Support the Unique Needs of Professional Field Staff and Paraprofessionals with Mobile Homecare Smartphone Technology

Using iPhone® and BlackBerry® smart phones, Horizon Homecare MobileCare™ delivers schedules, directions, and electronic medical records directly to field staff.

Part of our suite of home care software and mobile homecare delivery solutions, Horizon Homecare MobileCare solution simplifies routing and mileage documentation. The system displays precise turn-by-turn directions to each stop planned for the day. By using GPS mapping, it eases home care scheduling, by displaying the last known location of field staff. This enables your agency to accommodate new visits more efficiently and reduce calls to the scheduler.

The system gives professional field staff and paraprofessionals an accurate view of their daily schedule and summary of their mileage and time. Using our mobile homecare solutions, with home care scheduling management functionality and a map view of all visits, field staff can arrange their non-timed visits to reduce drive time and accommodate patient schedules.

Horizon Homecare MobileCare provides instant access to patients’ electronic medical records, including diagnosis, demographics, emergency contact information, details about environmental concerns and DNR information.

The system also provides functionality specific to your professional and paraprofessional staff members.

For Professionals
Horizon Homecare MobileCare mobile homecare solutions supports the unique needs of your professional field staff, including clinicians, clergy and therapists. The system allows professionals to arrange non-timed visits to meet the needs of the patient and improve efficiency. It facilitates clear communication of delegated tasks to paraprofessionals, offering peace of mind and security to the professionals responsible. With important contact information and one-click access to family, physician or pharmacy phone numbers, it lets professionals quickly confirm patient or prescription status. The system even allows the clinician to add non-visit-related stops, including lab drops and team meetings, for more accurate mileage documentation.

For Paraprofessionals
Current regulatory requirements and financial pressure demands accurate documentation by every member of the care team, including paraprofessionals. Horizon Homecare MobileCare mobile homecare solutions gives paraprofessionals — aides, LPNs/LVNs, PTAs, COTAs and volunteers, the ability to easily document against an ongoing, simple and task-based care plan. This documentation flows directly to the patient’s existing electronic record triggering alerts about uncompleted procedures and information about compliance with the care plan for improved coordination of care. It allows paraprofessional staff to document non-visit-related stops such as breaks, for more accurate time tracking. By automatically sending all of this information to the core system, Horizon Homecare, it improves communication, eliminates the need to produce and enter paper-based schedule information and reduces office visits for your paraprofessional staff.

Horizon Homecare MobileCare mobile homecare solutions offers you:

• Extensive integration with the care plan into the electronic medical record (EMR)
• Integration with Horizon Homecare™ scheduling
• Single point of support and maintenance
• Compatibility with ongoing releases of Horizon Homecare software without additional customization

Benefits

• Lets staff easily view schedules for the day and week
• Helps ensure no visits are missed by providing real-time notification of schedule changes to field staff
• Reduces staff mileage with accurate directions to each visit
• Eliminates the need to manually log, track and verify mileage
• Enhances care coordination by allowing paraprofessionals to document to the existing task-based care plan
• Reduces instances of survey deficiencies caused by discrepancies between the care plan and services the aide delivers
• Improves staff safety with accurate directions and advance notice of environmental concerns

Features

• Provides extensive patient information, including DNR’s, allergies and patient’s physician
• Alerts field staff in real-time of schedule changes
• Reduces staff mileage with accurate turn-by-turn directions to each visit or stop
• Automates staff tracking and late-arrival alerts
• Provides real-time updates of completed visit documentation, including vital signs, based on the task-based care plan
• Provides broadcast messaging functionality

For more information, call 800.800.5403 or contact McKesson