Hospital Home Health Archives – October 1, 2006
October 1, 2006
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Get more bang for your buck by adopting technological advances
Home health agencies still provide personalized care for patients in their homes, just as they always have, but technological advances have improved the way that agencies manage and documents that care. -
Show payers the value of telemedicine services
Three years ago, Visiting Nurse Services of the Northwest in Mountlake Terrace, WA, began offering telemedicine services to a wide range of patients. -
E-learning makes it easy to meet requirements
No one enjoys watching a video of a talking head and, even if you know the course is required, it is hard to learn the material when you are thinking about fighting traffic to get home or about how boring or out of date the video is. -
Legal Ease: Help patients, caregivers achieve compliance
Compliance by patients and/or primary caregivers with patients' plans of care is another of the "never-ending stories" for home health agencies. -
Improving palliative care for dementia patients
The number of Americans with dementia is expected to double or triple in the next half century as the U.S. population ages. -
States to get report cards on chronic pain policies
States will be granted "report cards" on their policies on pain management in an attempt to show how well -- or inadequately -- U.S. medicine helps cancer patients deal with chronic pain. -
SBAR checklist outlines what to say at handoff
This is the basic framework of the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation) checklist developed by Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA, to improve patient safety when handing off a patient from one clinician to another. -
Seems simple, but culture change can be difficult
While the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation) technique is a fairly straightforward concept, implementing the methodology can be more difficult than you might expect. -
Oxygen study shows true cost of equipment
Nearly three-quarters (72%) of the cost of providing home oxygen therapy to Medicare patients in their homes represent services, delivery, and other operational expenses that benefit patients.