The AmCare Clinical Suite embraces the philosophies of proactive patient care and population-based patient care. The efficiencies and effectiveness of these approaches result in healthier patients, reduced hospitalizations, simplified care, and caseloads previously unheard of in disease management.

Proactive care: Information you need to know, when you need to know it.

As AmCare users enter information on their patients, or as data interfaces encounter new events for AmCare patients, AmCare notifies users about important changes concerning their patient panels. This allows care providers to respond to events on their own initiative. When integrated into AmCare’s workflow engine, proactive messaging enables one care provider with clerical support to manage up to several hundred patients with chronic diseases, a caseload far beyond that possible without a computer system.

Population-based care: Catch crises before they're critical.

Population tracking develops a profile of a region’s entire population. If patients are unassigned to panels, information about new events can still be retained. In this way, a profile can gradually be gathered for an entire patient population. This vast set of patients can then be analyzed and understood in terms of its probabilities of future hospital admissions. Or it can be understood in terms of its probabilities of suffering from particular disease states (such as congestive heart failure).

Once the information is gathered and analyzed, patients can be identified as candidates for different levels of care: One-time interventions, physician notification, group appointments, or active disease management. Or the patient population can be studied as a control group against which to measure results among the patients who are actively managed.

The bottom line: Healthier, happier patients.

Together, these two approaches yield savings that can be measured in terms of patients’ quality of life, or in terms of costs. Patients are hospitalized less often; and those with multiple disease states have simpler relationships with their health care providers. And because population-based care identifies patients earlier than reactive approaches, reduced hospitalizations alone account for enormous cost savings.

AmCare’s open architecture and extensibility mean that new risk assessment methods, search and messaging criteria, and population reports can be developed quickly and easily. These can then be added into the AmCare system, or revised over time, without modifying the main AmCare program.