Home Health Software Tips

Caregiver Charting Compliance Tips for Home Health Care Agencies   One of the biggest parts of running a home health agency is ensuring your patient care staff nurses and clinicians are providing accurate home health documentation for the care and condition of clients.  Ensuring solid charting is achieved and that your staff is compliant with charting requirements should be top of mind. In this blog, we'll cover some tips for charting compliance among staff, and discuss the role of having good home health software in that process plays. Why is charting important for home health agencies? If an employee is more aware of why charting is important, they will be more likely to take it seriously and do it correctly. There are many reasons for charting - legal reasons and liability, billing and getting paid by insurance, and tracking the patient’s condition. For instance, i f your company bills for treatment or care but there isn’t proper documentation of that treatment or...

VIRGINIA ELECTRONIC VISIT VERIFICATION The latest buzz out of the state of Virginia is that the  EVV requirement for skilled home health services will go into effect with a soft launch date in the summer of 2023. Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) is a CURES Act requirement for Home Health Care Services (HHCS) effective from January 1, 2023. Virginia applied for and received a GFE exemption for Home health care services. As a result, Virginia planned to implement EVV for Home Health Care Services later in 2023. So when does EVV for skilled Home Health Care services in Virginia Start? The soft launch date for Virginia’s EVV requirement for skilled home health care goes into effect on July 1, 2023.  The full mandate is scheduled to go into effect on Oct 1, 2023. What does this mean for Virginia Skilled care Home Health Agencies? Virginia is a Provider Choice State, meaning home health care agency providers may choose an approved  Virginia EVV system  that best meets t...

How can I Attract Clients with my Homecare Agency Website? It's vital to attract clients for a home healthcare agency to thrive. Getting caught up in the day-to-day challenges of running a home health business is easy. There is a lot of competition in many locations for business. However, home healthcare agency leaders must take time to look at their agency through the eyes of consumers and professionals. A good practice is to analyze your local competition. We experimented to see how various home care agency websites appear to consumers. An experiment to evaluate homecare agencies We experimented to see how various home care agency websites appear to consumers. To do the research, we chose an unfamiliar market to eliminate bias. We looked at a list of agencies provided by the state and selected three agencies that offered a wide array of services. Then we compared the websites, evaluating their perceived strengths and weaknesses. We considered if the site made us want to con...

What are the key ways new technologies are impacting how home health agencies operate? From mobile phones and home health software to EVV and even Chatgpt, in the last 10-15 years technology has moved the home health care industry forward significantly. but what exactly has changed in overall home care day-to-day workflow? While some agencies still operate on paper, many have long abandoned the once-routine idea of paper schedules? For most, it would be hard to go back to that now. In this blog, we'll run down the biggest ways that technology has furthered home care in America. The Age of Digital Caregiving There are a lot of digital solutions available now that allow distant family members and long-distance caregivers to keep in touch with their loved ones without sacrificing the quality of care. Examples such as  Envoy at Home and Electronic Caregiver have changed the spectrum of how communication happens. Tracking key care analytics Technology is enabling home car...