What is a Medical Examiner CMS and how does it help my office?

A Medical Examiner CMS is software that helps coroner and medical examiner offices manage death investigations. Forensic Advantage’s Medical Examiner CMS streamlines case intake, tracking, autopsy reports, and evidence documentation.

Can the Medical Examiner CMS be customized to our office's workflow?

Yes. The Medical Examiner CMS from Forensic Advantage is configurable to fit any size office or jurisdiction's unique workflows, forms, and protocols.

Is the Medical Examiner CMS compliant with legal and accreditation standards?

Yes. The Medical Examiner CMS supports compliance with NAME, ABMDI, and other industry standards, offering full audit trails, chain of custody, and FOIA-ready documentation.

How does the Medical Examiner CMS integrate with forensic labs?

Forensic Advantage's Medical Examiner CMS integrates with our Crime Lab LIMS, streamlining the connection between autopsy, toxicology, and lab testing results.

Is the Medical Examiner CMS cloud-based or on-premises?

You can choose either. The Medical Examiner CMS is available as a secure cloud-hosted system or a local on-premises solution depending on your agency's needs.

Powerful Medical Examiner CMS for Modern Case Management

Medical Examiner Case Management System

The Forensic Advantage Medical Examiner Case Management System is designed to cater to the distinct needs of coroner and medical examiner offices, regardless of their size or location. It can be easily configured to match your work processes and deployed rapidly.

FAS's Forensic Medical Software is your comprehensive solution for handling cases with ease and efficiency. With our forensic medical software, you can ensure confidentiality while managing cases, track the involvement of various individuals and agencies including hospitals, law enforcement, and more, and link cases to mass casualty events or related cases for a comprehensive overview. We simplify the process by merging decedent case records when DNA matches are identified across multiple cases and provide an integrated Case Log for seamless task management, note-taking, and event tracking. Our hierarchical task workflows simplify operations, with triggered events based on predefined schedules. Plus, our drag-and-drop object repositories make it easy to store and access digital photos, documents, and reports. With our QuickAction™ feature, updating common case details is a breeze, all from a single screen.

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DECEDENT

Hospice death pre-registration staging that can roll into a case when needed.
Full biographical and demographical data collection including social, ethnic, industry, occupation, and education classifications.
Family and related persons with family histories.
Plugin support for independent Child Fatality case management teams.

HUMAN IDENTIFICATION

General routine identification protocol for recording records and findings.
Record processes for missing person comparisons, fingerprints, radiographs, DNA, non-human remains, and more.
Dental analysis for each tooth with support for digital X-ray storage.
Anthropology analysis of the complete human skeleton with condition statements, sex estimation, ancestry, stature, and adult, fetal, and sub-adult age estimation calculators.

MEDICOLEGAL DEATH INVESTIGATIONS

Process body and scene including body and environmental data.
Capture decedent history, incidents, injuries, medical history, social history, and other factors.
Investigator narratives on any topic.
Prescription drug, and decedent vaccination cataloging.
Special circumstance record entry for over 15 suspicious death topics including asphyxiation, drowning, fire, hanging, firearm, infant, poisoning, suicide, vehicle, and more.
Referral and organ procurement tracking.
Records request tracking to/from outside agencies.
Collect final disposition information
Investigation report generation with review/approval options.

MORGUE OPERATIONS AND AUTOPSIES

Body processing, personal effects, and evidence collection with full chain of custody.
Record diseases and disease testing methods.
Toxicology, Histology, and Microbiology request tracking to internal or external labs.
Autopsy photos are stored in a private object repository.
Autopsy data entry via QuickAction™ screen or long forms (more data entry options) as needed.
Integrated dictation from Windows® is supported.
Multiple autopsies supported.
Autopsy report generation with review/approval options.
ICD-10 coding.
Record Death Certificates and Vital Statistics information.

FA ONSCENE POWERED BY ACCURACSI

Accelerates the Scene Investigation process, efficiently managing both small and large, complex investigations involving multiple investigators.
Accessible through a web interface, hotspot configuration, or offline mode, it adapts to specific scene requirements.

REPORTING

Powerful Document Generation (DocGen) system with support for custom templates and data sources.
Customization of Investigation and Autopsy Findings reports based on customer needs.

TOXICOLOGY

Conduct testing on biological samples, identify chemicals, batch, preserve, and analyze either through instrument integration or oversee third-party lab requests.

EDRS

Forensic Advantage works with customers to provide EDRS (Electronic Death Registry System) system integrations.

Features in FA's Medical Examiner CMS

User-Friendly Tools

User-friendly tools providing easy access and reporting of information, including specimen and property status, ensuring a secure chain-of-custody from the scene through final disposition.

Easy Codes, Findings, and Status

Preliminary, contributory, cause / manner of death, ICD codes, findings and body disposition status.

Customizable Systems

Over 70 fully customizable system views capture and report critical case data, as well as show status information for every case.

Simple Case Management

Simple electronic case management such as reserving a case number, collecting investigation information, and generating investigation and autopsy findings.

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Quick Process Intake

Quickly process body intake, inventory personal property, make observations and collect specimens to help examiners and pathologists streamline laboratory functions such as autopsy, organ procurement, X-ray, toxicology lab orders and comprehensive autopsies.