Home Health Software Tips

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...

To be the leading community home health agency in the area you serve is a lofty goal. With numerous competitors from the public and private sectors in most locations, you have to have a plan with very concise goals and activities. Most agencies place their time and effort into day-to-day activities and adherence with compliance with regulations, staffing, etc.  This blog will explore some key strategies to position your agency in such a way that professionals and community members immediately think of your agency for home care and advisement. How is your agency perceived now?   The first step to positioning your agency as an authority is to identify and assess where your agency currently stands with your patience and community. This step can be performed using a variety of methods. Technology and statistics can be valuable tools during this stage. Examine your agency’s strengths, challenges, and weaknesses. Do you need to re-evaluate your mission statement? Work with your team...

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...

Home Health Care Challenges? What are industry insiders talking about in terms of obstacles in the home health care industry in 2023 and beyond? Coming out of a transitional year in 2022, the Home Health Care industry is looking ahead. Regulatory issues like OASIS-E and HHVBP are fresh on the horizon, and a quiet sort of cautious optimism that the worst of the pandemic and its disruptions are behind us is fueling a hopeful renaissance. With these fresh regulatory changes as well as the always present EVV system implementations hitting a fresh round of states, the area of the biggest concerns still seems to hover around the administration side of operating a homecare agency. Recently, Dr. Anna Loengard (chief medical officer at Accent Care) stated that the entire Health Care industry is being bombarded by Electronic Health Records (EHR). Her concern is that industry players need to make certain that this does not affect the goal in providing the proper care. EHR software requireme...