Viewing and Using Your Schedule

Select one of the following calendar type buttons to display your calendar in that particular format:

●     Day — Click the Day button to display the current day.

●     Week — Click the Week button to display the current week.

●     Month — Click the Month button to display the current week.

●     Time line — Click the Time line button to display a three-day time line (current day plus the next two days).

Use the arrows to navigate to the previous or next day, week, month, or three-day time line.

Click the calendar icon to open a popup calendar where you can change the date for the existing view.

The day, week, month, or time line displays in bold next to the calendar icon, depending on the calendar type you selected. For example, if the selected date is 5/14/2013, then selecting a calendar type would result in one of the following:

●     Day — Tuesday 5/14/2013

●     Week — Sunday 5/12/2013 - Saturday 5/18/2013

●     Month — May 2013

●     Three-day time line — Tuesday 5/14/2013 - Thursday 5/16/2013

Click the Full Screen link to expand the calendar to full size within HEALTHCAREfirst. While in full screen mode, click Minimize to return to standard view.

If you are a firstHOMECARE and firstHOSPICE combined user, you can select what types of items you want to view on your schedule. Click the drop-down menu below the Full Screen link and select one of the following:

●     Both — Select this option to display both homecare and hospice items on your schedule.

●     Homecare — Select this option to display only homecare items on your schedule.

●     Hospice — Select this option to display only hospice items on your schedule.

Selecting Homecare or Hospice here is independent of selecting a mode at the bottom of the program window. Use this option to define the types of items you want to see in your daily schedule, homecare, hospice, or both.

If necessary, you can select any of the following check boxes to view items with a specific status:

●     Unassigned

●     Assigned

●     Pending/On Hold

●     Completed

●     Released

●     Cancelled

When clinicians log in to Enterprise Edition an option for Show My Routes will appear at the bottom right of the Home screen above the Schedule. This option will allow the clinician to view visits in an order that presents the least amount of miles to travel for visits scheduled for that day, starting from either their home residence or the office address.

After clicking Show My Routes, a window will appear while Enterprise Edition is calculating the route.

After the route is calculated a window will appear that contains the Schedule Route Optimization with turn by turn directions for each visit, and a Google map of the route which can be printed and used as a travel schedule for the day.

Click View to see specifics of the visit, notes, patient demographics, and safety precautions. From here, you can do the following:

●     To view directions from the office to the visit location, click Map this Location.

●     To change visit information, click View from within the detail view to open the complete Scheduled Visit window.

●     For clinicians that are not on the document release process, click Complete to complete the visit from this location.

To return to the detailed view, click Return to Detailed View.

To open the Clinical Documents window and view documents associated with the scheduled patient, click Documents from one of the following locations:

●     on the Home page

●     from the Detailed View window after you select a visit

From the Clinical Documents window, you can create new documents (For information about creating new documents, see the Homecare Clinical Documents).