Agency Policy Binder.
An app idea for home care nursing.
A searchable phone version of state and agency policies for home care nurses, with a read receipt for the office.
What the search found
- Who pays
- Home care agency compliance officer
- The problem
- Nurses cannot find the policy they need during a visit. Guidance tells them to look in the employee handbook, the agency intranet or ask a supervisor, which does not work in a patient's living room.
- The gap
- The results show agency software for scheduling, charting and HIPAA messaging, and general clinical reference tools. None of them host the agency's own policies in a searchable phone format with read receipts.
- Already out there
- Carepatron carepatron.com
HIPAA compliant practice management for home nurses. Covers scheduling and documentation, not agency policy search.
- Dynamic Health guides.nyu.edu
Evidence based clinical reference tool. It is general clinical content, not the agency's own policy binder.
- Home Health Notify homehealthnotify.com
HIPAA compliant messaging platform for home care. Communication only, no policy library or read receipts.
- Carepatron carepatron.com
- People asking for it
- Navigating Home Health Policies and Procedures medbridge.com
Advises nurses to look in the employee handbook, the agency intranet, or ask a supervisor to find policies.
- Do you refer to hospital policy documents during your shifts? reddit.com
Nurses say they often refer to specific policies during shifts but the documents are hard to get to.
- New Home Health Nurse reddit.com
New nurse is told to find time to review the Medicare Benefits Policy Manual, a long document.
- Navigating Home Health Policies and Procedures medbridge.com
- The big assumption
- Compliance officers will pay for search and read receipts rather than keep a PDF on the shared drive.
- Test it this week
- Ask three agency compliance officers how they currently prove a nurse read a policy, and whether they would pay for read receipts on a phone.
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- Gap found
Supply Run Confirmation
A phone tool where a home care nurse photographs and logs supplies taken from the office, so the next nurse knows what is in the car.