Effective July 1, 2014, hospice organizations will be required to collect and report data related to seven National Quality Forum (NQF) measures. Questions related to pain screening, pain assessment, dyspnea screening, dyspnea treatment, patients on an opioid given a bowel regimen and patient treatment preferences and beliefs/values are included in the new measures. Additionally, […]
Strategic Healthcare Programs, LLC announced this week the release of its tenth automated data interface between its SHPSolutions™ for Hospice platform and selected EHR software applications. Interfaces transmit detailed hospice data to the SHP database, thereby reducing manual data entry by hospice staff. Transmitted data is analyzed and dynamically reported to hospices in real-time […]
A range of products displayed and/or discussed at the recent National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) annual conference is discussed in this article. They include new and expanded visit tracking mechanisms from CareWatch, one of home healthcare’s and hospice’s first telephony service providers. Much detail is provided on use of its EVV Security […]
Beyond what is captured through EHR, Cornerstone Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. had additional paper records dispersed across its organization. What they needed was a tool that could seamlessly bring all of this disparate information together and put it all under one electronic roof. They turned to Allscripts Homecare’s AllDocs. This article describes in […]
We are usually wary of any new home healthcare or hospice software that was built after someone’s request by a developer with deep software expertise but new to our industry. For this reason, when we heard about Hospice Management Suite (HMS) by longtime business software developer Q90 – software specialists with products for facility […]
When curative medical treatment is no longer an option, focus shifts to supporting a patient’s quality of life. Catholic Hospice is a community-based, not-for-profit program, serving Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties in Florida since 1988, that believes responsibility to its employees is second only to its patients. It was with these core values and twin […]
