iCare An educational Electronic Health Record

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iCareAn educational Electronic Health Record

• A Review.

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What is iCare?

• An Electronic Health Record (EHR) system
  specifically designed for the education of
  healthcare professional students.

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Why was iCare made?

• The iCare team researched both open access (free
  shareware) EHRs as well as commercially
  available EHRs for the educational setting
• Open access EHRs didnt offer the features we
  were seeking and commercially available EHRs
  were either suboptimal or prohibitively expensive

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What does iCare do for students?

• iCare allows the educator the ability to
• Ability to enter and retrieve data pertinent to
  the healthcare of simulated adult
  medical/surgical patients
• A documentation format and sequence that supports
  and reinforces practice of a thorough physical
  assessment
• Ability to familiarize themselves with the use of
  EHRs in a controlled setting, not on live
  patients in the clinical environment.

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What does iCare do for educators?

• iCare allows the educator the ability to
• enroll students into iCare classes
• assign patient care scenarios to students
• track student data input as well as software
  navigation
• provide electronic feedback as well as test
  students on how well they document patient care.
• create their own patient case scenarios for use
  in the classroom.

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Who makes up iCares market?

• There are over 3000 nursing programs nationally
• 190,896 nursing graduates took their respective
  licensing examinations in 2008.
• 129,121 graduates took the NCLEX-RN
• 61,775 took the NCLEX-PN
• (National Council of State Boards of Nursing,
  2009)
• Larger potential market in allied health sciences
  (Occupation Therapy, Physical Therapy,
  Respiratory Therapy, Social Work, Pharmacy)

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What is an iCare customers return on investment?
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What is in the future for iCare?

• Learning-Test Mode, ability to learn the software
  with tips and help functions as well ability for
  instructor to turn tips and help functions off
  for testing of student knowledge base.
• Additional patient populations (Pediatrics,
  OB/GYN, Mental Health)
• Data mining capacity to educate graduate students
  on the power of data and its role in guiding
  evidence based practice.
• Ability to generate reports from iCare that
  describe characteristics of an entire patient
  population based upon patient case studies
  entered into iCare databases.
• Documentation unique to other allied health
  science students
• Advanced educational tools (definitions, help)