Esprit upgrade ShareCare: Direct to Version 1.0
Esprit are delighted to announce that on Friday 27th January, ShareCare: Direct was upgraded successfully from version 0.5 to version 1.0 in the East Cheshire Common Assessment Framework for Adults (CAF) Partnership area.
The upgrade has allowed the East Cheshire Common Assessment Framework for Adults (CAF) Partnership to offer a wide range of new functionally and features throughout ShareCare: Direct.
Several areas of ShareCare: Direct have been updated and adapted particularly in the ‘My Choice’ area, which allows users to submit self-assessments and make an enquiry direct to the council social care department. Version 1.0 will give users the ability to ‘access’ their social care records in real time and provide full delegated access to other trusted individuals to act on the users behalf throughout the site – a first in a local authority in England.
For a comprehensive description of the ShareCare: Direct product please contact us on:
Telephone: 01332 412200
Email: info@esprit-is.com
Thank you to the Esprit upgrade team for all their hard-work to ensure that the upgrade was rapidly implemented and a great success.
Esprit raise £535 for the ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ Foundation
Over the course of the last year Esprit staff have raised £535 for the ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ Foundation as part of Esprit’s ’10 years of Innovation’ celebrations.
‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ aim to make magical memories for children with life threatening diseases and their family to remember for a lifetime.
The presentation was made by Ben Mutton to corporate fundraiser for the East Midlands Sarah Madden on the 18th January.
Esprit would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has donated over the course of the last year, every pound really does make a difference to this fantastic cause.
If you would like to know more about When You Wish upon a Star please visit : http://www.whenyouwishuponastar.org.uk/
ShareCare PDS Integration goes live in Cheshire East
Following on from the Connecting for Health accreditation in December 2011, Esprit are pleased to announce that in partnership with Cheshire East Council and IBM, the ShareCare system went live with full NHS Personal Demographic Service (PDS) integration on the 3rd January 2012.
ShareCare achieves formal accreditation from NHS CfH
Esprit are pleased to announce that ShareCare has become the first social care application to achieve accreditation for integration with the NHS Personal Demographic Service (PDS).
In order to ensure that systems work correctly and safely with the NHS Care Records Service, NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CfH) operate a robust assurance regime known as the ‘Common Assurance Process’ – or CAP.
The sign off for this process known as DevMac (Development Milestone Achievement) was achieved by Esprit on the 5th December 2011.
Esprit launch the ‘ShareCare: Direct’ service
Esprit is pleased to announce the availability of the ShareCare: Direct Information Gateway.
ShareCare: Direct has been specifically designed to support the personalisation of Adult Social Care by:
- Enabling citizens to easily locate up to date information and advice;
- Empowering them to make independent decisions and choices about their own care needs
- Supporting them in managing their own care provision.
- Flexible information and advice hierarchy – delivering targeted, easy to maintain advice and assistance information;
- Comprehensive and extensible resource directory – supporting a local marketplace of service providers and services, with self submission and information management;
- Local ‘MyCare’ environment – enabling users to access their own assessments, support plans, demographics and other personal data securely;
- Self assessment support – providing a range of easy to construct, on screen feedback, calculation and data capture services;
- Interactive communication – with service user ratings and comments; social networking integration (Facebook, Twitter etc), forums and consultations.
- Service integration – supporting interactive discussion between service users and professionals and on demand data exchange with case management and other systems
- Secure access – enabling secure access to a users own assessments
ShareCare: Direct are currently working with the Cheshire East Council Partnership.
For more information on ShareCare: Direct or to register for a free demonstration please:
Call: 01332 412200
Email: info@esprit-is.com
Esprit release ShareCare: SEN version 3.5
Esprit has today released a comprehensive SEN solution that forms part of its ShareCare: Child suite of products.
Esprit realise that for most local authorities managing Special Educational Needs (SEN) assessments and reviews and maintaining an efficient service, is a time consuming and costly process.
