iCare

About iCare

What is iCare? Answer: Population Management

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.

At a glance:

Graphic User Interface into RPMS patient data
Complements EHR
Custom patient panels
Facilitates provider review
Population, community, and patient perspective views
Improved management of breast, cervical, colon, and skeletal health procedures

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

iCare Version History

iCare v2.3 - Improving Patient Care (IPC) / Employee Health iCare version 2.3 introduces quite a few new features. One of the primary goals was to support the IPC program through increasing the efficiency in reporting out IPC defined provider measures. This was done through automating data collection and population of data exports necessary for IPC reporting.

Features included in iCare v2.3

IPC Tabs
- Patient Detail
- Panel Detail
- Provider Aggregated (IPC Export)
- Facility Aggregated
Enhanced Panel Definitions
- Categorize panels
- Define as an IPC panel
- Locate patients NOT assigned to a Primary Care Provider
- Create panels based on multiple providers
- Create panels based on primary care teams
- Create employee health panels
- Define based on labs or patients who have NOT had a lab
- Define base on medications or patients who are NOT on a medication
Enhanced MU Clinical Quality Measures Reporting
Pregnancy Diagnostic Tag
Support for BMX 4.0
- Allows support multiple server environments
Addition of New Site Parameters
- Employee health
- Pregnancy definition
- IPC data collection
- iCare inactivity timeout
Custom Template Creation and Sharing

iCare v2.2 - Meaningful Use (MU) / Certification

iCare v2.2 focused on MU and Certification requirements enhancing the visibility of measures through a graphic user interface.

Features included in iCare v2.2:

Introduction of MU tabs

Provider Performance
Hospital/CAHs Performance
Provider Clinical Quality
Hospital/CAHs Clinical Quality

iCare v2.1 - 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 new features visit the CMET link in the left menu.