Great Lakes Caring implemented Homecare Homebase™, an industry-leading electronic medical record system, in place of a traditional pencil-and-paper method of maintaining vital patient data. The new system will allow the nurses, who travel across the Great Lakes Caring service area to care for each patient, to instantly access, update and make changes to a patient’s medical records and plans of care via a mobile device.
“Our nurses and care providers spend most of their time outside our office caring for patients, which makes updating medical records in-office quite cumbersome for many home health companies,” says William Deary, CEO of Great Lakes Caring. “With the innovative Homecare Homebase™ electronic medical record system paired with mobile devices, our staff will always have the most up-to-date patient data in the palm of their hands, and will be able to update vital information regarding the patient from anywhere in our service area.”
Homecare Homebase™ automates the flow of information at Great Lakes Caring by collecting patient information in a central database that can then be connected to by care providers, care directors, physicians and the billing department. Physicians can be instantly updated of their patient’s progress, allowing them to communicate with Great Lakes Caring care providers and mandate changes to a patient’s plan of care; and the billing department has up-to-date patient records of all services provided, assuring accurate billing.
It is innovations like Homecare Homebase™ and mobile device-use that keeps Great Lakes Caring at the top in terms of health care quality and excellence.
