Admissions, care plans, therapy scheduling across disciplines, milestone tracking, wearable-assisted progress monitoring, family updates and discharge planning. Three professions work on the same person in the same week; CareTech does the reconciliation nobody currently has time to do.
Physiotherapy writes up a session. Occupational therapy writes up a different session, about the same person, on the same afternoon. Speech therapy writes up a third.
Each note is accurate. Each is written in the vocabulary of its own discipline, filed in its own system or its own paper folder, and read almost exclusively by the discipline that wrote it. The care plan they are all working towards exists, usually as a document agreed at admission and consulted rarely thereafter.
So the question a family asks at week three — is he getting better — has three partial answers and no whole one. Somebody assembles it manually before the case conference, or nobody does.
The spine is the point where three streams of work come back together into something a multidisciplinary team reads in one sitting.
CareTech structures recovery from admission to discharge.
What the facility agrees to do, written once and referred to by everyone.
Three professions, three calendars, one patient — coordinated rather than merely co-located.
Discharge is the point at which coordination either held or did not.
The failure in rehabilitation software is rarely missing data. It is data that exists three times, in three vocabularies, and is only ever assembled by a person under time pressure before a meeting.
Milestones are defined on the care plan, so each discipline records progress against the same agreed thing.
Notes stay in the language of the discipline that wrote them, and remain attributable to the clinician who wrote them.
Five questions that decide whether three disciplines end up reading one record.