The cost pressure is forcing hospitals to send patient home sooner than ever. But how can the patient be cared for at home and comply with the appropriate prescribed treatment? Who takes care of them at home? Here, communication between the centre and the medical professionals at the patient’s location is of central importance. The monitoring of treatment along with feedback from the patient can have a decisive influence on treatment success. Using an easy-to-create Care Group, specialists can organize themselves and their colleagues efficiently outside of the hospital in relation to the patient. Everyone is kept fully up to date and knows who has discussed what with the patient and what has been changed or prescribed.

Many post-operative processes are standardized and always follow the same or a similar procedure. However, the organization around such processes is often expensive and time-consuming and in many cases is still issued on paper. With clear role management, specialists can organize themselves in relation to the patient with ease. This eliminates duplication, prescribing can be easily followed using a treatment plan and the patient actively participates in the treatment process. This increases motivation, eliminates failures and incorrect applications and improves the chances of success.

Who said, diagnosed or prescribed what and what criteria were applied? Within the hospital department, specialists communicate with nursing staff in the patient report and appropriate measures can be initiated immediately. But, even at shift change within the department or when transferring the patient to another department, some information is lost. Not to mention if the patient leaves the hospital entirely and is newly cared for at home by the hospital’s home care service together with the family doctor. These processes are complex and communication is difficult and no longer consistent. Here, Care Integrator offers great opportunities to move beyond structural boundaries when communicating with each other.

Many health organizations base care of the chronically ill on clearly defined guidelines (evidence-based medicine, EBM) which have shown that treatment success increases when certain standardized specifications are complied with. In particular, networks of doctors in cooperation with insurers have a major interest in compliance with these guidelines. Because the sheer number of chronically ill patients for whom improved treatment success can be achieved using these guidelines can result in a significant cost reductions. These cases are paid for on the basis of managed care contracts between networks of doctors and insurers. Care Integrator not only facilitates greater availability and better cooperation between networks of doctors and insurers, it also provides the opportunity to track success directly and make it tangible on the basis of insightful reporting.

Oral cytostatics or immunotherapies are not only changing the life expectancy of patients but are also having a direct effect on the treatment process. In the case of intravenous administration of the relevant medication, the hospital used to have control of the entire treatment process as well as the patient. This has changed with the prescription of such medications in tablet form. The patient no longer comes into the hospital but rather gets his medication from the pharmacy. This means that the oncology centre loses control of the patient and has to rely on feedback from the patient or pharmacist. Care Integrator supports this process and keeps all of the medical professionals involved in relation to the patient up to date. Thus, the oncologist at the hospital can once again be kept up to date on the current status of the most recent activities in relation to the patient. For example, this can be supported in a targeted manner by linking leukocyte monitoring at the patient’s home.

In the field of oncology, this means a tumor board review, in the case of other indications, expert groups or expert discussion groups. Medical professionals discuss patients or patient files and support each other in finding the best treatment approaches or in order to learn from the different cases. Care Integrator helps you to organize yourself together with expert colleagues and find solutions for further steps. Regardless of where you are or when you want to submit your contributions.

Chronic patients are often prescribed multiple medications that have to be taken at different times and in the prescribed combinations. This presents immense challenges for many patients. Help the patient with simple adherence support at home, in order to better support the logistics of the medication. This provides you with valuable feedback from the patient, which you can discuss directly during your next consultation. What’s more, you can also involve members with the patient in the process – so you have someone who is there with the patient and can provide them with direct support.

In Care Integrator, you can form expert groups in order to resolve tricky and challenging cases. By involving experts in specific issues, you receive direct support to meet the daily challenges. And they are organized in such a way that you can then submit follow-up queries when it best suits you in regard to your process organization. Even if you are on your way to an international convention.