Cloud Service-Based Home Care Assessment System Developed Jointly with the Japan
Visiting Nursing Foundation and the Ehime Visiting Nursing Council
Help streamline and improve the quality of services through IT-based periodic
assessments, home-visit nursing plan creation and evaluation.
The Company has developed, jointly with the Japan Visiting Nursing Foundation(President: Kiyoko Shimizu) and the General Incorporated Association, Ehime Visiting
Nursing Council (President: Mamiko Onishi), the Home Care Assessment System, asystem that enables the creation of a home-visit nursing plan based on objective
assessment.
Expectations are quickly rising among citizens in Japan's aging society for efficient andeffective assistance from home medical and nursing care services, as the Japanese
government has been recently encouraging the early release of patients from hospital, astep aimed to lower the nation's medical bills. Among such services, the home-visit
nursing service plays a central role in aiding patients and their family members incollaboration with the attending doctor, care manager and helper, among otherprofessionals involved of various fields of expertise. Hence, home-visit nursing has
become essential for the patient and their family members to live normally in the localcommunity.
In home-visit nursing, the operator is required to formulate a nursing plan from avariety of circumstances and information, as well as providing the service according tothe plan. However, no common methodology for formulating such a nursing plan has
spread in the country, making the existing service reliant on the attending nurse's
knowledge and experience, a situation that has caused the service to often vary greatlyin quality. When issuing an invoice for medical service fees, operators using service
plans that are not backed on solid evidence tend to have their number of service hours
reduced. In this respect, it is an important task to establish and spread a methodologyof formulating the service plan and provide IT- and data analysis-based operational
assistance for home-visit nursing services.
The Home Care Assessment System developed by the Company uses, as an objective
basis for plan formulation, a foundation-type assessment scheme, the rights to which isowned by the Japan Visiting Nursing Foundation. This foundation-type assessment
scheme incorporates the various parameters required for home medical service, such as
the patient's preferences and their family's status, in addition to a physical patient
assessment. Consequently, this scheme allows the operator to achieve a certain level ofresults without being unduly affected by the nurse's experience.
Moreover, the Home Care Assessment System offers the function to accumulate andanalyze a vast amount of nursing data, a feature enabled by systemizing a series ofnursing processes, from assessment to final evaluation. This was based on a newautomatic analysis logic as well as the foundation-type scheme. Creating a database ofnursing processes allows one to objectively judge: 1) whether the service is provided
according to the appropriate nursing plan; and 2) whether a nursing plan revision has
caused the patient's condition to improve, thereby achieving higher service quality.
Going forward, through the Japan Visiting Nursing Foundation and the Ehime Visiting
Nursing Council's Home Care Assessment System, the Company will raise awarenessfor the above-mentioned common methodology in formulating a nursing plan. At thesame time, we will encourage usage of the methodology by providing it in the form of acloud computing-based service, which requires less money and effort to implement. By
approaching not only home-visit nursing providers, but also release-aid hospital
departments and other entities in various domains, we will also assist the patient insmoothly migrating to a home medical service from various angles. Moreover, we willcontribute to saving medical expenses through optimizing home-visit nursing andnursing care in terms of service count and description, something that will be attainedby improving nursing quality.