Horizon Hospice™, a comprehensive hospice software solution, follows a unique concept of care in which many different disciplines, working together, support not only the patient, but also family and friends surrounding the patient. The goal of hospice is to provide palliative physical and spiritual care for the patient, and to support the emotional needs of the patient's family. This creates unique information technology and documentation requirements for hospice providers. The providers must have hospice software that accommodates their particular office and clinical needs and provides advanced tracking and reporting capabilities.

McKesson's Horizon Hospice software solution, a KLAS category leader in the Hospice software market segment for the past six consecutive years*, provides the strength of a proven product and meets the specific needs of hospice providers including clinical documentation, specialized billing, patient education, and tools to track agency personnel and costs.

A home health care agency that strengthens its bond with physicians will benefit from improved patient care, timely communication with physicians and increased physician satisfaction. To achieve these goals, an agency must extend the patient's chart and home care documentation to the physician's desktop.

Benefits

• Reduces guesswork on the part of intake personnel by displaying only referrals and organizational information pertinent to the individual
• Allows intake personnel, even those new to the hospice software system, to enter a referral after only a 15-minute demonstration
• Helps ensure care coordination via an interactive Interdisciplinary (IDT) conference report, which fully supports documentation of conference discussions, discoveries and follow-up activities
• Helps the organization track patient status and events that occur between shifts via a call report
• Manages volunteers efficiently by simplifying volunteer tracking and scheduling
• Improves the accuracy of hospice cost accounting by providing information about the cost of products and services on an as-needed basis per patient

Features

• User-specific vantage point view of pending referrals with icons indicate how much information is left to enter for each referral
• Electronic referral form targets certified hospice referral capture and requires minimal information be completed to save the referral
• Supports interactive documentation of conference attendees, discussions, discoveries and follow-up activities during the meeting
• Confirms changes and updates with electronic signature capture to lock the report upon completion of the meeting
• Collects cost information at the visit level
• Creates reports to provide detailed and summary level-statistics for all admissions, enabling more accurate tracking of census
• Supports cost analysis for Medicare hospice election and revocation dates, hospice benefit periods and level of care changes for more effective financial management

For more information, call 800.800.5403 or contact McKesson

*Source: 2004-2010 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Professional Services report. © 2010 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. www.KLASresearch.com. All rights reserved. KLAS Enterprises, Inc. is a healthcare industry group that compiles customer feedback to determine the industry’s best systems and vendors.