iCare - End User Features

iCare helps IHS providers by:

• Proactively identifying and managing different groups (populations) of patients who share user-defined characteristics.
• Providing an integrated view of a patient's conditions that would minimize "stovepiped" care management.
• Providing an intuitive and integrated interface to the diverse patient data elements of the RPMS database.
• Facilitating provider review of clinical quality of care measures for their own patients to enable improvement in the quality of healthcare delivery.
• Enabling views of traditional healthcare information from the perspectives of community, population and public health.

• Allows individual providers to create and manage patient lists (panels) using specific criteria.
• Allows customization of layouts and data elements displayed.
• Allows providers to share patient lists with other providers as read only or read/write.
• Provides "auto-tagging" of patients with one or more clinical diagnoses, such as diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular disease, and others.
• Displays flags to make users aware of Abnormal Labs; Hospital Admissions; Emergency Room Visits; or Unanticipated Returns to the Emergency Room.
• Displays user-selected Health Summary Reminders in a patient list grid that can be sorted, filtered and exported into Excel.
• Displays national performance measures for any panel of patients.
• Aggregated views for both National Performance Measures and Reminders provide an overall trend analysis of a patient panel related to key clinical quality criteria.
• Patient Record view displays details of most patient data, such as labs, medications, health factors, etc.
• RPMS Visit data can be displayed from any view by clicking on a date link

Your Site Manager can download iCare software from the RPMS web site. Click here for the RPMS software download site.

iCare is being developed and deployed in phased versions. Some features that you can look forward to include:

• Individual GUIs to existing RPMS case management (register) systems (e.g., Case Management, HIV, and Women's Health).
• A user-friendly GUI for most key elements of Q-Man, the current RPMS query tool.
• A patient snapshot that presents the most relevant recent results and upcoming clinical needs (reminders) based on gender, age, key diagnostic conditions and national performance priorities at your site.
• Integrated healthcare reminders and treatment prompts.
• User-friendly letter creation.
• Community alerts and community and household profiles.
• Individual and group order entry.
• Group notes.