Axxess web based and industry leading complete home health care software offers unique benefits to home health agencies to help them improve patient outcomes and maximize their reimbursement. Proper collection and documentation of OASIS (Outcome and Assessment Information Set) data remains a challenge for most home health agencies. With increased regulatory audits and reimbursement cutbacks, the stakes have never been higher. Axxess’ home health software offers practical tools to improve compliance with Medicare guidelines, learn OASIS updates and regulatory changes, document for success, improve comprehension and accuracy in OASIS data collection, improve patient outcomes and maximize reimbursement. Below we highlight 5 ways Axxess’ home health software helps home health agencies succeed.
Built-in OASIS Training Instructions
Axxess’ Agencycore home health software incorporates Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) specific instructions for each OASIS item. This unique feature offers relevant guidance to registered nurses and therapists during the completion of the OASIS assessment. For experienced clinicians, it offers ongoing training opportunities on the most current CMS guidance for the successful completion of the OASIS assessment. For nurses and therapists new to the OASIS assessments, it offers item by item instruction that establishes the background for the understanding required to complete the OASIS assessment in accordance with regulatory requirements outlined by CMS.
Built-in Diagnosis Coding and Lookups
Axxess’ Agencycore complete home health software is designed to be user-friendly for the home health clinician especially while completing the OASIS assessment. ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure codes are incorporated into the software to allow clinicians have immediate and convenient access to the diagnosis lookup either by a description of the diagnosis, procedure or the ICD-9-CM code. Home health nurses and registered nurses are able to code to the highest levels of specificity and receive the maximum reimbursements from the proper selection of the case-mix codes.
Generate Care Plans (485) from OASIS Assessment
Axxess’ Agencycore home care software incorporates all items of the CMS 485 Plan of care into the OASIS assessment thereby allowing home health nurses and therapists the ability to generate care plans tailored to the patient’s needs from a complete assessment. Throughout the OASIS assessment, the care plan items are introduced at the relevant section of the OASIS assessment and clinicians are prompted to provide responses that aid the generation of the care plan. This unique feature offered by Axxess’ Agencycore home care software allows clinicians to complete the assessment and care plan requirements in one simple step and in less time. Clinicians get to focus on patient care and not paperwork. Upon completion of the OASIS assessment, clinicians are able to review the generated care plan and revise as needed before completing and signing the care plan (485)
Diagnosis-Based Teaching and Intervention Guides
By incorporating diagnosis-based teaching guides in the skilled nurse progress notes and OASIS assessments, Axxess’ Agencycore is the first home health software to provide home health nurses with instant and convenient access to information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language they can understand. With this integrated access, home health nurses can learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find out the meanings of words, or view medical videos or illustrations. They can also get links to the latest medical research on several topics or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.
Home health nurses nationwide that utilize Axxess’ Agencycore Home Health Software can now enjoy the benefits of having instant and convenient access to teaching guides based on patient diagnoses while completing their OASIS assessments.
Axxess Agencycore home care software offers extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 800 diseases and conditions. There are directories, a medical encyclopaedia and a medical dictionary, easy-to-understand tutorials on common conditions, tests, and treatments, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and non-prescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. The information is updated daily.
Convenient Access to the Medication Profile
Axxess’ web based home health software offers convenient access to allow nurses to update the medication profile from within the OASIS assessment. Completing an OASIS assessment means the care plan, and medication profile are automatically updated in accordance with CMS regulations. Axxess home health care software provides a convenient lookup of all medications, their dosage and classification for the benefit of home health clinicians. The medication list is updated regularly from the Food and Drug administration (FDA) databases, so home health nurses enjoy access to the latest information on medications.
