“Home care” means home medical assistance for patients, being a modality that has been increasingly used in Brazil.

Before we talk about the importance and impacts of a home care audit, This concept of “home care” needs to be clear to you, no matter how intuitive it may be.

Patients eligible for home care can use services such as physiotherapy, nutritionist, medication application, medical or nursing monitoring and can also be admitted to their homes in the presence of a technician and the necessary equipment.

This type of service generates, of course, benefits and challenges for healthcare providers and we will talk about some of them below.

Discover the main benefits of home care

The first benefit that we can mention is the comprehensive and individualized assistance delivered to the patient, increasing care for the beneficiary who uses home care.

This home care also provides a decrease in the number of hospital infections that can occur in wards and hospitals.

O treatment and/or hospitalization time tends to decrease due to a better response to the therapeutic proposal offered by home care.

And yet, the costs for operators also reduce with the provision of hospital beds and the elimination of hospitalization expenses that are no longer necessary for home care.

Finally, another advantage of home care is the ensuring proactive preparations for patient discharge, with a better coordinated stay process, which generates a more assertive prediction of a reliable discharge date.

These care practices favor the patients' treatment plan and ensure that the provider acts in accordance with the requirements demanded by the plans.

Understand some of the challenges of home care

Regarding the challenges of offering a home care service to beneficiaries, health operators can face problems with the individuality of each patient.

In other words, even though the service is home-based and can be personalized, the provider must comply with pre-established protocols and perform the techniques so that the treatment can take place.

A Logistics can also be a big challenge for operators, after all, a team of professionals will have to travel with all the necessary materials and medicines.

The responsible operator will have to ensure that this logistics is organized effectively, considering factors such as distances, transportation, among others.

Finally, a third challenge worth considering is in relation to home care legislation, to validate patient eligibility and coverage of procedures to be performed in residence.

Questions such as the minimum level of assistance that the operator should pay, how many and what types of professionals it should recruit for the service and what level of technology will be used to help manage services will be frequent.

How the largest operators audit home care

Operators that offer home care services to their customers can become even more profitable using SAUDI, a audit system which was created to help health plan operators with financial management and provide greater results through assertive and intelligent cost management.

Operators that offer home care services to their customers can become even more profitable using our system.

Currently, the largest healthcare providers in Brazil already use SAUDI, the most complete and integrable medical audit system available on the market.

In addition to automating the entire medical audit process, our system generates better results in the first quarter of use!

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