Home Care Visit Logging App

Each client's home has a QR code. Scanning it with the Capacitor barcode plugin records arrival, and scanning again on the way out records departure. The method is quick, works with gloves on and does not depend on GPS, which can be unreliable in flats and terraced streets.

Because arrival is captured at the door rather than written up later, the office sees visits confirmed as they happen, and late or missed visits can be followed up the same day.

• Arrival and departure from a code in the home
• No dependence on GPS accuracy
• Live visit confirmation for the office

Signal is often weakest exactly where care is delivered. Care notes, medication records and photo evidence are stored locally in SQLite on the phone, with photos captured through the Capacitor camera plugin, and synchronised automatically once a connection returns.

Care workers no longer have to stand in the street looking for signal, and nothing is lost if a visit happens in a dead zone. The record is complete when it reaches the office, just later.

The provider's office system was already written in Angular. Ionic and Capacitor let us reuse that code — its data models, validation and much of its interface — and package it as native Android and iOS apps, adding mobile-specific features through Capacitor plugins.

Fastlane automated builds and store submissions for both platforms. Reuse is what made the timeline possible: seven weeks from starting work to the app being available in both stores.

• Existing Angular codebase reused
• Native features through Capacitor plugins
• Fastlane-automated store releases

Firebase Cloud Messaging alerts care workers to new visits, changes and cancellations, so they are not working from an out-of-date rota. The office can adjust the day and know workers have been told.

Every visit record — times, tasks and notes — feeds the evidence the provider sends to local authorities, produced automatically rather than assembled from paper. Billing is faster, and queries can be answered from the record itself.