Home Health & Hospice Week
HIS Implementation May Overwhelm Hospices
Take time out to watch new CMS HIS training.
You can now learn more about the Hospice Item Set you must start using July 1.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted its Feb. 4 and 5 training sessions on its Youtube channel at www.youtube.com /user/CMSHHSgov. More HIS information is at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Hospice-Item-Set-HIS.html.
"Who in a hospice is going to abstract all this data from clinical records?" wonders Weather-bee Resources’ Heather Wilson after watching the training sessions. "Will hospices need to hire more people to do this?" she asks on Weatherbee’s blog.
Wilson expects hospices to have to work "to make sure their assessment/clinical tools are adequately capturing the data needed for the HIS," she notes.
Do this: "Have one or more people review the February trainings and get a good handle on the scope of what is required by the Hospice Item Set," Wilson advises. Expect to add staff training and IT work to your schedule in the coming months, thanks to HIS.
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