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General

CareScreen delivers significant value to healthcare organizations by:
  • Enhancing preventive care capabilities: Enables primary care physicians to perform specialist-level screenings—starting with diabetic retinopathy—during routine visits, improving early disease detection.
  • Reducing referrals and delays: Provides remote specialist review within the primary care setting, cutting down the need for separate specialist appointments and speeding up diagnosis and treatment.
  • Lowering overall healthcare costs: Early identification and management of conditions help avoid expensive emergency care and advanced-stage treatments.
  • Improving patient outcomes: Proactive screening and timely intervention lead to better management of chronic diseases and reduced complications.
  • Increasing patient satisfaction and retention: Offering advanced, convenient screenings in familiar settings enhances the patient experience.
  • Streamlining workflows: Integrates smoothly with existing clinical processes, minimizing disruption for providers and staff.
Together, these benefits strengthen organizational care quality, operational efficiency, and financial sustainability.


CareScreen by FabrixMed is a preventative care platform designed to help primary care providers, health systems, and payers close care gaps and improve population health outcomes. Unlike single-purpose screening tools, CareScreen functions as a connected ecosystem that integrates multiple preventative screenings, specialist reviews, and ECDS-ready reporting into one seamless workflow.

CareScreen allows PCPs to perform screenings—like diabetic retinal exams or cardiovascular assessments—directly in the office during routine visits. Results are reviewed asynchronously by specialists, and structured data is sent back into the EHR and payer systems in formats that count toward Star Ratings, HEDIS measures, and other value-based performance metrics.

In short, CareScreen helps healthcare organizations move from reactive care to proactive prevention—delivering better outcomes, higher quality scores, and more efficient workflows without adding complexity for providers.

CareScreen vs Alternatives

Autonomous AI tools can flag possible disease from a retinal image, but they usually stop at the algorithm output. Primary care buyers typically still need:

  • A workflow that fits the visit — capture during the appointment, not a separate tool
  • Licensed eye-specialist interpretation when payers or protocols require a clinical read
  • Structured reports that support HEDIS Diabetes Eye Exam (EED), Medicare Star, and ECDS-ready quality reporting
  • Multi-site deployment — pooled credits, add-on site licenses, optional camera lease

CareScreen by FabrixMed is built for that full clinic workflow: in-office non-mydriatic imaging, secure routing, specialist review, and reportable documentation — not image classification alone.



Point solutions often solve one step — camera, AI, or reading — but leave the clinic to stitch together workflow, billing, quality reporting, and multi-site operations.

CareScreen is designed for easier adoption across primary care sites:

  • Standard Software — $300/month (12 screening credits, one site license) for clinics with existing cameras
  • Enhanced Software — $500/month (20 credits, one site license) for higher volume
  • Complete Bundle — $700/month ($300 software + $400/month camera lease) when hardware is needed
  • $25 per additional screening credit; $100/month per additional site
  • 90-day credit rollover on unused prepaid credits — credits pool across licensed sites
  • Fixed subscription fees — not a percentage of your clinical reimbursement


For primary care and multi-site groups, the business case is operational and quality-driven:

  • Close care gaps in the visit: Complete diabetic eye exams during routine diabetes appointments instead of relying on separate ophthalmology follow-through
  • Move quality measures: Documented screenings support HEDIS EED and Medicare Star performance
  • Support value-based contracts: Structured, reportable completion data for payer and ACO quality programs
  • Capture appropriate screening revenue: Bill in-clinic where payer rules allow (e.g., CPT 92227/92228)
  • Predictable platform cost: Published subscriptions from $300–$700/month plus per-credit overage — not a rev-share on clinical fees

CareScreen is a platform by FabrixMed Inc — workflow, specialist routing, and reporting infrastructure; your clinic retains control of orders, billing, and follow-up.



CareScreen is typically the better fit when the buyer is evaluating clinic deployment, not just model accuracy on a benchmark dataset.

