Fair Care Solutions has developed a system that contributes to the transparency of spending municipal money in home care. Fair Care, a blockchain-based way of registration, gives municipalities the opportunity to check whether public money intended for home care is actually being spent well. The municipality of Gilze en Rijen and home care organization Actief Zorg will start with the first application of the system in daily practice in March of next year.
Follow the money
A common criticism of the Social Support Act (Wmo) is the lack of transparency when it comes to municipal money and the healthcare costs involved in the implementation of this law by the municipalities. It is not easy for municipalities to distinguish between good and malicious companies, according to one report of the journalistic program Pointer in collaboration with Follow The Money that was broadcast yesterday on NPO 2. Among the long list of care providers, mostly bona fide companies, there are a few organizations that seem to be only after money.
Blockchain makes healthcare provision transparent
Marcel Damen, director of Horizon Internet Technologies and co-founder of Fair Care Solutions, saw a solution to this problem in blockchain technology. Damen says:
“Blockchain technology is very suitable for providing insight into actions in public processes. This has been the starting point of Fair Care; a system applicable in home care that registers where and when a care moment has taken place. "
Registration via NFC
The system works by means of a special sticker with an NFC chip that is placed in the home of a home care customer. A healthcare provider who comes to the customer's home scans this sticker with the Fair Care app on his or her phone. After leaving the home, the sticker is scanned again before leaving the house. In this way it is registered where, when and for how long a care moment has taken place. The customer also has the option of assessing care provision via the Fair Care app. In this way, the quality of the care moment can also be registered.
Active Care and the municipality of Gilze and Rijen start with Fair Care
To put Fair Care into practice, Damen entered into discussions with municipalities and home care organizations that wanted to enter into a partnership. He found these partners in the municipality of Gilze en Rijen and home care organization Actief Zorg. The first phase concerns all more than 500 Actief Zorg customers within this municipality. The aim is to have the system fully implemented in early March.
“After implementation within Gilze Rijen, we can roll out within other municipalities more quickly. We are therefore in the final phase with a number of other municipalities to apply Fair Care there too, for more transparency about municipal money. Through Fair Care we want to ensure that the available public money is optimally and properly spent on good home care, ”says Damen.
