Now that you’ve compiled the relevant data about revenue, margins, cash flow and efficiencies for your home health or hospice agency, how can your agency benefit? The idea is to collect relevant metrics, share them widely and manage to them, … Continue Reading
A home health document management solution can virtually eliminate paper records and increase agency efficiency, but it also can help you stay ahead of your contracts. Pam Aipperspach, manager of training and technology at Heritage Home Healthcare & Hospice, Albuquerque, … Continue Reading
Despite the movement of documentation, charting, patient records and more to electronic forms, how many paper documents do you generate at your home health agency? And more important, how many FTEs at your agency are dedicated to filing, retrieving, copying … Continue Reading
If I had a crystal ball and could accurately envision what the future of healthcare will look like, I could retire a rich woman. Unfortunately, I don’t. But I do know that home health will be central to the success … Continue Reading
In a previous blog, medical ethnographer Monique Lambert described the time-intensive, homegrown methods QA staff sometimes employ to complete compliant care plan documentation. As part of her study, Lambert also has conducted baseline studies of field nursing staff who are … Continue Reading
Monique Lambert gets paid to study people. And she’s discovered that QA staff at agencies spend an inordinate amount of time trying to complete home health documentation. Lambert is a medical ethnographer and investigator with the David Druker Center for … Continue Reading
Evaluating software by how easy it is to learn and use may be your safest bet. Software often brings with it a certain rigidity and counter-intuitiveness. Instead of adapting to users’ needs, users often have to change how they have … Continue Reading
I’ve been writing about clinical management strategies a lot lately, and with good reason. The time is ripe for home health and hospice agencies to embrace the power that a clinical management home health software solution and evidence-based practices can … Continue Reading
Technology has totally transformed our lives over the past two decades. Think back to 1993. Did you own a cell phone? Probably not. Did you have Internet access? Likely not that either. But can you imagine life now without the … Continue Reading
The promise of true clinical management would not be possible without the right enabling technology – both hardware and software – to push those concepts into patient homes. Because that’s where care plans are developed and care decisions made, it’s … Continue Reading
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