Many organizations have adopted a "siloed care management" model, where one care provider (whether a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist) or team of providers specializes in one particular condition for a wide panel of patients. Under this model of care, a patient with multiple conditions may have several providers, one for each condition. AmCare facilitates this model by allowing each provider to "own" a part of the patient’s care plan, yet enabling each provider to see what the others are doing. When one makes a change in the patient’s chart, the others see it and can even be notified. Providers can cluster their appointments together to save patients' time. Plans of care can be simplified, and more drug-disease interactions can be caught. Outcomes reports reflect every user's actions, greatly simplifying quality assurance reporting for administrators. Furthermore, providers trained on AmCare can easily move between specialties, without having to be retrained on a new computer system.

Other organizations have opted for a "comprehensive care management" model, where one care provider manages all of his or her patients’ conditions, where a primary physician delegates disease management to one mentored "care manager," or where a primary physician relies on a local support staff.

AmCare is equally well suited to both of these models of care, as it allows a provider to own a patient’s entire care plan, or several providers to share overlapping responsibilities. Every condition is displayed on the same screen, and changes made for one condition are immediately reflected in the others where they overlap. Here AmCare’s primary advantage is in simplifying life for care providers. They need to learn only one computer program. They can customize each patient’s plan of care according to his or her particular needs. And they see multiple conditions thoroughly integrated into one chart and one outcomes report.

Uses in many other contexts.

AmCare is useful in other settings as well. In group health contexts, AmCare can retrieve and print patient charts, and can record interventions and plans of care after appointments are over. AmCare can manage patient populations where providers intervene occasionally without taking on ongoing responsibility for those patients. It identifies candidates for specific interventions and can generate batch letters for all patients in a population, or only for patients matching certain criteria (for instance, overdue for a particular examination or treatment).

AmCare is designed to work around your organization’s structures and health care priorities. It adapts easily to any of these particular contexts, as well as to the mixed contexts typical of large organizations, and scales from private doctors’ offices to vertically integrated health maintenance organizations.