iCare - End User Features
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Why Use iCare?
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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.
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Current Features of Version 1.1
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- 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.
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Upcoming Features
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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.
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