Mortuary: Body register, storage, release authorisation and mortuary billing

Body intake, cold storage, autopsy, embalming, release, death certificate

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Mortuary in the Bridge HMS Suite: Body register, storage, release authorisation and mortuary billing

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Everything in Mortuary

63 items in 13 areas, every one shipping with the app today.

Body Intake & Records
- Body registration with auto tag numberEvery deceased is logged as a Body in Custody record with a year-sequenced tag number (M/YYYY/00001) generated automatically.
- Deceased identity captureRecords deceased name, date of birth, age at death, sex, and national ID/passport number for identification.
- Link to hospital patientOptionally links the body to the patient record if the deceased was seen alive in the hospital.
- Eight intake source channelsClassifies each intake as inpatient, ER, ICU, theater, brought-in-dead, external-facility transfer, police/crime-scene, or from home.
- Death particularsCaptures time of death, place of death, declaring doctor, clinical/forensic cause of death, and ICD-10 cause code.
- Death certificate referenceStores the issued death certificate number against the body record.
Cold Storage & Chambers
- Cold chamber registerMaintains a catalog of mortuary cold chambers each tied to a facility with a unique name.
- Five chamber temperature classesSupports positive-temp (+2/+4C), negative/freezer (-15/-25C), forensic (-25/-40C), bariatric oversized, and isolation/infectious chamber types.
- Target vs current temperatureEach chamber holds a target temperature and current reading for at-a-glance cold-chain monitoring.
- Chamber status lifecycleTracks chamber status as operational, under maintenance, temperature alarm, or out of service.
- Numbered compartmentsEach chamber holds individually positioned compartments (e.g. A-01, B-12) with uniqueness enforced per chamber.
- Live occupancy computationAutomatically computes occupied and free compartment counts per chamber from body assignments.
Body Workflow & Custody
- Eight-stage body state machineDrives each body through intake, cold storage, awaiting autopsy, autopsy done, embalming, ready for release, released, and disposed-unclaimed.
- Store-in-compartment actionA guarded button assigns storage and routes the body to autopsy-pending or stored based on whether autopsy is required.
- Autopsy-routing on intakeBodies flagged autopsy-required automatically move to the awaiting-autopsy state on storage.
- Ready-for-release actionA workflow button marks a stored, autopsied, or embalmed body ready for handover.
- Guarded release actionRelease is blocked until a release record exists, then frees the compartment on handover.
- Dispose-unclaimed actionA confirmed action disposes an unclaimed body and releases its compartment.
Autopsy Register
- Autopsy record with auto referenceCreates sequenced autopsy records (AUT/YYYY/00001) linked to the body, auto-attaching to the body's autopsy field.
- Three autopsy typesSupports clinical, forensic/medico-legal, and partial/limited autopsy classifications.
- Four-stage autopsy workflowMoves the autopsy through draft, in-progress, preliminary report, and final report states.
- Pathologist and assistant assignmentRecords the responsible pathologist and an optional assistant on each autopsy.
- Police-witness captureFlags whether a police witness was present and records the officer for medico-legal cases.
- External & internal examination notesSeparate free-text fields document external and internal examination findings.
Embalming
- Embalming record with auto referenceCreates sequenced embalming records (EMB/YYYY/00001) linked to the body and its embalming field.
- Five embalming techniquesSupports arterial injection, cavity aspiration/injection, hypodermic, surface, and combined techniques.
- Three-stage embalming workflowTracks embalming through draft, in-progress, and done states, with a canceled option.
- Embalmer and timingRecords the assigned embalmer with started and completed timestamps (auto-stamped on completion).
- Fluid documentationCaptures embalming fluid brand and volume used in millilitres.
- Cosmetics & clothing flagsBooleans record whether cosmetics and clothing were applied to the body.
Body Release & Repatriation
- Release record with auto referenceCreates sequenced release records (REL/YYYY/00001) linked to the body and its release field.
- Four-stage release workflowMoves releases through draft, approved, released, and canceled states with statusbar guidance.
- Receiver identity & ID verificationCaptures receiver name, relation, phone, and ID type (national ID, passport, driver license, other) plus number.
- Witness requirementEach release records the staff member who witnessed the handover.
- Payment-settlement gateApproval is blocked unless storage/service fees are marked settled, with amount recorded.
- Police-clearance gateWhen police clearance is required, its number is mandatory before approval and release.
Temperature & Cold-Chain Monitoring
- Chamber temperature logbookRecords timestamped temperature readings per chamber with the recording user and notes.
- Automatic in-range flagEach reading is auto-evaluated against the chamber target within a 2C tolerance and flagged in/out of range.
- Out-of-range visual highlightingThe temperature log list highlights out-of-range readings in red for quick spotting.
- Automated temperature-alarm cronA 30-minute scheduled job flips operational chambers to temperature-alarm status when readings drift beyond tolerance.
Automation & Alerts
- Days-in-custody recompute cronA 12-hourly scheduled job recomputes custody days for all bodies not yet released or disposed.
- Unclaimed-body alert cronA daily job posts a chatter alert on bodies held over 14 days prompting next-of-kin contact.
- Activity & messaging mixinBodies, chambers, autopsies, and releases carry mail activities and chatter for task scheduling and audit.
What it configures
- Mortuary Compartment
- Body in Mortuary Custody
- Mortuary Chamber Temperature Log
- Mortuary Cold Chamber
- Autopsy Record
- Embalming Record
What it configures (continued)
- Body Release Record
- Mortuary Visitor / Viewing Log
Wards & Admissions
- Bodies in Custody
- Cold Chambers
- Autopsies
- Embalming
- Releases
- Temperature Logs
It runs by itself
- Mortuary: Recompute days in custodyRuns every 12 hours
- Mortuary: Flag unclaimed bodies (>14 days)Runs daily
- Mortuary: Recompute chamber temp alarmsRuns every 30 minutes
Roles it ships
- Mortuary Attendant
- Mortuary Supervisor
- Mortuary Pathologist

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What Mortuary works with

Mortuary shares one database with the rest of the Bridge HMS Suite and BridgeERP: these are the apps it already talks to, with nothing to buy in between.