All homecare and hospice visits must be documented carefully, regardless of which discipline performs the visit. Automating the home care documentation process is the most effective way for the home care agency to accomplish this task.

With Horizon Homecare Telephony™, field staff of any discipline can use a touch-tone telephone to enter visit information directly into the Horizon Homecare™ database. Task codes entered into the system using Telephony are documented as service order and visit notes. Telephony gives field staff the ability to enter non-billable items including supplies, time and travel into the home health software system. Because Horizon Homecare is a completely integrated system, all visits marked as “complete” using Telephony go directly to batch processing for billing in the home health care software. The system’s unique text-to-speech capability also gives field staff access to useful patient information—for example directions to the patient’s home.

Portions of Horizon Homecare Telephony are licensed by Sandata Technologies, Inc. under U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,255,183 and 5,646,839 and 5,963,912.

Benefits

• Reduces manual home care documentation
• Improves patient care monitoring
• Streamlines the billing process
• Improves communication between field staff and the office
• Provides an agency with real-time access to important patient information

Features

• Automated visit documentation
• Electronic care plan documentation
• Automated variance tracking
• Electronic vital sign documentation