B Care
B Care is a robust and flexible platform for digitizing healthcare processes across the continuum of care that includes an integrated suite of point-of-care assessment, case management, and scheduling tools. As the basis for B Sharp’s growing family of healthcare solutions, B Care offers functionality that is common to most healthcare processes while, at the same time, providing tools to configure and tailor the data collection, workflow, and data sharing processes to meet sector and organization specific needs. By using a common platform to create solutions targeted at specific segments of the continuum of care, B Sharp is able to offer a wide variety of solutions at very affordable prices.
B Care Health Solutions
Partnering with lead clients to gain critical insights and understanding of sector-specific data capture, workflow, and reporting requirements, B Sharp has leveraged the rich features of B Care to develop sector and process specific solutions that address these requirements. These solutions include:
B Care In-patient Mental Health Solution
Currently used to manage more than 40% of the in-patient beds in Ontario, the B Care In-patient Mental Health solution can be used on its own or in conjunction with a hospital’s existing electronic patient record system. As a standalone system, the B Care In-patient Mental Health solution offers a complete case management and scheduling system as well as a comprehensive electronic patient record. When used in conjunction with other systems, the B Care In-patient Mental solution supports the collection of data for the Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS).
B Care Community Mental Health Solution
Designed specifically for organizations providing community mental services, the B Care Community Mental Health solution provides the tools needed to collect and report data required for the Common Data Set for Mental Health (CDS-MH) and the Ontario Common Assessment of Need (OCAN) and accommodates the Ontario Integrated Assessment Record (IAR). In addition, the B Care Community Mental Health solution offers sophisticated case management features including integrated progress notes for those organizations that do not have any sort of electronic client record.
B Care Continuing Care Solution
B Care’s sophisticated electronic forms and reporting features make it an ideal platform to address the mandated assessment and reporting requirements for the continuing care sector. The B Care Continuing Care solution supports the collection and submision of data to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) for the Continuing Care Reporting System (CCRS) and National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS) programs.
B Care Cardiac Outpatient Management Solution
While the typical hospital / clinical information system offers a good platform with which to digitize many healthcare processes, it frequently does not address the specific workflow and data handling needs of outpatient clinics and specialty units. A recent addition to the B Care health solutions family, the B Care Cardiac Outpatient Management solution captures, organizes, and presents relevant health information about patients receiving cardiac care on an outpatient basis. In addition, the same solution handles many of the administrative tasks associated with booking patients and coordinating the availability of clinicians and the resources required to deliver outpatient cardiac care.
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B Care Medication Management Solution
Ideally suited for community hospitals and other facilities providing in-patient services, the B Care Medication Management solution offers comprehensive functionality including medication order fulfillment and medication inventory management at an affordable price. The B Care Medication Management solution can be used in conjunction with other B Care Health solutions, as a standalone application, or as part of an integrated, best of breed architecture.
Custom Solutions
As demonstrated by the nature and number of B Care solution offerings, the B Care health information platform can be used to digitize a wide variety of healthcare processes. For those organizations seeking to automate an aspect of their operations not addressed by an existing B Care solution, B Sharp can create a customized B Care based solution. These solutions offer many of the benefits of custom developed software at a lower cost as well as reduced development time and risk. In addition, customers can rely on B Sharp for on-going support and software upgrades.
B Care Features
B Care supports a rich feature set that can be used in various combinations to create solutions specific to particular segments of the continuum of care. Key features include:
Registration/Admission-Discharge-Transfer (ADT)
From the moment an individual enters a healthcare organization, B Care ADT means up-to-the-minute tracking and management of all client activities. Understanding these movements and the composition of the client population facilitates the case management process, utilization and productivity.
Built on the Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) for a fully integrated system, B Care ADT is easily synchronized through HL7 messaging with other healthcare systems and client registries. Up-to-the-minute key client demographic and other healthcare or health-related information is readily accessible through B Care ADT.
B Care Provides:
- Seamless integration: ADT can be seamlessly integrated with existing systems and/or client registries to facilitate a smooth registration process and provide quality data to all users.
- Real-time tracking: Easy-to-use tracking and management of all client activities, contacts, and wait lists.
- Robust reporting and analysis: Healthcare organizations can choose from a full spectrum of reports and filters to analyze data and conduct benchmarking and trend analysis in real-time.
- Data Integrity: Audit and decision support tools promote accountability and enhance the integrity of the data within the system and provide for quality data collection.
Whether you are looking for a solution to service a healthcare organization with one or multiple sites or looking to service many facilities across multiple sites, the foundation of all B Care applications is the Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI). The EMPI acts as a central repository of key client data including demographic, financial, caregivers, substitute decision makers and employment details to name a few.
B Care's EMPI is built to facilitate integration with provincial and national registries so that client files can be authenticated and updated real-time. All client history is stored which promotes data integrity and accommodates the tracking of client activity.
Assessments and Reporting
Data can only be useful when it is recorded accurately. In a clinical environment, the data collection process has to be straightforward and simple to understand yet provide critical information during the assessment process.
B Care's E-Forms allow clinicians to focus on care while collecting valuable client data and information. Assessment and diagnosis can happen more quickly when and where it is needed. By having the right information in the clinician's hands, it means better client care and improved outcomes.
E-Forms is a complete documentation package providing customizable form design, client centric care planning and free form note documentation. E-Forms offers the ultimate in flexibility and clinical value by allowing a healthcare organization to add or customize a form to its multidisciplinary setting and populating a care plan in real-time as responses are documented.
E-Reports allows users to tap into the data collected to produce analysis and timely evidence-based reports on clients and the activities of a healthcare facility in general. E-Reports provides a set of standard reports as well as the ability to create customized reports. It can also be used for regulatory reporting requirements. E-Reports is licensed to comply with the data submission specifications of the appropriate healthcare agencies.
Acute Care
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has officially licensed B Care's Assessment and Reporting tools (E-Forms and E-Reports) for the following products:
- Continuing Care Reporting System (CCRS)
- Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)
- Home Care Reporting System (HCRS)
- National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS)
- National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS)
- Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS)
Community Care
B Care's E-Forms and E-Reports also accommodates data collection and reporting in the community sector supporting the Commond Data Set for Mental Heath (CDS-MH) and the Ontario Common Assessment of Need (OCAN).
Synoptic Reporting
Synoptic Reporting is an integral part of administration and client care. When integrated with a provider's ADT system, a facility can effectively manage paper documents and client information online within a secure web-based environment.
Templates are designed to interact with client, provider and customer databases to make developing communication documents simple. It also facilitates the transcription of handwritten clinician notes. So searching and retrieving documents in any form is more efficient.
- Integrated word processing: From completing standard letters to Ministries to client legal forms to inter-departmental memos, B Care templates help create, customize and streamline the documentation process. Full integration with HIS systems offers interactive word processing.
- Centralized library: Whether the information is structured or unstructured,
B Care provides a web-based infrastructure to securely store, search, retrieve, edit and manage documents. - Audit and Security: Full auditing capabilities that track all changes on a file including who and when as well as configurable security access and version controls for the document creation process.