Home Health Software Tips

Staying on top of HIPAA compliance in your Homecare agency Are clinicians in your homecare agency accidentally violating HIPAA laws without even knowing it? Preventing some of the most common breaches of client and patient privacy should be top of mind for home health care administrators, and in this blog we'll cover some of the best practices to ensure that. Three ways to avoid HIPAA breaches 1. Eliminate unauthorized access to patient information When your case managers have patients, sharing information about other patients is a HIPAA violation.  Prevent this by utilizing assigned roles in your Homecare EHR software . Empowering clinicians with a tool to select their role upon login and having the dashboard only display information about their patient will lessen the likelihood of a HIPAA violation. Keep your passwords not easily attainable, secure and lengthy to shield protected health information from prying eyes. The more used characters, the harder for hackers to g...

Five trends impacting home health payers and providers  Keeping up with trends in the homecare industry is not only important, but everywhere from water cooler chats in the office to social media healthcare groups, trending topics seem to be all the buzz. In the home healthcare industry, you have to be aware of the industry and localized trends as they can affect your business positively or negatively. Many changes are on the horizon in 2023, and in this blog, we’ll catch you up on the latest in what’s happening this year with providers and payers. Though as a nation we are closer to a “normal” now than in years past, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a major shift in how things are handled operationally in home care at the individual state and the national level. The good thing is so far 2023’s regulatory changes are providing many opportunities for new developments and expansion in your home health business. In this article, we will discuss five of the biggest trends, from staffing sh...