CareWorks Community Care SCHEMES was developed for the administration of Community SCHEMES in Ireland and support a client centred approach to service delivery in the Health Service Executive (HSE). CareWorks Community Care Schemes is already implemented at the majority of HSE areas in Ireland. The system has evolved to reflect the requirements of users throughout the PCCC sector of the Irish Health Services and was developed in close consultation with HSE area customers. Over 2.75 million people are currently registered on the CareWorks SCHEMES databases and there are over 950 users of the modules throughout the Health services.

Built around a shared client index accessible to all services, CareWorks Community Care Schemes incorporates:

• Central Client Index
• Medical Cards
• Drug Payments
• Child Immunisations and Developmental Screening
• Personal Child Health Record
• High Tech Drugs
• Homeless Services
• Nursing Home Subvention
• Long Term Illness
• Health Amendment Act
• GP Practice Maintenance
• Financial Payments
• Community Care Referrals
• Services/Placements Recording
• Child Care
• Occupational Therapy
• Aids and Appliances Gases
• Incontinence
• Speech & Language Therapy
• Community Asset Tracking
• Intellectual Disabilities
• Management Information and Data Quality

Key Benefits

• Improve data quality
• Information is more accessible to HSE Area services in order to confirm a client’s identity and status and to determine current eligibility for an individual service or across multiple services
• Provide a unique identifier – PPS number to support unique identification of clients (National Health Information Strategy – recommendation 16)
• Provide management information for individual services or across all services using powerful data warehousing technologies from Microsoft
• Implement an electronic client/patient record within a HSE Area

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