by Rank Rebels
Hospice admission software

We're not replacing your EMR. We're replacing the binder.

Every hospice admission turns on the same three documents — the Medicare election consent, the state life-sustaining treatment order, and your admission consent. They live in a binder, get signed on paper, and get photographed when somebody needs a copy. Bedside is that part, on a tablet. Everything else you already own stays where it is.

Try it in your browser One-page overview (PDF) Free 30-day pilot · nothing to install

The part that isn't the signature

Anyone can put a signature on a PDF. Almost nobody encodes the rules — and the rules are what a surveyor asks about.

  1. It refuses a retroactive election date. 42 CFR § 418.24 forbids one; most software will happily let you type it.
  2. It counts your 5-day Notice of Election clock from the admission date and shows you the deadline.
  3. It won't let "attempt to resuscitate" sit next to anything but full treatment on the life-sustaining treatment order. On paper, nothing catches that.
  4. It hides the section only a patient may complete unless that patient has decision-making capacity.
  5. It asks for a second physician when the patient is a minor, because the state requires two.

Built for the house, not the office

A hospice admission happens in someone's living room, often somewhere with no signal, usually on the worst week of a family's life.

Works with no bars

Packets are filled, signed and saved on the device. Nothing waits on a connection.

Real signatures

The patient or family draws a signature with a finger — which is what Medicare's contractors expect. Not a typed name.

Photograph what they already have

An existing order, a Living Will, an insurance card. The camera appears beside the question that asks for it, and the photo never touches the camera roll.

Pick up where you left off

Start an admission on Tuesday, finish it Thursday. Find it again three weeks later.

Prints exactly like the paper

Because sometimes a paramedic needs it on the fridge.

Your state's actual form

Utah's OLST today, one state at a time after that. A portable medical order is state law, and the differences between states are not cosmetic.

Where your patients' information lives

On your device, and nowhere else. This is the part most software gets vague about, so here it is plainly.

No account, no server, no analytics

Bedside sends nothing to us. There is no sign-in, no cloud sync and no tracking of any kind — not on this page either.

So your device is what protects it

Passcode, encryption and remote wipe are yours to manage, exactly as they already are for the binder in the back of a car. Export anything you need to keep.

It is not your system of record

Whatever you use today stays the official chart. Run Bedside alongside it.

Why it's built this way

The moment a vendor holds signed hospice forms it is handling protected health information and needs a Business Associate Agreement and HIPAA-eligible hosting. We are building toward that properly rather than claiming it early.

Try it for 30 days

Free, nothing to install, no commitment. Run it beside your paper process and tell us where it's wrong — we built it from the regulations, and you've done this hundreds of times.

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