There are about 22 million college students in the U.S. eligible to use campus health centers. While over 80% of them reported to the American College Health Association (ACHA) that their health is good, very good or excellent, there has been a noted increase in students seeking mental health care.
In fact, 41.2% of students sought care from a counselor/therapist or psychologist for mental health issues. And, according to the ACHA, more than 60% of college students said they had experienced overwhelming anxiety in the past year while over 40% said they felt so depressed they had difficulty functioning.
Statistics like these indicate a need for campus health centers to offer more mental health services. They also support that keeping secure and detailed records is paramount in creating a comprehensive medical record that provides a complete history of health now and well into the future.
Campus health centers – like other medical providers – are held to federal and state laws for protecting health information and retaining medical records. In fact, some institutions must store student records 10+ years after the last semester of attendance, making it necessary for universities to have a secure, long-term data management strategy. This includes student medical record archiving.
HealthData Archiver® is a record storage solution that delivers a single point of access to historical patient information. This HIPAA-compliant solution also allows for secure, user-restricted access to documented behavioral health information.
In addition to other risk and cost savings benefits, HealthData Archiver® offers both interoperability and data analytics capabilities for colleges tracking population health information as a part of the College Health Surveillance Network (CHSN), a national database of over 1 million enrolled students from student health centers at universities across the country.
Harmony Healthcare IT, the makers of HealthData Archiver®, is equipped to provide campus health centers with technical and business guidance that will allow them to develop and execute a secure legacy data management strategy. That’s why we offer campus health centers data management services like extraction, migration, retention and student medical record archiving.
Are you seeking data archiving solutions or a legacy system replacement strategy for your student health center? We’re experienced in decommissioning major EHR brands often used in campus health centers.
Need to make sure all your mental health documentation is secure and your data retention and population health requirements can be met long after the student has left campus?
