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.

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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.

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.

Electronic visit verification was created to reduce fraud and ensure that people receive the documented care they need. EVV was designed to help verify that services billed for home healthcare are for actual visits made. The passing of the Affordable Care Act signed into law in 2010 made provisions for reducing fraud and over-payments, requiring states to stop Medicaid payments to providers when there is credible evidence of fraud.

CareVoyant, as an industry pioneer, has strived to bring you the best of both with an integrated home care software solution for agencies providing multiple lines of service. With the power of one database, not only do you reduce your investments, but also eliminate redundant processes while getting unified clinical, administrative, and financial views.

To improve operational efficiency. Home Care Agencies must look for a software platform that will meet most of their requirements without manual workarounds. This article shares some of the top 10 features to improve operational efficiency by using an integrated platform.

With falling reimbursement rates, the rollout of PDGM, and increased compliance, Home Care Agencies are under pressure to do more with less. Improving the health of the revenue cycle is a complex process that needs both caregivers and financial administrator to work in synchrony to achieve optimal results. An integrated platform that covers all processes including intake, authorization management, scheduling, billing, and collections, and provides features to manage the revenue cycle requirements of these processes is a must for ensuring optimal reimbursements.

The best is yet to come for Home Care Agencies. With many studies now pointing to a revival and boom phase coming up for Home Care agencies, we bring your tips and techniques to manage your organization’s online presence. Unfortunately, most home care agencies invest little time and effort in building their online presence. It is not as expensive as you think. Here are six things you can do to improve your agency’s brand.

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.

Rising demand for home healthcare services, changing business models, the shift of higher acuity care services to the home, changing role of home care software to improve agency operations, and the impact of labor shortage on home care are some of the trends that will define home healthcare industry in 2022

2020 and 2021 have been challenging years for home care agencies across the United States. The devastating impact of 2020’s COVID-19 lockdown meant that home care agencies faced a problem they had not experienced ever before. On one side, more patients prefer receiving care at home, on the other side, there are staffing challenges of finding the caregivers to help them cope up with the demand.

Recognize that the needs of Private Duty Nursing for pediatric care are very specific. While this could be a profitable service line, the requirements such as round-the-clock nursing, ability to connect with children, more complex scheduling, and most importantly, the right nursing talent, make this a very challenging area.

Leveraging technology and the right software platform will help Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies to implement strategies to effectively manage Electronic Medication and Treatment Administration and ensure patient safety.