With CareVoyant Software’s built-in route optimization engine, CV miles, and an effective scheduling dashboard, you no longer have to waste time manually creating daily patient visit schedules. The software can reduce the time spent in operational planning and help you focus on patient and caregiver satisfaction.
A software platform designed to handle both home health care and outpatient services will provide a unique advantage to agencies.
Home Care Agencies can spend $500 - $1000 per employee each year on training. An elevated, industry-wide turnover rate can make training a regular cost, which is difficult for any home care agency to keep up with. The right home care software will have ONE platform from which almost all aspects of business can be performed. If key aspects of running a home care business, including intake, authorization, scheduling, clinical documentation, medication & treatment administration, EVV, billing, and revenue cycle management are all managed under one platform that is integrated with accounting and payroll, then agencies will find that they are able to significantly reduce the time it takes to onboard new employees.
Staffing and reimbursement challenges will force home healthcare agencies to do more with less while striving to provide quality care to patients. Effective care planning processes will help home healthcare agencies leverage technology and software platforms to improve the quality of care provided to patients at their homes.
Home Care agencies, whether they provide one or more home care services, face a large array of challenges, as the Home Care industry can be fluid and volatile. Consistent staffing challenges, expanding regulatory requirements, inconsistent funding, and complex agency operations are just some out of the many challenges they face, and some agencies can become quickly overwhelmed when any one of these problems rear their heads.
The bottom line of a home care agency is directly affected by the home care employee’s satisfaction, dedication, and engagement. It is of the utmost importance that home care agencies address these issues through adjusting their recruitment strategy, pouring resources into new hires, and utilizing home care software to optimize their agency from intake, all the way to billing and collections.
Even though FLSA overtime rules for home care workers have now been in vogue for a while, most private duty nursing and non-medical agencies have to strike a careful balance between the high quality and continuity of care they provide and minimizing the overtime cost.
With falling reimbursements from third-party payers, and trying to strike a balance between expectations and quality of service for private pay patients, most home care agencies are trying to adapt their business models to limit caregivers to 40 hours a week.
Many Private Duty Home Care Agencies use Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Home Health Care Software designed for visit-based Home Health Care agencies with static PDF forms to document medication and treatment administration. These solutions pose many challenges to effectively managing medication and treatment administration. Managing and administering these medications and treatments on paper or on software that does not support dynamic eMAR/eTAR will require considerable manual effort leading to errors, missed medications, or treatments endangering patient safety.
HCBS and Private Duty Non-Medical Home Care Agencies should leverage technology and intelligent automation to improve scheduling efficiency. Improving scheduling efficiency will positively impact many aspects of agency operations. A Home Care Software platform with efficient scheduling tools will improve the operational efficiency of HCBS and Private Duty Non-Medical Home Care Agencies.
Care Coordination is critical in improving collaboration, quality of care, compliance, and patient and employee satisfaction. Home Health Care Agencies need the right home care software platform with tools to coordinate care effectively and efficiently to ensure the highest quality and level of service.
Private Duty Nursing Agencies may use paper-based forms or some tools outside their Home Care EMR software to track narcotic counts for the patients at home. Using paper-based forms to track narcotics may pose many challenges in effectively monitoring the administration and counts. Private Duty Nursing Agencies should leverage technology and use the right tools integrated with the Home Care EMR Software to track and monitor narcotics count.
This blog will discuss some essential features a Home Care Software should have to effectively track and monitor narcotics count for Private Duty Nursing Home Care agencies.
Private Duty Nursing patients usually have many medications, with one or more controlled substances (Narcotics), to be administered during the shift. Medication management is one of a Private Duty Nurse's most essential responsibilities while working with patients with chronic complex medical conditions. Private Duty Home Care agencies should have a corporate policy to monitor narcotic counts and the safe handling of narcotics. Effective Narcotics Monitoring Program will maintain compliance with regulations, prevent the diversion of drugs and medication errors, and maintain accountability.
This blog will discuss the benefits of the Narcotics Monitoring Program and the best practices for implementing the program in Private Duty Nursing Home Care agencies.