Choose CareScreen when you need:

  • Staff workflow and training for in-office capture during primary care visits
  • Licensed ophthalmologist or optometrist interpretation with structured clinical reports
  • Quality-program documentation — HEDIS, Star, ECDS-ready structured data
  • Multi-site rollout — pooled credits, $100/month add-on sites, optional $400/month camera lease via Complete Bundle
  • Predictable pricing and a 90-day pilot opt-out on bundled plans (terms apply)

AI-only vendors may win on algorithm demos alone. CareScreen wins when the decision includes staffing, specialist review, payer reporting, and day-to-day clinic operations.



Yes — for raw screening throughput, AI is usually faster and lower marginal cost than having a human eye specialist read every image. But throughput is not the same as a complete primary care workflow.

When immediacy at the point of care matters: CareScreen can provide an AI-assisted, risk-based assessment so staff and clinicians get a same-visit signal while the patient is still in clinic.

When reliability and downstream cost matter: CareScreen routes images to licensed eye specialists (board-certified ophthalmologists or optometrists) for asynchronous interpretation. That approach reduces false-positive noise, unnecessary urgent referrals, and follow-up burden — costs that pure AI-only screening can create when sensitivity is tuned aggressively.

Practical summary for buyers:

  • Want a fast first-pass result during the visit → AI-assisted triage can help
  • Want a defensible clinical read and quality documentation → specialist interpretation and structured reporting
  • Want both → CareScreen supports a workflow-first model: capture in primary care, AI where it adds speed, specialist reads where clinical interpretation and reporting matter

FabrixMed provides the CareScreen technology platform and workflow; independent specialists perform clinical interpretation. Your clinic remains the treating provider.



CareScreen Platform

CareScreen is FabrixMed's preventative screening platform for primary care. It supports a four-step loop:

  1. Identify gaps — overdue screenings surfaced from the EHR or eligibility feed.
  2. Capture in-clinic — devices and questionnaires completed during the PCP visit.
  3. Async review — specialist interpretation within CareScreen when the screening pack requires it.
  4. Return to EMR — structured results and referral recommendations to the PCP chart.

CareScreen is designed to close gaps in the visit, not to route patients to a separate telehealth product.



CareScreen helps primary care teams complete measure-eligible screenings during the visit and produce audit-ready documentation for quality reporting.

  • In-clinic capture tied to the patient encounter (not a lost external referral).
  • Structured results and severity grading returned to the PCP EMR.
  • Program packs (e.g., diabetic retinopathy, mental health, cardiovascular risk) aligned to common gap-closure workflows.

Specific measure mapping depends on your payer contracts and screening program — contact FabrixMed for your site's measure set.



Yes. CareScreen is built for primary care at the point of care, including rural health clinics, FQHCs, and hospital-owned outpatient groups where patients cannot easily travel for specialty-only workflows.

  • Portable, in-office device capture (camera-agnostic where applicable).
  • Asynchronous specialist review — no live video visit required for interpretation packs.
  • Multi-site credit pooling and site licensing for distributed groups.

Specialist coverage spans all 50 US states for supported async review programs.



When a screening pack requires specialist interpretation, images and structured intake are routed through CareScreen's async review queue — not a separate telehealth referral product.

  • PCP staff completes capture during the visit; the patient typically leaves the same day.
  • Licensed specialists review asynchronously within published SLAs (program-specific).
  • Refer-or-monitor recommendations and structured reports return to the PCP EMR.

Example: in-office diabetic retinopathy screening with specialist read within a 12 working-hour SLA.



CareScreen closes the loop by delivering structured screening results and referral recommendations back to the primary care workflow:

  • Encounter-linked documentation suitable for quality measure attestation.
  • Severity grading and next-step guidance (refer vs. monitor) where the program supports it.
  • Integration paths vary by EMR — FabrixMed supports common export and interface patterns for primary care groups.

Contact FabrixMed for EMR-specific integration details for your organization.