Home Health & Hospice Week

Study finds nearly half of agencies use mobile technology to provide quality service. Paperless home health agencies may seem like something out of a sci-fi novel, but more agencies are using technology to perform and track patient services than ever before. Statistics: More than 65 percent of all agencies now use electronic health records and 40 percent use point of service systems in the field, according to the National Association for Home Care and Hospice’s “The BlackBerry Report: The National State of the Home Care Industry Study.” NAHC and its co-sponsors conducted the study to gauge how often agencies use technology to deliver quality service, and to help agencies prepare for pending health care reform. Researchers also hoped to “identify best practices in home care to allow all home health care providers to realize efficiencies and quality of care to the nation’s most vulnerable seniors,” explained Marcia Reissig, chair of [...]