus on training and bringing on new users every week.”
— Steve Johnson, Director, Operations
Injectable Facility
ScinoPharm Taiwan, Ltd.
eScreen's best-in-class, next-generation technology for screening and maintaining drug-free workforces. eScreen reduces program costs, incorporates a paperless process and automates compliance management.
Peak Review Metrics: Case Studies and ROImdalewitz
The consulting firm was able to reduce costs on their document review project in two key ways:
1) By using Peak Discovery's automatic to-the-minute billing through Peak Review Metrics, which tracked unproductive time and deducted it from billing, saving 10% on labor costs.
2) By analyzing historical reviewer performance data to select the most productive and accurate reviewers, and tracking metrics in Peak Review Metrics, the firm was able to boost productivity, accuracy, and document review rates by 25%, finishing the project in 12 weeks instead of 16 and reducing total costs by 25%.
When combined, these two strategies helped the consulting firm reduce the total project cost by 35%.
MicroBioDx - Turnkey In Office PCR Labs with UTI, RPP and MoreMaxiMedRx
Many practices are still using offsite laboratories to process their patients Respiratory and Urinary Tract related cultures. The Point of Care PCR Joint Venture Program is revolutionizing the way both small and large practices increase monthly revenue. Often these facilities are not only billing the insurance carrier, they also send patients to collections. The Integration of this system will grant you billing privileges and the control of your patient’s financial outcome.
Successive Software created an audit instrument that helps the compliance managers to manage each facility and the practices within the prescribed framework. Successive Software helped the institution to develop the technology behind the audit instrument and implemented the same on the client servers.
The document discusses Clean Sweep Group Inc. (CSGI), a company that provides ultraviolet disinfection technology and infection prevention solutions. CSGI offers a complete suite of implementation solutions including advanced UV devices, analytic software to track treatments, and on-site field technicians. Research shows reducing environmental contamination can lower infection risks. Customers who have used CSGI's solutions have seen significant reductions in hospital-acquired infections and related cost savings.
Improved Go to Market Time & Reduced Operational CostITC Infotech
The client, an online banking organization, wanted to revamp its product portfolio and introduce new services. It needed to test new applications before launch to ensure secure services. However, the client faced challenges performing all required testing. ITC Infotech implemented a collaborative testing model through a dedicated Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE). The TCoE helped improve testing efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate new product launches through automated testing and optimized processes. This allowed the client to expand its offerings while maintaining high service quality.
FNB - Funeral Automated Claims Processing - Insurer Innovation Award 2022The Digital Insurer
- FNB Life provides funeral insurance and saw a large increase in claims due to COVID-19, placing pressure on their operational staff.
- They developed an automated end-to-end funeral claims processing system using technologies like optical character recognition and machine learning to assess claims and provide digital feedback within minutes.
- The system has processed over 800 claims worth over R6.8 million, with 60% automatically approved and 80% processed within an hour, reducing handling time by 35 minutes and saving over R6.2 million annually in costs.
The document discusses a case study of a global telecoms company reducing the costs of its software testing services. It outlines how the company worked with TCL to transition from flexible resourcing to a managed testing service model. This resulted in a 25% reduction in costs the first year and over 35% the second year, while maintaining testing quality. It also allowed 50% of the testing to be done offshore, further reducing costs. The new model provided the telecoms company with increased stability, accountability, and focus on automation from its external testing suppliers.
The document compares and summarizes 6 top-rated patient portal vendors: MDConnection, NueMD, ElationEMR, ClinicTracker Connect, eClinicalWorks, and Meditab. For each vendor, it provides the product description, overall user rating, an example user review, a case study, screenshots of the portal home page and one functionality (e.g. appointment scheduling), and a description of that functionality.
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Vision impairment goggles are used to simulate the effects of intoxication from alcohol, drugs, or sleep deprivation for substance abuse and safety training. The goggles distort vision to replicate visual effects at various levels of intoxication or fatigue. Training programs use the goggles to demonstrate how impairment can reduce functions like coordination, reaction time, and depth perception. Employers have found the goggles help trainees understand why impairment can compromise safety and how to recognize signs of it in others. Educational institutions also use the goggles to educate students about substance abuse and its effects.
