Louisiana CAREWare Access Network (LaCAN)
The Louisiana CAREWare Access Network (LaCAN) is a collaborative effort between four Ryan White grantees in Louisiana to improve the information technology capacity to collect and report client-level data to the HIV/AIDS Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HHS. The LaCAN partners include:
These partners are using CAREWare as a central repository of client data and have agreed to exchange service information for the purpose of improving client care, data quality, and performance measurement.
About CAREWare
CAREWare is free, scalable software for managing and monitoring HIV clinical and supportive care and will quickly produce a completed Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Annual Data Report (RDR) and the new Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services Report (RSR) for meeting reporting requirements to the federal grantee, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau (DHHS, HRSA, HAB). CAREWare was developed by jProg in New Orleans, Louisiana. Their website is: http://www.jprog.org.
LaCAN uses CAREWare 5.0 in a centralized, ‘real-time’ configuration. Users only need to have the “client tier” or user interface installed on their local computer. By logging into the user interface, the client tier will connect to the “business tier” which holds all the rules for who can access what data, where to store data once it is entered into CW and other key activities. The business tier stores the data in a database; both the business tier and the database are stored on a server at SHP.
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