April 24, 2008 -- Expansion of Horizon Team with Three Home Care IT Pros

Horizon announces the addition of three long-time home care industry IT experts to the development and customer support staff. Karen Bence, Lisa Davies, and Clint Hopper bring a combined 50 years of relevant system design, development, and support experience to the Horizon Healthware team. Bence, both a developer and a Registered Nurse, has worked extensively with clinical applications; Davies is an expert in billing and reimbursement systems; and Hopper’s experience includes creation of a visit scheduling system. We anticipate an immediate acceleration in Horizon's ability to deliver system enhancements to customers in the ever-changing home and hospice care industries. Click the link above for the full story in a downloadable PDF file.

April 2008 -- Spring Trade Show Schedule

Visit our booth at these upcoming shows: April 14-15 Carolinas Center for Hospice & End of Life Care in Winston-Salem, and April 28-29 Association for Home and Hospice Care NC in Research Triangle Park.

March 31, 2008 -- ClinicPro Charting Forms Now Include Hospice

Enhancement of the new ClinicPro electronic charting system has continued since its release last year; we recently completed development of hospice-specific charting forms such as Spiritual Assessment, Bereavement Assessment, Patient Problem/Goal/Intervention Careplan, and a hospice Visit Note. A current PROMISE-user agency has volunteered to be the first to implement ClinicPro for Hospice, with training to take place in early April.

October 9, 2007 -- New Point-of-Care Clinical Software Unveiled

After a 4-year redevelopment effort, Horizon is pleased to announce that the new ClinicPro system is fully operational for home health visit notes and OASIS collection. Designed for tablet PCs and utilizing Microsoft's .Net technology, ClinicPro provides clinicians a completely intuitive electronic charting system with screens that look exactly like the forms they already know. The clinicians who now use ClinicPro every day for their "paperwork" are loving the time and paper saved, and both they and their agency supervisors report that the transition from paper to electronic charting was much easier than they imagined because of the unique approach Horizon employed with ClinicPro.

July 7, 2006 -- Release of Santrax Telephony Interface

Horizon clients can now use telephones to capture visit data for billing. In early July, Horizon Healthware's PROMISE billing system successfully processed visit activity that was captured by Santrax, a telephony product offered by Sandata Technologies, Inc. Home care agency employees call a toll-free number when they arrive at the patient's home to "clock in", and call again as they leave to enter codes for their activities and "clock out". The Santrax system stores this activity in a file that PROMISE imports as visit transactions, with all necessary data fields such as personnel number, patient number,visit code, and visit time having been captured by telephone. From there, the time and visit data is processed the same as if it were keyed in through the daily or calendar entry screens of PROMISE, with minutes/hours converted to units as appropriate for Medicaid billing. Visit our products page for more information on this and other cooperative efforts between Horizon and allied vendors bringing seamless "best of breed" solutions to mutual customers.