Falcon, another wing of mumms® Hummingbird, has the mission to deliver superlative technology to hospice clinicians and administrators today and is designed to ensure mumms®’ flexibility embraces the coming improvements in mobile technology that will inevitably come tomorrow. 

Falcon is a product of mumms® Engineering, and its development occurred in the mumms® Lab. Other companies that compete with mumms® typically access their mobile technology through external interfaces and use of third-party systems, which require the development of expensive and time consuming interfaces with more companies and more contracts. Such interfaces tend to increase the time needed for data transfer, navigating clinical forms, and routine data processing. With Falcon, information is automatically added directly into the EMR, which provides instant access to real time medical records and newly entered patient data for the entire interdisciplinary team. 

Falcon’s cell phone application also has the ability to work with any cell phone carrier, another innovation lacking with external company programs. Falcon was designed to operate on any WebKit enabled browser, including mobile devices, tablets, laptops, and PCs. This provides hospice managers the freedom to select less expensive device options for their staff: iPhones, Android phones, Blackberry 6 phones, iPads, Android tablets, netbooks, or lower powered and less expensive laptops.

The three components of Falcon are: CNA App, CPC Mobile, and GPS.

CNA App | Mobility For CNAs 

The CNA App is the mumms® application designed to support CNA patient visits while using any Falcon mobile device. The app supports Falcon’s GPS feature so that hospice administrators can compile accurate time and mileage reports on CNA work time and travel. 

With the CNA App:

1. The nurse creates/edits a CNA care plan for a patient.
2. At the beginning of his/her work shift, each CNA logs in to the CNA App to see a list of his/her assigned patients.
3. Clicking on a patient displays a custom form, based on that patient’s care plan, for the CNA to complete. This form includes:
   1. Information that the assigning nurse wants to convey to the CNA, e.g., “Patient is Bedbound”.
   2. Checklists of tasks that the CNA should provide, e.g., “Assist with shower, change wound dressings, nail care”.
   3. Fields for patient vitals.
   4. Checkbox, radio button, text, and text area questions.
   5. Fields for entering any other text or additional information.
   6. Synchronization to the patient’s medical record in real-time, which is viewable to the patient’s IDT members and simultaneously incorporated into CPC reports.
   7. Accessibility via one of the devices listed for Falcon access, i.e., any WebKit enabled browser, including iPads, iPhones, Blackberry 6s, Droids, or Android-based tablets.
   8. Information that is automatically added to the patient’s medical record.
   9. Driving map and turn-by-turn directions from the CNA’s current location to the next visit location.
   10. Compliance with CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services), The Joint Commission, CHAP (Community Health Accreditation Program), and ACHC (Accreditation Commission for Healthcare) standards and requirements.

CPC Mobile | Speed for IPUs (Coming Soon)

CPC Mobile is the new, lightning fast, online version of the CPC program specifically designed to work on tablets, smart phones, laptops, and PCs through an active Internet connection. CPC Mobile is the perfect EMR resource for those users with the capability to remain online with the mumms® server network, such as an inpatient unit’s staff. Key features of CPC Mobile include:

1. Online access utilizing any of the devices listed for Falcon access, including WebKit enabled smart phones or tablets, iPads, iPhones, Blackberry 6s, Droids, or Android-based tablets, laptops, and PCs.
2. Completely new internal interface, based on the latest technological advances and it directs time-consuming data processing to the server instead of the client’s computer. This server-connect feature is what makes CPC Mobile so fast, and the added speed helps create the ideal candidate for an IPU EMR environment.
3. Dramatic reduction in time needed to process growing medical records because of the online connection with the host server.

GPS | GPS Tracking

mumms® can now provide real-time GPS tracking information on employees as they depart to work in the community, travel, and return from work each day.

1. This application tracks each employee that uses a GPS-enabled phone, tablet, or computer.
2. The GPS feature displays a dashboard for administrators to see current employee locations: each employee’s name and location on a map.
3. The GPS feature will improve hospice employee safety as it provides hospice administrators with the precise location of each employee, can confirm stop/idle times, report excessive driving speeds, and geo-fencing with its user-defined settings for travel boundaries supports increasing travel efficiency by all employees.
4. This application’s information can populate employee time sheets, including non-work times (e.g., lunch, personal time, etc.) and time for non-patient visits.
5. Mileage reports compare the number of miles an employee should have driven to the number of miles actually driven.
6. Time reports compare the amount of time the employee should have consumed while traveling to the amount of time actually traveling.
7. Variance reports can confirm visits that were not actually performed at the patient’s home.
8. Hospice managers can replay employee travel for the day and actually witness where employees invested their time.
9. Hospice managers can view current employee locations and more efficiently dispatch employees (CNAs) closest to the patient’s location.