Home healthcare is the fastest growing sector of the healthcare industry, and not only because seniors and people with disabilities prefer to live at home. Reduced hospital stays and an increase in ambulatory care and outpatient procedures have increased client rosters, leading to massive increases in mandated visit reports that must be completed and processed. Our unique clinical documentation system, created in collaboration with home health agencies, reduces back-office responsibilities and costs and streamlines workflow.
Home healthcare clinicians and personal care assistants provide life-sustaining services to home-bound patients and the elderly, but they must spend part of every visit collecting information on patient health and progress. Reducing the time spent on completing paperwork on-site allows more time for interaction with patients - time that means so much. Completing, managing, transporting, and delivering paper files not only takes time, but means accepting the inevitability of incomplete, delayed, lost, and unsecured records.
Pocket Home Care is the portable, secure solution that eliminates cumbersome notebooks and clipboards, ensures complete visit records, and provides the clinician or care assistant with the specific report form required for the day's visit to a specific client, including the ability to capture or refer to a photo of the client to ensure identification. The application can also accept a patient signature and validate the report for completeness before submission. Once the report is uploaded to the agency, there is nothing to carry, deliver, or file away - just a convenient, unobtrusive mobile device. Reports are automatically removed from the device after acknowledged receipt by the agency.
Homecare staff access scheduled visits and assessment forms downloaded to Pocket Home Care on a mobile device that offers wireless wide-area networking on the GPRS or CDMA network, such as the Sprint® PPC-6700, or other device with a built-in camera. Reports are stored and forwarded automatically via available wireless connection or manually via an Ethernet or modem connection.
Once received by the agency, visit records do not have to be transcribed before in-house validation and filing with insurance providers and government agencies, eliminating errors and shortening the billing cycle. Our Mobility Base Station™ tags data to permit separating OASIS and agency data for internal reports and state submission. The Pocket Home Care Administrator™ desktop application controls a visits database and monitors visit status, downloads visit-specific forms and updates to mobile handhelds, and manages staff and client data. The built-in form designer software eliminates printing costs and storage issues and revised forms automatically download to mobile devices.
Agencies striving to provide an expanding client base with the utmost in quality care need to automate operations and help in-house and mobile staff make the most of their time. The Pocket Home Care system can streamline workflow at the agency and on the road, strengthening the lifeline provided by caregivers to their home-bound clients.
For more information or to arrange a demonstration of the Pocket Home Care mobile application, contact our sales department.