HCR's Nursing Team Moves Forward with State of the Science Home Care Technology!
posted on February 3, 2012
Sue Bourne, RN, MSN - Directory of Specialty Programs
Today we are excited to announce the start of a new image-sharing process that we are piloting with three nurses (and hope to roll out to the rest of our nurses soon).
Formerly, the image-sharing process involved taking a digital camera to the client’s home (of which we only had four or five to share amongst all our field clinicians). Our nurses would then have to return the camera to the office so that a clinical support staff member could upload the pictures than either print or attempt to email to our wound care nurses or physician offices. What a hassle!
While in the field, nurses can use their Android device (that they use for documentation), to take pictures and then they can automatically send the picture on their device through HCR secured email to the wound care nurse team – essentially in one step! Now, our clinicians will be able take and share these images in real time. We have developed a protocol to provide guidance to you to ensure HIPAA compliance.
The WOCNs then attach the wound picture to the patient record and can print the picture as needed. We can also forward these images on to the client’s physicians just as securely and easily. Amazing! Physicians will get faster and more accurate updates on their patients and overall quality of care can be provided.
We are very thrilled to be able to use the latest technology to move our quality care and superior service to the next level of home care services. We look forward to what new advances still await us!
