Care paths are standard components in the Progresa Health Systems software. Because a care path is derived from accepted industry practices for specific diseases groups or functional deficits, it ensures that the level of care is consistent across similar patient populations. As a result, patient outcomes of care can be monitored, quality and consistency can be maintained, and care outcomes can be measured to facilitate continuous improvement and development of the best clinical practices.
- Derived from industry standard care plans and designed to manage the major care components of specific disease management
- Assists the clinician in educating the patient/caregiver(s) in relationship to the skills and knowledge necessary to manage a disease process independently
- Ensures consistency between clinicians and enables measurement of the results of care
By improving clinical practice, an agency can demonstrate expertise in addressing specific patient populations and improving health status. Care paths also benefit agencies directly by helping to maximize services and control costs.
Care paths help to identify variance in care needs among specific patient populations so that appropriate proactive changes can be made in the delivery of care.
Benefits of Care Paths
- Defines clinical standards of care, guidelines, and protocols
- Features a consistent approach to care
- Facilitates interdisciplinary coordination and communication
- Supports measurement of outcomes of care
- Offers provider education/evidence-based practice
- Identifies variances and needed changes to care
- Increases client self-care and treatment compliance
- Improves productivity and reduces cost of care
- Addresses acute, long term, or palliative care needs
- Allows efficient documentation and updates of the care path
- Provides on-screen view of patient progress from visit to visit
- Displays all active disciplines
- Available for Nursing, PT, OT and ST
- Features on-screen previews of discipline-specific active care paths and multidisciplinary care path history
- Coordinates with telehealth tools
- Offers built-in cues that support consistent care and documentation
- Measures results in real time at the POC
- Supports OBQM and accreditation standards
Why Care Paths?
