Home care options compliance tablet for post-acute-care patients

A self-help tablet for the autonomous and robotic referral of post-acute-care patients to designated healthcare services (DHS), comprising:

• a commercially marketed tablet with a touchscreen display and Wi-Fi communication capabilities stripped of its original operating system, and thereafter used to host a healthcare dashboard personalized for and operable by a single designated patient;
• a navigation receiver included in the tablet and adapted for geo-fencing with time and place boundaries predefined for the operation of the home healthcare dashboard by the single designated patient;
• a file included in the tablet that includes service and contacts details of a plurality of DHS providers prequalified to provide healthcare services to the single designated patient, wherein the home healthcare dashboard enables navigation amongst, informational display, and selection by the single designated patient of various ones of the plurality of DHS providers;
• wherein, a single post-acute-care patient who has authenticated themselves to the self-help tablet is enabled to choose for themselves a DHS provider for post-acute-care given sterilized, harmonized, and normalized information and summaries directed via the self-help tablet;
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• wherein, any significant messages, images, displays, and announcements produced by the self-help tablet, and any of the post-acute-care patient's responses, are recorded and stored for later compliance audits and records.

An artificial intelligence internal compliance assistant for the referral of designated healthcare services (DHS) to Medicare and Medicaid post-acute-care patients in hospitals immediately before their discharge, comprising:

• a personal tablet device limited to Wi-Fi communication with a case manager server on a hospital floor, geo-fenced to operate only on that hospital floor, personalized and authenticated to only one predetermined and designation patient while on that hospital floor, and having an installed control program that does not display a desktop metaphor or browser window, and that further includes a voice, chat, text, and/or data communication ability to contact any displayed DHS provider in real-time;
• wherein, a patient assigned and designated to receive and use the personal tablet device is restricted to a limited time frame and restricted area for use that the personal tablet device enforces by not operating outside those restrictions and limitations with its own electronic computations of time and place;
• wherein, the DHS providers displayable and selectable by the patient assigned and designated are selected via touch screen and the selections are recorded on a case managers server within wireless communication and copied to a case manager;
• wherein, case manager logins are pre-authenticated, such that entering a new session simply requires entering an approved email to be copied;
• wherein, the display of DHS information and interfacing options has multi-lingual support;
• wherein, all DHS providers that are displayable and selectable have been prequalified as having compliant arrangements with referring physicians in writing with the signed arrangements having digital images of each stored and accessible for screen viewing.