Services & Features
CAMS features include:
- Requires only the most basic computer literacy level
- Accessible from multiple worksites simultaneously
- Meets all legal requirements for security and privacy protection
- Accommodates a wide range of programs and services
- Minimizes the duplication of data entry
- A simple web browser interface makes it easy for users to search for, find and view the required data
- All data backed up and stored in Canada
- 100% owned and located in British Columbia
- Training, support, and help-desk services are provided
- Capacity to scan for completeness of files
- Allows agencies to control access to file through a variety of user levels
Design Principles
- Data entered is owned by the agency. The code is owned by BJPCAMS
- CAMS is designed to encourage strengths-based practice
- CAMS limits data input to information that can be used to improve quality of service to the people served, and avoids collecting information that is superfluous
- CAMS is designed to provide evidence of credible data.
- CAMS’s support team works with each agency to meet its individual needs and to gain the maximum benefit from using CAMS
- CAMS pricing considers the financial constraints of the non-profit social services sector and of each participating agency
- CAMS is designed to provide optimal reporting levels for agencies; neither so many reports that they are redundant, nor so few that they fail to meet reporting needs
Benefits
CAMS is a cloud service designed specifically for community service agencies. The wealth of data it provides improves performance, good practice, and research. CAMS benefits include:
- Tracks waitlists, program participation, outcomes, and milestones
- Increases the ability to manage cases and plan the work with each person served
- Supports clinical supervision and management oversight
- Supports reporting to funders, stakeholders, and accreditors
- Produces a variety of reports including annual statistics, incident summaries and service summaries
- Enhances ability to track time spent on each case
- Supports compliance with Commission on Accreditation and Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) and Council on Accreditation (COA) standards
- Improves performance, good practice, and research