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These are some of the common examples of elderly people suffering from dementia or depression. However, it is difficult to distinguish one from the other, especially if caregivers and family members have no medical knowledge of the two conditions. With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, hospice clinicians can use this opportunity to educate patients and their families on how to recognize the difference between dementia and depression, and how to respond.
Depression Versus Dementia: Which is Which?
Author: Alexis Layug, RN, BSN
Date: May 10, 2022
“My father no longer finds joy in the hobbies he usually enjoys. This has been going on for a few weeks now.” “I think my mother is losing her memory, she sometimes doubles her medication dose to hide it.” “My … Keep Reading
The Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) created a payment system that relies heavily on clinical characteristics to develop more payment categories, shifting reimbursement away from service quantity toward service quality. So what can home health organizations do to properly manage visits per episode by clinical grouping under PDGM?
Four Steps to Manage Visits Per Episode by Clinical Grouping
Author: LaDawn Pierce, RN, BSN, Implementation Consultant
Date: May 5, 2022
The Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) created a payment system that relies heavily on clinical characteristics to develop more payment categories, shifting reimbursement away from service quantity toward service quality. So what can home health organizations do to properly manage visits … Keep Reading
As technology for the post-acute care sector evolves, companies will continue to innovate to address a whole host of business challenges. Axxess has taken a hard look at the burnout situation facing the industry. Axxess has developed solutions that advance beyond common process improvements and focus instead on foundational human needs professionals are experiencing in the field today.
Axxess And Forcura: Innovating for the Humans Involved in Healthcare
Author: Annie Erstling, Chief Strategy Officer, Forcura
Date: April 7, 2022
Editorial note: This guest blog is by Annie Erstling, chief strategy officer for our health technology partner, Forcura. It includes insights from Axxess’ panel discussion during Forcura’s annual CONNECT Summit – “Earning a Seat at the Table: Are Post-Acute Care … Keep Reading
Volunteers are a vital part of the interdisciplinary team (IDG), a Medicare requirement under the Conditions of Participation. A minimum of 5% of total patient care and admin support must be provided by volunteers. While in-person volunteer work is slowly re-emerging with safety protocols in place, hospice organizations should not overlook the value of digital volunteer work.
How to Meet the Hospice Volunteer Requirement in This Digital Age
Author: Amanda Bow, Product Marketing Director
Date: April 5, 2022
Volunteers are the heart of hospice care. In fact, in the United States hospice care began as a volunteer-based movement. Volunteers are a vital part of the interdisciplinary team (IDG), a Medicare requirement under the Conditions of Participation. A minimum … Keep Reading
A physician can connect to a secure, consolidated database through an EMR called a physician portal. This creates an instant path for your partners to send and receive orders and plans of care.
Improve Physician Partnerships with This Feature
Author: Lisa Malone, RN, Clinical Product Manager, Pediatrics
Date: March 22, 2022
Caregivers are not the only healthcare professionals facing extreme burnout. Physicians are slogging through many of the same challenges. Your clients’ care is funneled through a system clogged with an abundance of paperwork and a shortage of staff. Electronic medical … Keep Reading
Industry-wide dependence on interoperability has increased so drastically that remote care monitoring (RCM) is unofficially being called the seventh discipline in the plan of care. Data standards, called the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR), have been developed to define how healthcare information can be exchanged electronically to improve interoperability, with CMS calling FHIR “critical” for seamless exchange. Having a technology partner with a robust interoperability ecosystem has never been more important.
The Goal and ROI of Healthcare Interoperability
Author: Brian Nelson, Product Marketing Manager
Date: March 8, 2022
The healthcare industry and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continue to push and incentivize the use of integrative technology to solve healthcare challenges. Industry-wide dependence on interoperability has increased so drastically that remote care monitoring (RCM) is … Keep Reading
One way organizations can set themselves apart is by offering a comprehensive mileage reimbursement plan. In this plan, caregivers are reimbursed for business miles driven on a cents-per-mile basis.
Retain Employees with a Mileage Reimbursement Plan
Author: Brian Nelson, Product Marketing Manager
Date: February 22, 2022
Care at home organizations are dealing with an influx of resignations on top of an already decades-long healthcare staffing shortage. Dubbed “the Great Resignation,” the numbers associated with the worker scarcity are astounding: one in five healthcare workers have quit … Keep Reading
The use of remote care monitoring has been critical to the health and safety of our patients and caregivers. Technology continues to gain recognition as a solution for the combined shortage of staff and health crisis.
Remote Care Monitoring Part One: A “Lifeline” for Home Health Organizations
Author: Arlene Maxim, RN, HCS-C, Senior Vice President of Clinical Services
Date: February 17, 2022
As we continue to face repercussions of the pandemic, we also face an epidemic related to the shortage of staff in almost every home health organization across the country. There is no exception. Technology has played a significant role in … Keep Reading
These rising costs created the need for pharmacy benefit management companies, intermediaries between hospice organizations and pharmacies that provide medications for patients. Use of a pharmacy benefit manager will help improve hospice operational efficiencies and patient care.
Maximize Your Hospice Organization with a Pharmacy Benefit Manager
Author: Brian Nelson, Product Marketing Manager
Date: February 8, 2022
When a patient is receiving hospice care, one major facet of that care is medications. The average hospice patient receives more than 10 medications a day, which can be immensely expensive for consumers and hospice organizations. These rising costs created … Keep Reading
An easy-to-use home care solution that aligns with industry partners to create a vast interoperability ecosystem will support organizations in achieving these goals.
Five Ways Software Interoperability Enhances Efficiency
Author: Brian Nelson, Product Marketing Manager
Date: February 3, 2022
We know interoperability improves care coordination, a sore spot in many providers’ operations. Yet interoperability impacts more than just care transitions. An integrated operational method enables a seamless delivery of quality care while also improving efficiency and decreasing costs. This … Keep Reading
A continued focus for organizations begins with the initial family and patient conversation. Business development teams can help drive the strategy of care in the home with smooth care coordination by capturing patients earlier within their care journey, with each step made easier through interoperability.
How to Improve Care Coordination Through Interoperability
Author: Christina Andrews, Senior Director of Professional Services
Date: January 18, 2022
From the first bedside conversation to the final bill out the door, when identifying referral patterns and types of patients needed to further clinical education, the cycle of the care journey has gaps that can be bridged by interoperability. Home … Keep Reading
A high-morale company will result in happy and loyal employees who take pride in their work. Employees will be invested in the outcome of their business because their second family is invested in them. Use these five factors to identify the causes of low morale and offer solutions to get your staff invested.
Five Factors to Boost Morale and Get Your Staff Invested
Author: Cyndrille M. Villarosa, BSN, RN
Date: January 12, 2022
For many people, coworkers feel like a second family and the workplace serves as a second home. As such, the work environment should be conducive to employees’ well-being. This second home should be a main source of improving a person’s … Keep Reading
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