Tell me about your homecare laptops

hospicenurse · Oct 24, 2004

I just spent a week training to implement MYSIS in our HHC/Hospice agency. Unfortunately, our corp. will not be using point of care- they won't invest in laptops. Used Pathways in the past on laptop and liked it (the corp who bought us actually trashed our laptops and put us back on paper :angryfire ). I think MYSIS has a better windows layout than the old Pathways - it's easier to find things. And our geeks built us templates to use. For example, there is a referral template which pulls up tabs for everthing you need to enter for a referral. Same for admissions. But OASIS is a total drag no matter how you have to do it - I am so very glad that I am clinically in hospice and don't have that bear to deal with! The weakest part of MYSIS, imo, is building the 485 - specifically "Problems" - the goals and interventions. It might just be how our corp has it set up. It is being tweaked right now and may be easier once we have what we need in place to choose from. Another big issue is that the entire system is date driven - and it defaults to todays date on everything! Every med that goes in, every order, charge etc. Fine if you are doing point of care. Not fine for the people putting in charges, etc. And especially problematic when you are initially transferring all your patients, staff, etc over into the system. For example, when you enter an MD as a resource, his date must reflect the very earliest pt admission date, or it won't generate a 485.

We start training our data entry and billing staff tommorrow - I'm sure I can tell you more as we go along.

Gail