Medical Examiner &

Coroner Software

Alcestis provides resources and technical assistance to users of the system. Medical examiner and coroner offices receive a user manual, codebook, and instructions on entering data via the secure Internet site. Epidemiological, statistical, and technical assistance is provided over the phone or in-person. Training on completing the Death Scene Investigation Report (DSIR) as well as data entry is available. A number of pre-defined reports are available on-line through the database website.
Participating offices have the ability to electronically enter, track, retrieve, and update cases while incurring none of the development or maintenance costs of creating a custom database. Using the Internet to enter data eliminates version control issues and installation problems.
The database provides standardized data that will allow comparisons between counties and the compilation of regional or state estimates. An advisory group, consisting of medical examiners, the CDC, and pilot counties developed a uniform coding scheme for data. This means that data can be collected in the same way by all participating offices. The system offers medical examiners and coroners a valuable tool for handling cases, training new death scene investigators and assessing case volume and type in comparison to other counties.
Alcestis can be customized to meet the individual data collection needs of medical examiner and coroner offices.