When recovering from a hospitalization or managing a chronic condition, there’s no place quite like home. As hospitals continue to adopt innovative payment models, home care will become increasingly popular and important in delivering quality healthcare.
Home care is all about supporting patients and their families. That takes careful orchestration from the healthcare team. Therapists, nurses and nurse assistants work around the clock to support the patient’s care plan under a doctor’s supervision.
Compassionate care requires great coordination. The ability to collaborate securely between hospitals, providers and skilled nursing facilities using mobile solutions is critical to healthcare professionals and their patients.
Treating patients at home has added benefits: it helps reduce readmissions, prevents expensive ER visits and, perhaps most importantly, enables timely hospital admission as a patient’s clinical status changes. The healthcare industry knows this, and has created many value-based payment models that will require more and more coordination as care shifts to the home.
These trends call for methods that make it easy and quick to exchange information across the care team, catalog information by patient and find information fast.
Email, phone calls and faxes can no longer support these changing needs, and they were never built with HIPAA in mind. This has given rise to a family of solutions called clinical communication and collaboration (CC&C). These tools are bridging the gap between the growing demands of home health and current practice.
About Buzz
Skyscape’s Buzz is one such solution in the CC&C space. Buzz is a HIPAA-secure platform that simplifies real-time, on-the-go communication between healthcare providers within and outside an institution. The app is sleek, easy to use, and supports texting, dictation, private calling and file sharing, all synchronized across devices.