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Welcome This site will serve as a central repository for the most current information on the Indian Health Service (IHS) iCare application. What is iCare? iCare is a Population Management software tool that helps you efficiently manage the care of your patients. When utilized in conjunction with the IHS Electronic Health Record (EHR) tool, iCare provides a comprehensive view of patient information. The ability to create multiple panels of patients with common characteristics (e.g., age, diagnosis, community) allows you to personalize the way you view patient data. This provides staff, clinics and sites invaluable access to information, enhancing the clinical decision making experience. Through iCare's interface IHS has reduced the learning curve making information more easily accessible. iCare retrieves important patient information from various components of the Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS) database and brings it together under a single, user-friendly interface. iCare Version 2.1 - CMET New with iCare v2.1 is the addition of the Care Management Event Tracking (CMET) module. This module adds all new functionality to better address the needs of Women's Health. CMET provides a platform to track and manage patients with events falling under four specific categories: Breast, Cervical, Colon, and Skeletal. To learn more about these great features visit the CMET link in the left menu. Who Should Use iCare? Any provider who needs to identify a group of patients for either long-term management or simply to create a temporary list should think about using iCare. Do you fit any of the following scenarios? I am a nurse at a facility that works closely with several primary care providers. Every day, I want to create a list of scheduled patients for the different doctors in my clinics. I want to identify which of my patients are considered obese so I can recommend nutrition counseling. I want to identify which patients did not keep their appointments at one of my clinics Because providers at our clinic have performance goals related to annual GPRA clinical measures, I want to identify which of my patients are missing key clinical data. I am one of two part-time case managers for a group of children, and I want to create a patient list that we both can use Current Status - Version 2.1 Released March 11, 2011 iCare version 2.0 (BQI) was released nationally June 18, 2009. In March of 2011 iCare version 2.1 will be nationally released. Check with your site manager to ensure you have the latest version of iCare loaded on your computer. iCare is a client-server application, which means that software is loaded both on your site's server and an individual user's computer (client). Due to the number of enhancements included in version 2.1, the interface will have to be loaded on the individual users' computers even if version 2.0 was already loaded. The panels created by each user and shared with the user will transfer from version 2.0 to this newest version.