ShareCare: SEN has been specifically designed to mitigate these issues. It is an easy to use, wholly web based solution, supporting comprehensive SEN case management functionality, while additionally delivering time and cost savings through a low cost software model.
ShareCare: SEN is available 24/7/365. It can be securely accessed over the Internet from any location e.g. office, home or school environment, and is specifically designed to support the full SEN business process: Referral, Assessment, Statement of Special Educational Need, Provision and subsequent monitoring through regular Progress Reviews and Management Reporting.
The SEN solution can support students at any age, or level of special educational need and can integrate with other elements of the ShareCare: Child product suite – e.g. e-CAF, ICS and Concern Tracking.
To request more information or to arrange a product demonstration at your convenience please contact:
01332 412200 or please click here
Esprit exhibiting at the Mobile Point of Care Conference 2010
Esprit will be exhibiting at the Mobile Point of Care Conference on Tuesday 23rd November 2010 at the British Medical Association in London.
If you are attending the event please come and visit the Esprit stand in the main conference hall.
For more information about the conference programme or to book your place at the event please visit: http://www.tracline.co.uk/conference/
Using Technology to Improve Society
Alan Allman, who has played a pivotal role in shaping the use of ShareCare: Adult in Cheshire, has contributed to a recent feature in The Guardian on “Smarter Cities”. The article surveys a number of pathfinding technology projects, examing in this case ”…how advances in new technology can be employed to improve health and social care, education and crime prevention….”
ShareCare provides platform for many of the changes that Alan refers to in his overview of Cheshires achievements to date and their vision of the future….
“…Over the past four years, the council has developed an electronic platform costing £800,000 so that elderly people no longer have a succession of home visits to arrange care.
Instead … their details can be taken once and shared with other agencies. The result: Cheshire East estimates it is saving 20% in staff time and costs delivering services.
Before this, any carer who visited an older person would have to fill out a paper form listing personal details and health needs. If another agency also visited, they had to go through the same process. Now, the ShareCare software application, developed by Esprit and hosted by IBM, means duplication is eliminated and staff have access to people’s records on the move…“
The full text of The Guardian article can be read here http://www.guardian.co.uk/smarter-cities/smarter-cities-new-technology-social-improvements
Esprit working with Local Authorities to bring Special Educational Needs support to ShareCare.
SHARECARE: CHILD TO SUPPORT COMPREHENSIVE ‘SEN’ SERVICE
Esprit is pleased to announce that development work is underway to deliver ‘Special Educational Needs’ (SEN) services through the ShareCare: Child system, enabling Local Authorities to modernise and streamline their SEN business processes.
The development programme will provide Local Authorities with a comprehensive web based management system that supports statutory assessments of special educational needs; enables statements of special educational needs to be reviewed and maintained more efficiently; and helps to reduce local service management costs.
For more information about Esprits plans for delivering SEN support tools, or to request a demonstration of ShareCare,
please email: info@esprit-is.com or call: 01332 412200.
Cheshire East roll-out Supported Self Assessment and Resource Allocation Summaries
Following a succesful pilot Cheshire East Council are now extending their ShareCare online ‘Community Care Assessment’ (CCA) and ‘Resource Allocation Summary’ (RAS) services to operate across the Council.
The new service is specifically designed to encourage ‘supported self assessment’ and to make care allowances simpler to calculate using an integrated Resource Allocation Summary (RAS).
Easily updated ‘Fair Access to Care’ (FAC’s) algorithms sit behind the local Community Care Assessment and automatically calculate (RAS) care allocations based on pounds per week and pounds per annum. There is also a clear breakdown of points attained across different assessment domains based on responses to questions.
The new Community Care Assessment (CCA) integrates with the local ShareCare Health and Social Care Partnership ‘Single Assessment’ formset to enable easy, onward transfer of information to support additional assessment and care-planning activities.
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