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An Interdisciplinary Team or Group, more commonly referred to as IDT or IDG, is a collaborative group of professionals from various disciplines who work together to attend to the holistic needs of hospice patients and their families and friends. To develop and review the Plan of Care (POC), the IDT meets at least once every 15 days. These bi-weekly meetings ensure that every IDT member, whether core or non-core, provides care services that are consistent with the hospice philosophy and the patient’s POC.
However, conducting IDT meetings can sometimes be a struggle for hospices. Common concerns are meetings taking too long, unavailable and absent members, and inconsistent patient data, which more often than not results in ineffective IDT meetings. In the current work setting, a comprehensive and intelligent hospice EMR might just be the answer to making your IDT meetings more productive.
Data Soft Logic, as your Intelligent Care Partner, has developed the most robust IDT module in the industry with its easy to use, efficient, and compliance-augmenting capabilities. Read on to find out how this feature can make your IDT meetings more productive.
You no longer have to worry about forgetting to schedule the IDT meetings as Hospice Centre’s IDT module will do it for you in just a few clicks. In the Patient Calendar, you can easily plot the recurring IDT meeting schedule to fall on the same day every two weeks for the entire benefit period. Given that the meetings are set ahead of time, assigned disciplines can make sure that they are available on those dates.
In Hospice Centre, all forms and documents are interconnected which means that any changes on the Comprehensive Assessment will automatically be reflected in the patient’s POC. This ensures that patient data in all relevant forms are consistent and up-to-date. The IDT module also shows care problems, interventions, medication profiles, diagnoses, assigned disciplines and physicians, and the patients’ care summaries. Moreover, assigned disciplines can include narrative reports to better capture the patient’s condition.
Another common concern among hospices is the need to collaborate in between the biweekly IDT meetings. To address this, Hospice Centre developed the Collaboration Note feature which allows assigned disciplines to create notes for complaints, missed visits, physician changes, care plan updates, and collaboration requests. Any update to the care plan through the collaboration note will then auto-populate to future IDT documentation.
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These capabilities of Hospice Centre’s IDT module enable your agency to have productive and patient-centered IDT meetings. To understand better how the IDT module can empower your passion for compassion, schedule a demo with us now.
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