The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news.February 28, 2024
Advantages of Using a Mobile App for Private Duty Nursing
PDN is a challenging field, and Private Duty Nurses face every-day organizational challenges when providing and documenting care for their patients. Private Duty Home Care Software that utilizes a mobile app can improve communication, increase efficiency, enhance accountability, improve patient and nurse satisfaction, increase client engagement, enhance security, and document EVV data.
Mobile apps help agencies improve their operational efficiency, increase nurse job satisfaction, and provide better care to their patients.
The quote "If it is not written down, it did not happen" applies to medical records and clinical documentation. If caregivers do not complete the documentation when they deliver care at the patient's home, the accuracy and completeness of the documentation can decline significantly due to the decrease in the ability of the brain to retain memory over time.
Home Health Care Agencies should provide easy-to-use and intuitive tools to clinicians and caregivers to enable them to complete the documentation at the point of care. Effective clinical documentation improves the agency's operational efficiency while enhancing the quality of care, patient safety, patient satisfaction, and employee satisfaction.
Home Care will continue to evolve in the breadth and complexity of services offered, along with an enhanced care model enabled by an integrated system of services with seamless transitions. Hence, providers that can better serve both patients and referral sources across the continuum of need will have the advantage. The right home care software will ensure home care agencies can take full advantage of new opportunities.
It’s not uncommon for home care agencies to put off investing in the right software for their agencies. Here are 5 signs that your agency needs to invest in new home care software to take on the changing industry landscape.
Home Healthcare Industry News
CMS Approves Home-and-Community-Based Services’ Demonstration for Oregon
CMS approved a new section 1115 demonstration for Oregon named Oregon Project Independence — Medicaid. Approval of this demonstration will enable the state to receive federal financial participation (FFP) to provide a limited set of home- and community-based services (HCBS) to older adults or adults with disabilities.
Personal care drives healthcare industry spending in 2023: Altarum report
Home healthcare spending grew at a rate of 12.7% year-over-year in December, which far outpaced overall healthcare spending growth of 4.8% in the prior year. Prices for home health services rose 2.8% in 2023, and are predicted to rise another 3.6% by the end of 2024, according to the report.
How A Home-Based Care Provider Weans Itself Off Fee-For-Service Reliance
Not even two years ago, Alivia Care CEO Susan Ponder-Stansel was open and honest about the challenges her organization would face on its journey toward risk- and value-based care.
Now, it’s still on that journey, but much further along. The company’s story is one of promise, one that shows home-based care providers can become risk-bearing entities that have a larger control of their financial futures.
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