Electronic Medication Management

IT:informer believes that an understanding of the subject - Electronic Medication Management (EMM), is extremely important and needs as much shared industry dialogue as possible to ensure that the right environment is created for the adoption of EMM. We asked a couple of leading software vendors how they judge the industry’s view of the EMM.

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Wireless solutions improve efficiency of home care providers

While electronic systems hold the tantalizing promise of a paperless workplace, healthcare providers continue to fight old-fashioned paper blizzards and the problems that surround them. A desire to dig out from under just such a whiteout prompted the Greater Vancouver Community Service Society to seek a better way.

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Best Route Increases Capacity and Reduces Costs for Home Care Sector

Home care agencies typically have hundreds – even thousands – of nurses and workers on the road visiting clients. Driving back and forth on these visits is costly and time-consuming, but it must be done – after all, clients rely on home-care personnel for help.

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Community Centres Embrace New Care Information System

A new care information system is revolutionising the way Blue Care manages information for clients and residents.

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Community Care - Success with Mobility Solutions

Our ever-changing healthcare environment directly impacts how we deliver care. An aging population, an increasing number of patients with chronic conditions, and a shortage of skilled nurses all create challenges for home care organizations. It comes as no surprise that technology has an increasing role to play in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of care. Mobile or point of care solutions in particular are coming to the fore as they improve the flow of documentation and services provided by putting technology in the hands of home care workers

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Mobile solutions give nurses access to more information at the point of care

Visiting nurses, equipped with mobile computers and smart phones, provide more effective care. Procura has partnered with MedShare to eventually arm as many as 6,000 or more mobile homecare providers with either the BlackBerry cell phone or the MedShare eMotion tablet.

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Wireless solutions can improve productivity and quality in homecare

Wireless tablets and most recently multi-functional 'smartphones' like the BlackBerry are transforming homecare into a highly co-ordinated effort that leaves the visiting caregiver extra time for the family or to take on more work. Saskatchewan Health uses Procura to coordinate care and provide their homecare nurses with access to the software at the point of care.

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Nurse Next Door Named One of Top 10 Places To Work

While companies across the province struggle to attract great employees, Nurse Next Door, BC’s largest in-home senior care provider, was recognized as one of the province’s top 10 employers last night by BCBusiness Magazine’s annual Best Companies to Work For in BC award program. Ranking in the sixth spot, Nurse Next Door became the only healthcare organization to make the list

IT Makes a House Call

Providing three million home-care visits annually to clients in Ontario, Saint Elizabeth Health Care relies on IT innovation to help realize its vision of being a 'phenomenal knowledge and care exchange company.'  CIO Roy French gives CIO Canada readers an inside look at some of the organization's most vital IT initiatives.  Among these initiatives is the replacement of a homegrown application with Procura, which has facilitated consistency of data across the company. 

Success At The Point of Care

Point of Care technology complements care delivered, enhanced client-caregiver interactions, and provides organizational efficiencies throughout the care cycle. These tools will evolve as demands of the environment rise up to meet economic and environmental factors impacting how and what services are delivered.

Four State Agency Shrinks As It Grows

As it expanded from five branches in September 2003 to nine branches in four states by the fall of 2005, Advantage Nursing Services needed a software solution that was able to keep all administrative tasks - such as payroll, scheduling, billing and reporting - at its St. Louis headquarters, eliminating the need to duplicate functions at each location.

Paramed - Sustaining Quality of Care Through Technology

ParaMed Home Health Care is the home care division of Extendicare (Canada) Inc. and in the budgeting process for 2001, Ethel Lambert, British Columbia Regional Manager determined there was a need to find new ways to sustain the operation of ParaMed's home support business in British Columbia, in order to overcome the challenges of escalating costs.