Patent ID: 8019622

Claim:
A home care administration system, comprising a server system accessible via a communication network, the server system comprising: a staff scheduling module for creating a work schedule for a plurality of caregivers. wherein the work schedule assigns each of the plurality of caregivers to a plurality of visits with a respective plurality of patients; a tracking and travel management module for determining visit e information for the plurality of caregivers, tracking visit times, and determining actual travel distance between visits by caregivers. wherein at least a portion of the work schedule created by the staff scheduling module is dynamically updated based on the tracked visit times; visit record and care plan module for administering visit records initiated by the caregivers during the visits and for designing patient-specific, visit-specific care plans comprising tasks to be performed during the visits; and a communication module for bidirectionally communicating care plans, scheduling information, and route information to a plurality of mobile devices via the communication network, wherein the plurality of mobile devices are associated with the respective plurality of caregivers scheduled to visit the respective plurality of patients, wherein the server system transmits the care plans to the mobile devices so that the associated caregivers receive information regarding tasks to be performed on the patients, and wherein the mobile devices are used by the caregivers to transmit back to the server system visit record information regarding performed tasks.