Microcomputer software needs for home care services: similarities to and differences between hospital inpatient...

A home care computer system and database manager designed specifically for the needs of home care are needed in a time when documentation requirements are many and qualified personnel are few. Home care software allows these clinicians to provide consistent data, minimize mathematical errors, handle the complex reimbursement system, and maximize the efficiency of the organization's professional, administrative, and clerical staff. Good quality patient care and time management are critical to providing high quality, cost-effective, parenteral therapy home care in the 1990s. This system and the user training program are designed to accommodate both the experienced home care provider and the novice, inexperienced provider. The Specialized Clinician also carries out reimbursement, thus eliminating the major cause of failure of inexperienced start-up home infusion care programs.