Business Cloud The Role of Technology in Care Homes

Article published in Business Cloud

Over 30,000 care home workers across the UK are using cloud-based technology to save time and improve patient care.

Person Centred Software has reached its 1,000th care home milestone and says its mobile application is changing the way frontline care is delivered.

Health and social care has been notoriously slow to move away from paper-based documentation. Even care providers that adopted desktop computers, care staff would still write up everything using words at the end of their shift; words which were subject to interpretation, were inconsistent and unmeasurable. The use of desktop computers also delivered minimal time savings since staff had to walk back and forth to a device throughout the day to record care.