1. Home Healthcare Management
  2. Who it's for
  3. Home care with specialty services
Who it's for

Home care with specialty services

Some home care visits include specimen collection or a medication dispensation. Those details need the same patient and encounter context as the note and observations. A specimen records its type, collection date, accession number and processing status. A dispensation records medication, lot, quantity, unit and authorizing person.

How Home Healthcare Management is set up for you

Specimen handoff

Use the accession number and processing state to follow a collected item through receipt or a rejected outcome.

Medication detail

Keep the lot and quantity with the authorizing person for the encounter.

Clinical review

Read specialty records beside the visit note and measurements.

External results

Plan laboratory or pharmacy connections around the encounter and accession or lot references when those systems participate.

Some home care visits include specimen collection or a medication dispensation. Those details need the same patient and encounter context as the note and observations. A specimen records its type, collection date, accession number and processing status. A dispensation records medication, lot, quantity, unit and authorizing person.

Choose a visit type where a specimen or dispensation commonly occurs. Schedule a sample encounter, record the patient and clinician, and add the specialty item while the visit is in progress. Check that the item points to the encounter, then read it as a reviewer. Test an item still in process and another with a rejected specimen status so the team agrees how each should be handled.

Before expanding use, decide how accession numbers are assigned and when receipt is recorded. Agree how medication units are entered and how the authorizing person is selected. These choices make the records easier to compare with the external laboratory or pharmacy system if one is connected.

Features to start with

Roles on the team

Clinical Reviewer
Reviews evidence and authorizes eligible domain outcomes. Read only across all care-domain tables.
Licensed Clinician
Captures assigned care operations work and evidence.

Set up Home Healthcare Management your way.

Start free, then use Proto to change fields, steps and approvals before your team goes live.

How to get started