Homecare Homebase software

Stay a way from it as much as u can!!!

Our company uses this software all day, every day. We could not provide the high level of care we do without a robust software like HCHB.

We are fairly new to the system - the key to success is to follow the HCHB processes as they are like a well oiled machine, and seriously consider changing agency process to work effectively within the system

They really need to higher RN's to help them improve the Language utilized, cut down double charting within the system, improve wound care charting which is completely and utterly useless as it stands. SOC with Allscripts 1hr... SOC with HCHB 3hrs minimum.

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easily used on tablets

Time waster with 1,000's of repeated questions. Why do I need to repeat my answer 3 different times? Coworkers hate it, patients hate it because I'm in their house twice as long, just documenting. Same pay, double the work.

It does not produce a clinically functional note to communicate what is actually happening with the patient. It takes a lot of effort to get into and out of notes. You cannot have more than one window open at a time, so you cannot review patient information while trying to write clinical or CTI notes. It goes down often.

The clinician, nurse or therapist will spend more time in the patients home documenting the hundreds of questions that are not all necessary. So a regular visit will be over an hour and if you have cars to perform such as wound vac, pic care, labs, IV, pill box, wound. Care, expect the additional time over the 45 min to hour documenting. A loss of money and you will work much more with no compensation. Additionally, my patients fall asleep during assessment and documentation, and I had to wake them 2 or 3 times during.

This Android based system forces users into the most check-box driven system in the Universe. The pro is that the system makes you jump through the hoops. The con is that the system makes you jump through hoops.

This is without a doubt the worst the home healthcare charting system ever madeyou will get the joy of dealing with continuous updates that do not improve the basic flaws in the system you do not chart against the goals you actually write in with you cannot attach photos to a visit so that you can see your wound there are no codes for UAVs there is no section for urine test and you have to write that The vital signs are not friended this system absolutely sucks

It is extremely tedious and redundant. It is making a great job miserable. It is like entering the black hole of charting. It feels never ending. It is probably good for those in the back office but horrible for clinicians in the field.

The tablet is very difficult to work on , and whoever designed this program has no I repeat no healthcare experience .Why would you design a program/use a tablet that does not have enough memory for you to view all branch patients ? Imagine being the on call nurse getting the 5 am call about a pt in trouble and getting to tell the pt " I have to call a number get you put on my device so I can get a good picture of what's been going on with you,where you live , meds you take etc...And it's lovely when you get a new tablet and the predictive text changes what you put in and you get to spend even more time charting! Note to all medical software designers charting should be the easiest part of a healthcare workers job , we are there to make people better, not battle with a horrible program and tablet. It's also a pain to see another persons patient as this program does not "look back" at previous visits like all scripts did , but the wound tool maybe the stupidest part of it all what and experienced nurse could say in one sentence requires opening a special tab entering data in several fields but hey don't worry the person following behind you can't see what you have done unless the hunt for it. I think medicare is going to nail agencies when it sees multiple repetitive goals/interventions are charted on inconsistently

The good thing about this program... Well it does have drug instruction. It appears the designer had never ever worked in home health . There is repetitive charting required as goals/ interventions are automatically added it is unreasonable to have 50 goals on a six visit admit but the clinican has no control over it , you Have to constantly open tabs poorly designed program thanks for adding a million visit codes which now get to be plotted by admitting clinical staff this program has made an already hard job even harder ! The auromatic milage calculator is wrong when doing miles document storage is not user friendly and the tablet is hard to use