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School districts in Louisiana and Oregon have implemented breath alcohol testing programs at high school events using Lifeloc breathalyzers to increase safety. Prior to testing, at least one student in Louisiana died each year from alcohol-related incidents at events, but this has been eliminated since testing began. In Oregon's Beaverton School District, 6 to 10 students previously died annually in alcohol-related crashes, but since implementing a comprehensive alcohol program including testing, only 3 deaths and 5 injuries have occurred from similar crashes. The breathalyzers allow schools to rapidly screen hundreds of students entering events to prevent intoxicated students from attending and endangering themselves and others.
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The SENTINELTM is a fully automated breath alcohol screening system that allows for rapid, repeatable, and high-volume screening without operator attendance. It is designed for use in industries like mining, oil and gas, and construction. The system provides non-invasive alcohol testing through a self-administered breath test, and displays results on an LCD screen. It is intended to serve as an effective partner in workplace alcohol safety.
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2. Automated Breath Testing Technology Offers Many Benefits to Alcohol Offender Management Centers
By Nicola Grun
Recently my travels took me to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, Wisconsin, a corrections facility that has
embraced new approaches to dealing with the administrative, workload and cost challenges of court ordered
breath alcohol testing. A recently deployed automated breath alcohol screening solution from Lifeloc Technologies has significantly streamlined operations and reduced costs.
Background
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Black River Falls, Wisconsin is inundated with offenders sentenced to
court or community based treatment. These clients require frequent testing and staff spend a good part of each
day, five to seven days a week breath testing alone. Over 6,000 tests and 500 hours of staff testing time were
used last year and their portable breath tester was always hard pressed to handle the peak volumes. Manual testing was quickly approaching the point at which a full-time tester was going to be required.
The Solution
In 2013, Jackson County installed a Lifeloc ZT247™ Probation and Parole
Alcohol Testing System that automates breath alcohol testing and provides administrative, reporting and tracking tools. The fully automated free-standing
kiosk is in the lobby of the Jackson County Courthouse. The kiosk is publicly
accessible and video monitored 24 hours a day.
Every day 10 to 20 low risk offenders use the kiosk’s touchscreen to log in,
identify themselves on the fingerprint scanner and self-administer a breath
test. Client BAC levels are automatically recorded in a fully searchable database. The system provides a myriad of individual summary reporting options
for supervisors and client managers. Client managers can also opt to receive
real-time notifications of alcohol testing violations on their office computers
or mobile devices.
Jail Captain Mike Ring stated, “Lifeloc’s kiosk was one of the only available
products designed for the criminal justice system which suited our needs. The
kiosk eliminated the staff’s testing workload except for the time it takes me,
another supervisor or probation officer to review records.”
Jackson County will soon utilize another feature of the kiosk’s software to
begin random testing: the flexibility to assign and change test interval assignments by day, time, exception and by officer. A computerized call will provide
a two hour notice scheduling an offender to test.
“Incorporating random testing with daily testing will enhance the credibility of the kiosk, better serve our needs
and truly make the client unaware of when they will be tested,” says Captain Ring.
The Solution Benefits
• Total average duration for offender log-on and test time is approximately 30 seconds as compared to the previous manual testing which took up to five minutes per client.
• The hire of a full time testing administrator was avoided. The ZT247™ can handle the same workload faster
and more affordably.
• Violations can be electronically reported in real time and immediate action initiated.
3. • Dramatically reduced phone calls, handwritten records and data entry.
Summary
Court ordered breath alcohol testing and 24/7 offender management programs play an important and necessary part in reducing the overall recidivism rates of alcohol offenders. Effectively managing alcohol testing
with just handheld portable breathalyzers can be unnecessarily expensive,
resource intensive and administratively burdensome.
Recent technology advances in automated breath alcohol testing can now
provide practical and cost effective alternatives to manual breath testing. The above example is proof that Lifeloc’s products produce tangible
benefits to employees, and as a result offenders served. Lifeloc’s mission
is to build the most precise, reliable and easiest to use alcohol breath testing devices in the industry. For further information about our products
please contact our sales department via email: sales@lifeloc.com or call
303.431.9500.