Portable Information Collection Kit (PICK)

Key Benefits

• PICK is easy-to-use portable software to collect data in any out-of-office location, helping mobile workers do more in less time.
• PICK is adaptive software, allowing each customer to collect whatever information they need, defined precisely as they need.
• PICK is a customized set of tools to replace paper work file folders, giving mobile workers access to information they need, wherever and whenever they need it.
• PICK is particularly effective in replacing paper case files for human service agencies who conduct in-depth interviews with people in their home and need on-going access key information.
• PICK updates information in a centralized database using "EZ-Sync" technology that avoids 'checking out' and locking records to improve information sharing between mobile workers and office staff.

Technical Details

PICK works on both laptop and tablet computers running Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

Customer develop custom data profiles of the information they need to collect with PICK.  The following formats for different data types are available for PICK users:

• dates
• text boxes (typically up to 50 characters)
• memo fields (maximum of 4, 000 characters)
• radio groups (list responses to select only one response)
• check boxes (list responses to select "all that apply")
• pull-down lists (with customized list of choices)

Data collected by PICK can be synchronized and stored on either the CIM's Oracle database server using our hosting services or on a customer-provided SQL database server.