University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center Selects Thornberry and Advances from Paper to Electronic with NDoc
Thornberry Ltd is pleased to announce the selection of its NDoc® home care software by the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center.
Lancaster, Pa. (PRWEB) January 14, 2010
Thornberry Ltd is pleased to announce the selection of its NDoc® home care software by the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center. UMass Memorial Home Health and Hospice, based in Worcester, MA, will use the technology platform for its point of care, billing and operational needs with its 90 clinicians and 20 office staff.
“Our entire agency will gain significant operational efficiencies with the implementation of NDoc,” said Mary Stone, Director of Operations for UMass Memorial Home Health and Hospice. “Currently, our paper-based process requires tremendous clinical supervisory time and expense to find and correct documentation inconsistencies. NDoc nearly eliminates these time-consuming tasks, enabling our clinical supervisors to focus on far more strategic activities. We also chose NDoc because of its extensive, real-time edit checks as clinicians are charting on the point-of-care laptops.”
The agency will enjoy a dramatic reduction in redundant data entry. Currently, clinicians’ notes must be hand written and all visit activity must be keyed by other personnel. With NDoc, this will occur automatically. Electronic medical records, automated tasks and improved electronic communications will reduce the time clinicians will be in the office, creating more field time to serve additional patients. The agency will implement NDoc in spring 2010.
“Our goal is to assist agencies in becoming more efficient and effective,” said Tom Peth, president of Thornberry Ltd. “Our preliminary evaluations indicate that UMASS will experience dramatic gains in both, enabling their team to provide even higher quality care to an even greater number of patients.”
About Thornberry Ltd
Thornberry Ltd provides strategic technology platforms to home health and hospice agencies. Focused on increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical, clerical and executive staff, Thornberry provides proven solutions to the challenges facing the healthcare industry. Challenges met by Thornberry’s highly respected NDoc point of care and billing solution. Challenges met by Thornberry’s connected care technology and by Thornberry’s broad network of partners that provide fully integrated telemedicine, mobile technology, benchmarking and other essential services. Visit www. thornberryltd. com or call 717.283.0980 to find out how Thornberry can provide a game-changing solution for your organization.
About UMass Memorial Home Health and Hospice
Fully accredited by the Joint Commission and certified by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, UMass Memorial Home Health supports patients in remaining independent at home. The UMass Memorial Home Health staff members provide patients with quality health care assistance, including skilled nursing, therapy and health education programs that help prevent future hospitalizations and offer patients an opportunity for early hospital discharge. UMass Memorial Home Health was recently named to the 2009 HomeCare Elite. The agency ranked in the top 25 percent of home health providers nationally for quality performance in outcomes and improvement by HomeCare Elite in each of the past four years.
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