Introduction
The Home Health application in Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare allows provider personnel to schedule appointments for the patient based on various factors. It allows you to communicate accurate information, at the correct time, to the appropriate people, to provide safe, and effective care to your patients. With the Home Health app, you can manage home visit schedules, notify patients, and give access to medical information to the provider.
Key capabilities of the Home Health app include:
Schedule home visit - Enable care coordinators to schedule home visit appointments while viewing patient information directly in context.
Provider scheduling - View schedules of care team members and optimize visiting routes.
Patient notifications- Notify patients about upcoming appointments and send follow-up patient satisfaction survey.
Home visit coordination - Coordinate care and support distinct processes and tasks for the home visit.
Industry prioritized scenarios
Home Health focuses on the Empowering health team collaboration and Enhance patient engagement priority scenarios by creating a system that allows for improved care team coordination with optimized resources and enhanced patient engagement with personalized experiences and home visits.
Healthcare story
This exercise focuses on the healthcare story of Monica Thomson.
Monika sprained a knee while ice skating last winter and was prescribed at-home physical therapy by a practitioner to rehabilitate the injury. To facilitate this home care scenario, Lamna Healthcare Company has deployed Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare's Home Health capabilities.
In this exercise, you'll play the role of a Lamna Healthcare Company Home Health dispatcher to configure the Home Health application.