To Administration:

There is no fair listing of the benefits that a home health agency can gain from the use of HomeCare Interactive™. The following points are from the personal experience of a home health agency:

• Improves quality of care.
• Increases clinical enjoyment and fulfillment in practicing home care while providing a natural flow of accountability and responsibility without sacrificing staff satisfaction.
• Reduces burnout and staff turn over and counteracts the impact of nursing shortage.
• Provides naturally enforced, yet significant continuity of care and communication.
• Reduces overhead expenses.
• Increases the agency's bottom line.
• Enforces compliance with federal and state rules and regulations.
• Improves documentation and enforces best practices.
• Eliminates personnel errors.
• Low maintenance of database through use of Single Source Database, requiring no human interference.
• All functions are 100 percent integrated.
• Eliminates unnecessary, repetitive tasks.
• Reduces payroll expenses.
• Provides confidence and peace of mind to agency staff.
• Increases office and field staff productivity.
• Eliminates conflict and reduces stress.
• Provides a high-tech, integrated telemonitoring system at a fraction of the market price.
• Enforces HIPAA compliance by keeping patient information within the agency without compromising or sharing information with several technology providers.
• Distinguishes an agency among its staff and the medical community.

To Patients:

• Patients are connected at all times to their agency and physicians.
• Reduces hospitalization and ER visits.
• Provides peace of mind.
• Increases patient compliance.
• Increases participation of patients in their own care.
• Increases patients' knowledge about their illness.
• Promotes improved and faster healing.

To Field Staff:

• Increases workload.
• Decreases burn out.
• Increases acceptance of assignments by contract employees.
• Makes staff more comfortable and competent in handling cases.
• Keeps staff members informed up to the minute about their schedule and their patients.
• Increases job enjoyment and satisfaction.
• Guides staff in their documentation and assessment process.
• Reduces assessment time and time for plan of care structuring.
• Allows staff members involved in the case to view assessments and notes immediately as they are being completed.
• Reduces driving time and daily expenses to agency.

To Physicians:

• Allows physicians to write and sign all orders immediately, directly from their own desk-- anywhere anytime.
• Provides physicians with internal calculator to keep up with their own oversight time.
• Gives physicians immediate information about patients when needed, so that intervention can occur quickly.
• Keeps track of all physician appointments for patients.
• Physicians have the opportunity to read daily assessments, interventions and responses of their patients.
• Allows physicians to have audio video interaction with patients and or agency staff.
• The only application that allows a physician to hear lung and heart sounds on patient notes.
• Allows physicians to make referrals directly from their own desktop, 24 hours a day.
• Keeps physicians satisfied with the care provided by the agency.
• Increases physicians' reliance and belief in home care and its abilities