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Home Care Software Solutions is joining forces with PPS Plus Software and announces the integration of the PPS Plus OASIS Analysis Web Services with CareSmart AMS™, providing a best-in-class tool home health care agencies will utilize to receive a more accurate Medicare reimbursement, increase the quality of outcome reporting and deliver proper care for patients.
Try PPS Plus Free for 30 Days
CareSmart AMS clients can try PPS Plus free for 30 days by simply registering and attending the introductory webinar.
Webinar Date: September 26, 2012
Webinar Time: 12:00 pm EST
Home Care Software Solutions, Inc. provides integrated home health software solutions with CareSmart AMS software.
Looking for software or billing solutions for your home health or hospice agency?
Check out CareSmart AMS, EDI Smart Reader, Data Smart Online Backup and CareSmart Billing.
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Sertifi Offers Tips to Improve Home Health Industry
Sertifi, an electronic signature software provider, proposes four ways electronic signatures can benefit the home health industry.
Home Care Software has partnered with Sertifi to provide an electronic signature option for home health and hospice agencies. If you would like more information on Sertifi, contact your CareSmart Software consultant.
Four problems continue to plague home health agencies when it comes to excessive documentation requirements.
Sertifi, a leading electronic signature provider, is spreading the word at health care conferences about its time-saving, hard copy document-reducing options for several required documents, including CMS Form 485 and face-to-face certifications, which are two forms that slow a home health agency’s ability to be paid quickly by Medicare and Medicaid.
Form 485 is generated by home health billing systems and requires a physician signature before Medicare/Medicaid will pay for provided services. Face-to-face forms require physicians to certify encounters with patients before home care services are considered valid and payable.
Electronic signature solutions like Sertifi help resolve the paperwork setbacks. Below are four ways electronic signatures can benefit home health care agencies:
1. Expedite document processing - orders sent by fax or courier tend to experience lag in turnaround time. Sertifi’s electronic signature software tracks documents and enables users to know where they are in the signature process. They also can send reminders for documents that haven’t been signed. Resolving this paperwork process electronically also saves time otherwise spent sending items via the postal service, courier or fax machine.
2. Dedicate more time to patients - time often is spent chasing paper-based documents instead of clinicians and nurses spending time on patient-focused activities. When health care professionals eliminate the paperwork burden, they are able to provide better care to their patients.
3. Eliminate worker headache - physicians frequently are frustrated by having to sign yet another document and sometimes believe the home health agency (not Medicare/Medicaid) creates this extra work. Job satisfaction results in higher worker retention rates. Not to mention, future referrals to the home health care agency could increase.
4. Reduce Costs - manually collecting signatures on documents such as these is thought to cost $10-$12 per document. Costs are reduced to about $3 per document by implementing an esignature solution such as Sertifi, says Hamilton Temple, director of sales for the electronic signature software company.
“Signing documents electronically is convenient and eliminates the loss of paperwork,” Temple says. “By making it a simple process that is hassle-free, it’s no longer inconvenient from a physician's standpoint.”
About Sertifi
Based in Chicago, Sertifi provides leading esignature and Web contracting solutions that enable organizations to close agreements up to 30 percent faster. Sertifi is the industry’s most trusted esign provider and has processed millions of electronic signature documents.
Looking for software solutions for your home health agency?
Check out CareSmart AMS.
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The Sixth Annual National Health IT Week is being held September 12-16, 2011.
This collaborative forum brings together public and private healthcare constituents to work in partnership to educate industry and policy stakeholders on the value of health IT for the US healthcare system. There is no better time for the home health IT community to come together under one umbrella to raise national awareness!
Comprehensive health care reform is not possible without system-wide adoption of health information technology, which improves the quality of healthcare delivery, increases patient safety, decreases medical errors, and strengthens the interaction between patients and healthcare providers.
Here are some Free Webinars you may find of use:
National eHealth Collaborative
NeHC University HIT Orientation
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Time: 1pm ET
Speaker: Gwenn Darlinger, Project Manager - Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Description: HIT Orientation is a comprehensive introduction to health information technology (HIT). Presented by Gwenn Darlinger, Project Manager at Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, the HIT Orientation program will provide attendees with an introduction to HITECH, ONC initiatives and a high-level view of the current HIT landscape in the U.S.
This class is designed for stakeholders who are new to the HIT field, new to NeHC University, or just need a refresher on some of the HIT basics.
Webinar
Access Code: 663 866 965
National eHealth Collaborative
Industry Leader Briefing: Engaging Consumer with HIT
Date: Friday, September 16, 2011
Time: 12pm ET
Industry Leader: Lygeia Ricciardi, Senior Policy Advisor on Consumer eHealth - Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Description: Goal IV of the ONC Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan is to "Empower Individuals with Health IT to Improve their Health and the Health Care System." In pursuit of that goal, Lygeia Ricciardi is spearheading the ONC effort to reach consumers and engage them around the tools and resources available to them through HIT. Lygeia will discuss ONC’s consumer engagement campaign as well as her work with the Consumer Consortium on eHealth and how it will impact and accelerate the use of HIT throughout the U.S.
Webinar
Access Code: 664 546 567
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