The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. December 20, 2023
Create Better Outcomes with Integrated Home Care Software
Home Care Agencies providing more than one home-based service often use different software solutions for different lines of service. The use of multiple software is not only cumbersome – it is also uneconomical. It leads to operational inefficiency as agency employees must log in to multiple software to perform clinical, financial, and administrative tasks.
Home Care Software that can be used across multiple lines of business can alleviate operational inefficiency by providing a platform that integrates intake, authorization, scheduling, clinical documentation, billing, payments, payroll, and reporting. Integrated Home Care Software should also include EVV, HIPAA-compliant communication, and care coordination so Home Care Agencies can manage all aspects of business with one Home Care Software.
Providing care for children at home poses unique agency-level challenges. Patient intake and authorizations can be more challenging than when treating an adult. The clinical documentation process can be hampered when more care coordination is needed for pediatric patients. Scheduling becomes an issue when demand for pediatric private duty services is high. Adding to this challenge is the need to recruit, train, and retain qualified pediatric private duty nurses.
The right Pediatric Home Care Software can address the unique challenges that Pediatric Private Duty Nursing poses. This blog will discuss how the right software for pediatric private duty nursing agencies can optimize agency management and improve bottom line.
Taking a multifaceted approach to addressing the stress home care workers experience in their professional lives allows home care agencies to retain quality home care workers longer. By prioritizing training, mental health support, feedback, recognition, flexible scheduling, and user-friendly home care software, home care agencies can create an environment that allows home care workers to strike a healthy work-life balance. Ultimately, investing in the health and happiness of home care workers not only reduces their overall stress, but allows them to provide compassionate, quality care to the millions that need it now, and the millions more who will need it in the future.
This blog will suggest strategies that home care agencies can use to promote a more supportive work environment and reduce stress on home care workers.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Home Care CEOs See ‘Reward And Risk’ With AI Technology
Just a few possible uses of AI in home care include improved home-monitoring technology, virtual assistants and marketing solutions, according to Dickison, whose company delivers in-home care services to seniors across a franchise network of more than 300 locations.
Senior Care Providers Face Common Challenges In Continuum Expansions
Strategically, creating a continuum of services allows providers to maintain relationships with clients and patients longer – before their needs become acute, all the way through to end of life. In turn, from a business perspective, this creates revenue stability and increases appeal to payer partners.
ABOUT CAREVOYANT
CareVoyant is a leading provider of cloud-based integrated enterprise-scale home health care software that can support all home-based services under ONE Software, ONE Patient, and ONE Employee, making it a Single System of Record. We support all home based services, including Home Care, Private Duty Nursing, Private Duty Non-Medical, Home and Community Based Services (HCBS), Home Health, Pediatric Home Care, and Outpatient Therapy at Home.
CareVoyant functions – Intake, Authorization Management, Scheduling, Clinical with Mobile options, eMAR/eTAR, Electronic Visit Verification (EVV), Billing/AR, Secure Messaging, Notification, Reporting, and Dashboards – streamline workflow, meet regulatory requirements, improve quality of care, optimize reimbursement, improve operational efficiency and agency bottom line.
For more information, please visit CareVoyant.com or call us at 1-888-463-6797.