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Article: Computers help home health care
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 21, 2003
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OREM -- One of the largest home health care agencies in Utah
County saved about $200,000 last year by using computer technology to
make its data entry more efficient.
First Choice Home Specialists, a health care agency that has
provided skilled nursing services in Utah homes since 1996, began
saving money about a year and a half ago when it began tweaking its
business plan.
A member of the management team, Angel Torres, told company
executives they could save thousands of dollars if they applied some
of the lessons he had learned as a master's student at the University
of Phoenix.
Under the new plan, nurses use computers to monitor the health of
their patients, instead of paper. This has ...