Advancing Home Care with EMR Technologies

Home care & hospice are the fastest growing segments of the healthcare industry. This quick growth brings many challenges to the home health industry.

The most evident challenge is that there are 78 million baby boomers out there. Many boomers are already receiving home care while others will be knocking on your doors in the next 5, 10 years and beyond. To support this increase in demand, staffing may be an issue. How will you attract and retain sufficient staff to care for these 78 million baby boomers and maintain positive staff morale? In addition to the boomer challenges, new healthcare initiatives will continue to be implemented and your agency will need to quickly adapt to address these changes.

So, how do you manage these challenges so that you can also take advantage of the growth opportunity? How will you thrive, not merely survive?

The American College of Healthcare Executives argues that the same old tactical solutions will not work - instead, a move up to strategic solutions will be required.

Home health and hospice organizations must critically examine their technology platforms or risk being unable to compete in the marketplace. The solution will be to implement electronic medical record (EMR) technologies that provide more than simply billing and point of care functionality. Agencies will need to turn to robust new technologies that offer additional efficiencies and prepare them for the future.
Experts predict that providers that do not have the flexibility of connected applications and EMR technologies won't adapt to the new patient-centric model. To ensure that you are among the survivors it will be imperative to implement technology that will:

• Improve Patient Care
• Increase Efficiency & Productivity
• Enhance Clinical Outcomes
• Identify Problems
• Quickly Connect to the Healthcare Continuum
• Increase Revenue

Learn how one agency has capitalized on the use of EMR technologies to move their agency forward. They understood the need to increase efficiency and recognized the key was to fully utilize both available and evolving technologies to position their home care agency for the future of home care.

The audio conference, Advancing Home Care with EMR Technologies, shares the agency's story on how they integrated telehealth, lab results, wound photos and transferred hospital referrals directly into their enterprise information system, NDoc. The results: improved patient care, increased staff proficiency and improved agency revenue. You'll also hear about other recent advancements with mobile applications, document management, electronic faxing and signature capture.

Does your current technology platform rapidly connect to other EMR technologies? Can your platform automatically incorporate patient information from many different sources - lab results, interdisciplinary charting, wound photos, diverse providers for a single patient? Our experts can help you effectively implement an EMR technology strategy that will dramatically assist your agency in creating success today and in the future. Call 717.283.0980 or email learnmore@thornberryltd.com.