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Enabling Hospice Agencies to Focus on Providing Personalized Care

Enabling Hospice Agencies to Focus on Providing Personalized Care

Enabling Hospice Agencies to Focus on Providing Personalized Care

Product catalog summary

Overview

Cerner Corporation provides software solutions, HomeWorks and RoadNotes, to enhance personalized care in hospice agencies. These solutions support clinical, financial, administrative, and management functions, enabling agencies to focus on quality care.

Key Features

  • HomeWorks: A fully integrated system managing the entire patient care lifecycle, from intake to record retention. It includes features like on-screen prompts and links to ensure consistent documentation and compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • RoadNotes: A point-of-care solution allowing clinical staff to access and document patient electronic medical records (EMRs) during visits, synchronizing with HomeWorks.

Ease of Use

The solutions offer intuitive workflows and customizable forms, reducing training time and enabling paperless EMR management. Clinical staff can attach digital media to EMRs, streamlining documentation.

Support for Hospice Inpatient Units

Features include census management for quick bed scheduling and a Medication Administration Record (MAR) for documenting medication administration.

Key Benefits

  • Supports hospice care at home, inpatient, and palliative care.
  • Facilitates patient transitions with a single admission process.
  • Recognized for remote hosting excellence.

Bereavement Support

Tools for scheduling and delivering bereavement services, documenting visits, and assessing bereaved clients' needs.

Financial Management

HomeWorks includes revenue cycle capabilities for billing and accounts receivable, handling Medicare and Medicaid billing efficiently.

Interoperability

Enables data exchange between clinical systems, supporting seamless patient transitions and efficient communication with pharmacies and vendors.

Operational Efficiency

  • HIPAA-compliant messaging and scheduling features enhance care coordination.
  • Customizable reporting and easy retrieval of archived patient records.

Conclusion

Cerner's solutions aim to transform healthcare delivery by digitizing processes and supporting evidence-based clinical decisions, ultimately improving patient care and operational efficiency.

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Catalog excerpts

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“We rely on the Cerner integrated medical record and excellent Cerner support team to allow Hospice of the Valley to exceed the expectations of our patients, families, bereaved clients, physicians and many community supporters.” Barbara Volk-Craft, PhD, RN Program Development Director Hospice of the Valley Enabling Hospice Agencies to Focus on Providing Personalized Care HomeWorks and RoadNotes for Hospice Care Cerner is focused on helping loved ones and their families receive quality care, comfort and compassion during the time they need it most. That is why Cerner delivers software solutions that enable hospice agencies to focus on providing personalized care. Hospice agencies of all sizes use Cerner’s HomeWorks® and RoadNotes® solutions to improve patient care. HomeWorks is a fully integrated system designed to support the clinical, financial, administrative and management functions of hospice agencies. RoadNotes, its point of care counterpart, allows clinical staff to review patient electronic medical records (EMRs) and provide documentation during patient visits. The data entered into RoadNotes synchronizes with the HomeWorks system. The solutions provide the tools needed to manage the entire life-cycle of patient care, from intake to retention of archived records. Features like on-screen prompts, links and warnings promote consistency in documentation, reduce errors, simplify the documentation process and support regulatory requirements for reporting. Care plans are incorporated into the system. Ease of Use for Clinical Staff Intuitive, custom workflows provide a step-by-step guide through the clinical chart during patient encounters. Forms can be created to match agency documents, reducing training time. The entire life-cycle of patient care can be managed with a completely paperless EMR, eliminating time spent on documentation post-visit. Consistent clinical documentation can be achieved through the streamlined data entry process. With a digital media archive, clinical staff can attach wound images, scanned documents and other images to the patient’s EMR. Supports Hospice Inpatient Supports hospice care in the home, hospice inpatient and palliative care Intuitive workflows provide a step-by-step guide through the clinical chart Ease of patient transitions with one admission between levels of care Best in KLAS remote hosting in 2012, fourth consecutive year management feature. A graphic representation of facilities’ floors, rooms and beds can be displayed. The administration of medications to patients can be documented using the Medication Administration Record (MAR). The solutions are designed to support the functions of a hospice inpatient unit. Quick scheduling of patients’ beds can be achieved using the census Cerner Corporation / 2800 Rockcreek Parkway / Kansas City, MO 64117 / 866.221.8877 / cerner.com

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Bereavement Support Easily schedule and deliver bereavement services to bereaved clients, document bereavement visits, coordinate follow-up bereavement contacts, and perform a risk assessment of the bereaved client’s needs. Maximize Reimbursement HomeWorks has built-in revenue cycle capabilities to handle billing and accounts receivable from the referral call through the final service payment. The billing function easily handles Medicare hospice and Medicaid, including room and board billing with patient liability tracking. Accurately generate bills, validate data, and transmit in electronic...

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