The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. September 26, 2024
The Importance of Health Literacy in Home Care
Patients often take for granted the importance of understanding the what, when, why, and how of the care they receive. Caregivers are no less guilty – unintentionally, they might miss that a patient has tuned out of a procedural explanation due to a lack of comprehension.
Expanded health literacy in both caregivers in patients can better patients’ health outcomes, decrease emergency room visits by ensuring people seek out preventative care, reduce the number of dosing errors, help patients manage chronic conditions, and increase patient satisfaction.
The best Home Care Software will be easy to use, integrated, support multiple lines of service, and keep your agency compliant on all fronts. The right Home Care Software will also have flexibility, configurability, great support, and understand that optimization is a continuous process as your agency grows.
For long-term success in the home care industry, it is important not just to look for the Best Home Care Software, but also the one that aims to serve as a partner with you to help you grow.
At multiple intervals during long shifts, Private Duty Nurses take vitals and measurements, administer medications and treatments, and document the care they provide. Providing and documenting care repeatedly over many hours can create multiple organizational challenges for Private Duty Nurses and PDN agencies, which, if not addressed correctly, can impact employee productivity, satisfaction, and quality of care.
Private Duty Nursing Home Care Software that utilizes a mobile app can make agencies and nurses more efficient and improve patient care.
Home Healthcare Industry News
The Growing, Troublesome Issues Around Non-Solicitation Agreements In Home Care
Non-solicitation agreements in home care are meant to prevent clients from hiring a caregiver directly and cutting out the agency.
As CMS Cuts Payments, Home Health Patients Are Seeing Reduced Access To Care
The data analysis examines Medicare home health fee-for-service claims from 2022 through 2023, in order to determine access to care, and how it has been impacted by payment rate cuts.
Study spots prescribing cascades that could harm older adults
A new study highlights potentially problematic prescribing cascades that occur when people are given a medication to help them deal with an adverse drug reaction caused by a previously taken prescription medication.
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