BackApp, 24/7 Staffing Solution For Nurses And Caregivers, Launches in the Philippines

PASIG CITY, Philippines - Oct. 14, 2018 - PRLog -- After a successful launch among nursing home facilities in New York City in 2017, SLF Management Systems Inc., together with Advanced World Solutions Inc., announces the launch of its first mobile app in the Philippines, BackApp, around-the-clock staffing solution that connects healthcare facilities and professionals, home-based patients, and staffing agencies that need top-notch nurses and caregivers.

BackApp comes in three types: (1) Long-Term Care, a staffing solution used by affiliated staffing agencies, (2) Acute Care, a staffing solution for hospital-based nurse managers who are looking for last-minute staff replacements, and (3) Homecare, an easy access to private nurses and caregivers for home-based patients.

This all-mobile service does not only provide a hassle-free access to nurses and caregivers at the comfort of your home or healthcare establishment, but it also promotes job opportunities and further develops the healthcare standards in the country. Every health professional hired via the mobile app is carefully matched by a case manager and under close clinical monitoring by the patient's attending physician.

With at least 23,800 health care workers deployed across the Philippines, of which 17,538 are nurses, the developers behind BackApp, a group of seasoned healthcare practitioners and IT experts, are seeing an unprecedented increase in demand for both nurses and caregivers in various settings.

Edwine Joseph, assistant director of nursing at Mary Manning Walsh, a 362-bed skilled nursing facility in New York City, says, "Before BackApp, for us to find staffing when we are short on a shift, what we would do was to pick up the phone and start calling people. The process used to be lengthy because you had to call around 15 people just to get one nurse. BackApp makes our lives easier. Finding manpower now is prompt: we put the request on the app, we get a notification saying, 'this is what you need,' then all the nurses get the notification, too. After a few minutes, you'll get a notification, again, saying 'this person has accepted your request.'" She remarks, "I cannot imagine our lives without it now. BackApp has been great for us!"

Gertrudes de Guzman, director of nursing at Amsterdam Nursing Home, shares the same positive experience, "We find the mobile app very easy to use, at the same time, we get prompt responses. It facilitates our staffing needs very well. Plus, the fact that we get to know who are the nurses we are deploying is really a good thing—they are reliable, competent, and dedicated workers."

Additional Benefits of BackApp

For Healthcare Facilities

• It's a one-stop mobile marketplace for all your staffing needs.
• All registered nurses and caregivers will receive an "Alert" for "Urgent Requests."
• It eliminates overtime pay for in-house nurses and caregivers.

For Healthcare Professionals

• Keep your full-time job and choose your preferred work hours.
• It offers a competitive compensation.
• It provides the opportunity to work in different environments.

For Home-based Patients

• It ensures reliable and safe health care services, in coordination with your attending physician.
• It limits the cost of hospital admission through home-based monitoring and family health training.

For Staffing Agencies

• It develops a talent pool of top-quality healthcare professionals.
• It creates additional revenues for urgent requirements.

"Specifically, the Homecare BackApp aims to keep the Filipino family together by eliminating the need to send your sick family member to the hospital or nursing home. This ultimately reduces hospitalization costs, thus lessening the financial burden on the family," says SLF Management System Inc. President & CEO Sally Nunez.

Advanced World Solutions Software Developer Bryan Bautista adds, "We are striving towards continuity of care, and in few years' time, we aspire to bring the 'Next Generation Electronic Health Record (EHR)' platforms that will cater to all types of healthcare facilities (big and small) by linking fragmented systems of different health care providers and the families and communities they serve.

"We will leverage our U.S. presence, know-how, and experience to bring an outstanding level of quality healthcare and innovation in the Philippines."

Generally, the entire suite of BackApp products runs on Android version 4.4 (KitKat) and up and on iOS version 10 and up. It also has a back-office system that let case managers and administrative staff to closely monitor each nurse or caregiver on duty.

For more information, visit SLFManagementSystem.com or visit Facebook Page: /backapp (https://www.facebook.com/backapp/)

About SLF Management Systems Inc.

SLF Management Systems (SLF Systems) is a software development and consulting company with a team of healthcare practitioners and IT experts to implement and manage clinical apps.

About Advanced World Solutions

Established in 1993 as an offshore research and development arm of a joint venture between IBM Japan and Toshiba TEC, Advanced World Solutions (AWS) later on became an independent company, establishing its head office in Japan. With more than 25 years in the business operating in the Philippines, Japan, China, and the U.S.A, it is the strategic partner of choice by renowned companies such as IBM Japan Ltd., Lenovo, Kyocera, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and Toshiba-TEC Corporation.