Track the handoff
See release, prescription, fill, and first follow-up in one record.
Make the medication handoff visible after release.
Molus is a working prototype for teams helping people with serious mental illness after jail release or psychiatric discharge. We’re testing whether one shared view of the prescription, fill, and first follow-up can help care coordinators see what needs attention.
Walk us through a recent handoffThe problem
Every agency touches the handoff. No one owns it.
A jail or hospital may know the release date. A community provider may own follow-up. A pharmacy sees the prescription. None of them sees the whole handoff, and the person leaving care is often expected to connect it.
When medication or follow-up falls through, people can end up back in the emergency department, crisis services, or jail.
Working prototype
A board for the handoff.
This is one approach we’re testing with care coordinators and case managers. It is a working product, not a finished workflow.
Capabilities
Three ideas we’re testing in the product.
Put missing work in front of a person
Molus can flag gaps and draft follow-up work. Care coordinators decide what happens next; a licensed counselor — an LPC or LMHC — directs care.
Start with text messages
People leaving care can receive simple, private messages without downloading another app.
Guiding principle
Share what prevents an arrest — and nothing more.
The evidence
Why this handoff matters.
County jail release
10%
of people treated for behavioral health in jail receive a community mental-health service within 14 days of release.
Psychiatric discharge
30-day
follow-up after psychiatric discharge is a standard HEDIS measure. The work behind that measure starts before discharge and continues after the person returns home.
The county view
873
people with mental-health identifiers in the Travis County jail in the January 2023 census. The county's own review named data sharing as the gap.
Help shape the workflow
Bring us one handoff that should have gone better.
We’re in the listening phase. In a short learning conversation, we’ll ask how release, prescription, fill, and first follow-up move today — where the work stalls, who finds out, and what happens next.
For care coordinators, case managers, clinical leads, pharmacists, and county partners.