Regulatory Compliance

When running a home health care or hospice care focused agency, a specific focus on regulatory compliance is essential to streamlining operations and improving efficiency within the agency. The changing landscape of clinical requirements that each agency faces is something that Thornberry has anticipated and adapted to in an effort to assist with ensuring complete compliance to all regulatory requirements.

While this compliance is required and mandatory, providing it also ensures that your agency is providing a better quality of care. In an age focused on expanding into value-based care initiatives, patient outcomes and satisfaction is more important than ever before, and regulatory compliance is a key component to achieving the best outcomes for patients.

Proactive Compliance

Thornberry’s EMR solution is ahead of the curve by providing proactive compliance. This compliance helps to eliminate coding errors and provides exemplary audit protection. This in and of itself is a great tool to help streamline operations within your organization to ensure maximized productivity and efficiency. For agencies that want to ensure that they are providing complete and accurate data, the proactive compliance technology is an excellent addition to the agency’s full toolkit of resources.

OASIS and HIS Data Sets

The Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) determines reimbursement offered by Medicare in home health and hospice environments. While decades of use of the OASIS Data has led to debate over the validity and accuracy of the data, a home health and hospice EMR like Thornberry designed specifically to organize and manage that data eliminates some of the inefficiencies noted in prior years by eliminating costly human errors and improving the quality and reliability of the data recorded.

Improve Patient Care by Remaining Fully Compliant

Creating a culture of compliance within a home health or hospice organization requires a lot more than just reading regulations and implementing policies. These compliance policies are all designed to protect patients and providers, and regulatory compliance must be accepted and proactively applied throughout the organization, with all staff members in agreement to continually institute practices that keep the business in compliance. Ultimately, a culture of compliance will result in better patient outcomes and a better environment for staff members.