HHVBP represents the most significant change to provide incentives (or penalties) to Medicare Certified Home Health Agencies to give higher quality and more efficient care. Home Health Agencies must review processes to monitor quality outcomes and adjust as needed.

Documenting care from memory or using the notes taken at the patient's home even after a few hours may lead to incomplete documentation due to decreased memory retention. With all the responsibilities put on clinicians and caregivers – Multiple Patient Visits, Communication with physicians and other team members, etc. – retention of learned information will decline during the first 24 hours. Home Health Care Agencies should strongly encourage clinicians to document at the patient's home and provide the tools necessary to make it easy and intuitive.

The software platform will play a critical role in helping Home Health Agencies to implement OASIS-E changes. Agencies should check with their software vendors to understand their plans to accommodate OASIS-E, make sure their plan will meet the requirements, and adjust their process accordingly.

This blog reviews the functions needed to support your transition to OASIS-E.

In this blog, we will review OASIS-E changes, the impact of these changes, and how the agencies should prepare for these changes.

Private Duty Nursing is different from your traditional home health as it requires skilled care for medically fragile patients. The care is typically provided in longer shifts from 8 to 12 hours and for a limited number of patients over a longer period of time. In the Private Duty Nursing field, the nurse or LPN gets to know the patient as a person and can really become quite attached to their patient. The care provided can be in multiple settings such as the patient's home, school, or even a group home setting.

In the third article in the series on how home care agencies can navigate staffing challenges, we look at how scheduling, communications, clinical documentation, alerts and validations at the point of care must integrate on one platform to help you utilize resources optimally.

In this second article in the series on how home care agencies can navigate staffing challenges, we look at how efficient authorization management and scheduling can help home care agencies to get the most out of limited resources.

Even though home care agencies use software for clinical documentation, they still face challenges in meeting consistent and quality documentation requirements in compliance with the physician's orders and plan of care. In this article.

At CareVoyant, we have a strategic focus on improving operational efficiency and have made it a central theme of our development efforts. We empower home care agencies with features that will help them do more with less across care coordination, scheduling, and revenue cycle management functions. This article looks deeply at how each functional area can contribute to optimal reimbursement and accelerate cash flow.

Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) provide Medicaid beneficiaries opportunities to receive services in their own home or community rather than institutions or other isolated settings. These programs serve various targeted population groups, such as people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, and mental illnesses.

Consumer Directed Services (CDS) are home healthcare services offered by Medicaid or Medicaid waiver programs where the consumer (Patient) can hire the caregiver and coordinate the services authorized.

Nurses providing Private Duty Nursing care work in longer shifts providing continuous care for the same patient. They need to collect and document Vitals and Measurements (Vent Settings, Trach Settings, Cough Logs, Seizure Logs, etc.) and administer medications and treatments multiple times during the shift. Providing continuous care in a longer shift creates unique documentation challenges for nurses and Private Duty Home Care agencies. A software platform should accommodate the challenges of Continuous Care Documentation for Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies.

A Home Care Agency's management should look at defining KPIs in client acquisition, staff recruiting, deployment, marketing, and financial performance. These KPIs will help agencies measure, monitor, and manage the operations and give them the ability to focus on improving operational efficiency and growth.

Interestingly, most of the currently available software have limited features to handle or not be able to handle the billing requirements, and as such, in-home outpatient therapy services will pose unique challenges for scheduling, documentation, and billing.

A software platform designed to handle both home health care and outpatient services will provide a unique advantage to agencies.

Improving operational efficiency in scheduling, clinical documentation, and quality assurance will impact the bottom line of Home Care Agencies. In this article, we discuss the five steps home care agencies can take to improve the utilization of clinicians' time. Home Care Agencies should look for a software platform that will provide the right tools to enhance clinicians' productivity.

A comprehensive, integrated software platform that can handle different services provided by the home care agency is essential for operation efficiency, quality of care, and patient/employee satisfaction.

Care Coordination plays a critical role in improving collaboration, quality of care, and compliance. Home Health Care Agencies need the tools to coordinate care effectively and efficiently to ensure the highest quality and level of service.

Millions of patients receive home care every year. Providing quality patient care is critical for home care agencies for patient satisfaction and growth while complying with regulatory requirements. The quality and effectiveness of patient care is a collaborative effort from the entire organization. Communication plays a critical role in improving collaboration, quality of care, and compliance. Home Health Care Agencies need to communicate securely, effectively, and efficiently to ensure the highest quality and level of service.

The Spring 2022 rankings of home healthcare software providers are out on g2.com. We are continuing our journey of getting better across multiple home healthcare categories.

During the recent times, there has been an increasing demand as well as the adoption of electronic medication administration records (eMAR) Software, especially by caregivers providing Private Duty Nursing. By employing a system such as eMAR (electronic Medication Administration Record) can not only ensure that medication errors don’t occur, but also achieve a whole host of other advantages. In this article, we talk about the functionalities and the importance of Electronic Medication Administration Records (eMAR) Software for Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies.