— Fastrack Healthcare Systems, Inc. found that its customers were having a hard time deciding between hosted and installed software configurations. The HME, Home IV and home care software vendor developed a clever solution.
The Hospice of Baton Rouge has been meeting the end-of-life care needs of the Greater Baton Rouge Metropolitan area since 1984. As the only non-profit, United Way, Medicare & Medicaid certified hospice provider in this area, the Hospice of Baton Rouge provides care to anyone, regardless of financial resources.
Services are provided in the patient’s home, assisted living facilities, nursing homes and group homes by an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals and trained volunteers. The Hospice of Baton Rouge recently selected CellTrak to improve information sharing and documentation at the point of care. Since implementation, the hospice has noted:
- reduced payroll paper documentation
- elimination of manual time and mileage calculation
- daily and weekly visit reports that are easy for the staff to understand
- an ability to track and find team members by monitoring live reports of visit checkin and checkout times, thus enabling the office to find the nearest staff member if there is an unexpected visit or new admit
- accurate tracking mileage via GPS
- patient visit durations are displayed in reports
- they can send instant messages to all staff
Rev. Amy Ziettlow, COO, has calculated that the CellTrak system has reduced payroll processing time by two full days and reduced mileage costs by over $8000 in the first two months. “CellTrak enables us to be better stewards of our community’s dollars while freeing us to spend more time providing quality care to patients and caregivers.”
Hospice of Baton Rouge is a nonprofit, community based hospice provider offering professional medical care, social, spiritual and grief support to patients with life-limiting illnesses. Established in 1984, HBR is the second oldest hospice in Louisiana and has served over 12,000 patients. Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance cover the cost of hospice care for most patients, but it is also the policy of Hospice of Baton Rouge to serve all who qualify for hospice care, regardless of the ability to pay. www.hospicebr.org or www.seriousillness.org/batonrouge
A New Twist On Convert to Purchase.
Plainview, NY — Fastrack Healthcare Systems, Inc. announced today a new incentive for provider’s to convert to their Internet based Hosting Solution for HME, Respiratory, Home Infusion Pharmacies and Home Healthcare Agencies.
According to Spencer Kay, President of Fastrack, “We are finding many providers torn between deciding on having the software vendor host the software or running it in-house on their own servers. There are pros and cons to both methods and since Fastrack offers both, we can offer an objective opinion. To help providers in making the decision we introduced our new ‘Convert to Purchase’ program.”
The Fastrack Convert to Purchase program allows a provider to start out on the Fastrack Hosted Solution which offers integrated billing, operational & clinical software. At anytime they can bring the system in-house if they find that method meets their needs better. If the client decides to purchase the software license to run on their own server they will receive a substantial discount on the purchase price, in effect receiving partial credit for the monthly hosting fees already paid.
Kay went on to add, “Hosting offers the benefit of a small upfront fee, low monthly payments and Fastrack performing IT functions including installing upgrades, server maintenance and daily back-ups. On the other hand, owning the software license provides more control, ease in interfacing to third party products, potential to take advantage of accelerated depreciation under Section 179 of the IRS Tax Code and should add to the value of the business if the provider decides to sell the business.”
Fastrack provides software and technology to Home Medical Equipment, Durable Medical Equipment, Respiratory Providers, Home Infusion Pharmacies and Home Health Care Agencies, supporting clinical, operational and financial needs for providers offering several or all of these business lines, within one integrated Microsoft SQL database.
