Home Care Software

4 Ways to Reduce Software Training Time for Your Home Care Agency

4 Ways to Reduce Software Training Time for Your Home Care Agency

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.

Benefits of Effective Care Planning in Home Health Care

Benefits of Effective Care Planning in Home Health Care

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.

How Home Care Agencies Can Leverage Technology to Do More with Less

How Home Care Agencies Can Leverage Technology to Do More with Less

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.

Strategies to Improve Employee Retention in Home Care

Strategies to Improve Employee Retention in Home Care

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.

Key Performance Indicators for Home Care – Clinical and Quality of Care

Key Performance Indicators for Home Care – Clinical and Quality of Care

This blog will discuss Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Clinical and Quality of Care and why they are critical for effectively managing Home Care Agencies.

Key Performance Indicators for Home Care – Scheduling and Employee Utilization

Key Performance Indicators for Home Care – Scheduling and Employee Utilization

This blog will discuss Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Scheduling and Employee Utilization and why they are critical for effectively managing Home Care Agencies.

Overtime Pay for Home Care Workers – Implementation and Tracking

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.

Best Support in Home Health Care Software: CareVoyant on G2

Best Support in Home Health Care Software: CareVoyant on G2

Discover why CareVoyant has been named the Best Support, Leader, High Performer, and Easiest to Do Business With in the latest rankings on G2.com home healthcare software. Choose excellence for your home care software needs.

Six Steps to Improve Clinician Utilization for Home Health Care Agencies

Six Steps to Improve Clinician Utilization for Home Health Care Agencies

Improving operational efficiency in intake, scheduling, clinical documentation, and quality assurance will improve clinician utilization, quality of care, and the bottom line of Home Healthcare Agencies.

Right eMAR/eTAR Software for Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies

Right eMAR/eTAR Software for Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies

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.

Scheduling Efficiency for HCBS and Private Duty Non-Medical Home Care Agencies

Scheduling Efficiency for HCBS and Private Duty Non-Medical Home Care Agencies

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 Tools for Home Health Care Agencies

Care Coordination Tools for Home Health 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.  

Essential Features to Track Narcotics Counts in Private Duty Nursing Software

Essential Features to Track Narcotics Counts in Private Duty Nursing Software

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.

Best Practices to Monitor Controlled Substances (Narcotics) in Private Duty Nursing

Best Practices to Monitor Controlled Substances (Narcotics) in Private Duty Nursing

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.

Effective Intake Process for Revenue Cycle Management

Effective Intake Process for Revenue Cycle Management

Effective Intake Process plays an outsized role in Revenue Cycle Management. Collecting timely and accurate information at the point of referral and intake will help Home Care Agencies to reduce denied claims and improve reimbursement time and cash flow. Home Care Agencies must leverage technology and integrated intelligent automation to improve intake efficiency and enable their staff to do more with less. Improving cash flow will help agencies continue providing quality care and improve patient and employee satisfaction.

Four Tips for Enhancing Your Home Healthcare Agency's Online Presence

This blog post will go over some of the key approaches like growing the social media presence, optimizing website listings, running efficient AdWords campaigns, and evaluating and analyzing results for Home Healthcare Agencies.

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