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Hospital-at-Home: A Promising New Option that Improves Value and Quality of Care

Transitioning from curative care to hospice care is often an emotional and sometimes tumultuous transition for patients and family. Facing that a loved one’s condition has declined and is not likely t

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How Caregivers can Manage the Transition from Hospital to Hospice

Transitioning from curative care to hospice care is often an emotional and sometimes tumultuous transition for patients and family. Facing that a loved one’s condition has declined and is not likely t

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Implications of the Final Rule for Hospice Agencies

In the previous section, we reviewed the most recent final rule released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued for 2022. In this section, we will discuss the implications...

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Exploring the Final Rule for Value Based Measurement for Hospice Agencies

Many home health and hospice agencies are considering a permanent move into delivering value-based care. Centered around providing an optimal experience for the patient, value-based care is rapidly ga

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Considerations for Moving to a Value-Based Care Model

Many home health and hospice agencies are considering a permanent move into delivering value-based care. Centered around providing an optimal experience for the patient, value-based care is rapidly ga

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Revenue Cycle Management: How to Optimize Your Claims Management

Revenue Cycle Management encapsulates all of your home health or hospice agency’s billing practices from intake to claims processing. Optimizing the claims management process is an essential part of d

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Revenue Cycle Management: Developing an Effective System to Manage Billing Services

Revenue cycle management is a complex component of effectively managing your home health or hospice agency. An array of factors need to align in order to ensure that your billing process is as clean a

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Revenue Cycle Management : How ICD-10 Coding Impacts RCM for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

The adoption of ICD-10 coding in 2015 has led to an expansive improvement in data quality by improving granularity to foster enhanced specificity in labeling and charting health conditions that lead

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Creating Efficient Systems that Streamline Workflow with Referral & Discharge Management

For a home health and hospice agency, each area needs to operate from a system that is built on efficiency and maximizing productivity. There are so many vital components to running a successful...

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Improve Operations and Promote Retention with Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)

RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) Programs are sweeping the nation as the newest and most logical way to help treat patients at home to deliver the highest quality of care for the lowest cost. Home...

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Building an Effective Claims Management System via Accounts Receivable (AR)

One of the primary challenges that home health and hospice agencies face is collecting payment after services have been rendered. Working with claims, whether it’s through private insurance...

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Streamline Financials with NDoc for Billing Management

Home health and hospice agencies are often faced with the challenge of securing a streamlined and effective billing management system. This system promotes financial health within the agency and...

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How Agencies should Plan to Retain Staff After the Upcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate from CMS Takes Effect

Home health and hospice agencies are continually faced with the challenge of retaining qualified, talented, and loyal staff members. An agency is only as strong as its workforce, and a number of...

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Revenue Cycle Management - How a Streamlined Revenue Management System Contributes to the Health of Your Agency and Your Ability to Retain Good Staff Members

For any home health or hospice agency, finding qualified staff members that can maintain daily operations is critical. Developing processes and systems that support retention begins with identifying..

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Key Perks for Staff that Assist in Building Trust and Ensuring Long Term Partnership

Fostering a healthy and productive work environment is key to ensuring long term partnership with qualified staff. Turnover rates are incredibly high for home health and hospice agencies right now...

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Industry Threats to Staff Retention and How to Overcome Them

Home health and hospice agencies report workforce attrition as a primary concern they face in running their organization. Over the last few years, a surge in turnover has had a tremendous impact on...

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Data Management Technology that Improve Workflow

Data management technology such as an EMR like Thornberry is an essential tool to help improve productivity and streamline operations within a home health and hospice organization. If you are looking

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Acquiring Actionable Insights with Advanced Reporting and Data Analysis

In an era where the acquisition of new data is seemingly unlimited, it is imperative that your agency finds a meaningful way to make sense of the data that you are collecting on a daily basis. Streaml

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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 changi

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Promoting Better Communication through Interoperability

Interoperability is one of the fundamental building blocks of a truly streamlined system. With value-based care at the forefront of the minds of many executives, taking a look at how interoperability

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Workforce Management and the Challenges of Keeping Great Clinical Staff

Home healthcare and hospice organizations face unique and specific challenges in terms of keeping great clinical staff. For agencies that are focused on expansion, it is essential to prioritize staff

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Electronic Visit Verification (EVV)

Home health and hospice healthcare organizations must provide proof of visits utilizing Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) technology. Before EVV was introduced, visits could be logged without any pr

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Value Based Care

According to a new study, over 94% of executives in healthcare anticipate value-based care contracts to become more expansive in the future. This means that the business model for home health and hosp

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Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management to Improve Productivity

The fiscal health of any healthcare organization is directly impacted by the efficiency of its billing process. Determining the efficacy of your organization’s revenue cycle management system will hel

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Thornberry Partners with Qualis to Improve Hospice Efficiencies

LANCASTER, Pa. and ROCKYMOUNT, N.C. November 5, 2021 – Thornberry, a leading home healthcare and hospice care electronic medical record (EMR)software company, today announced a new partnership with Qu

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Customer Relationship Management Tips to Help Home Health Agencies Increase Productivity

Patient loyalty and retention is critical for agencies to remain profitable and competitive in the healthcare industry. Developing a strong relationship between patients, clinicians, and the agency it

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3 Tips to Help Improve Patient Outcomes with Home Health EMR Technology

Clinicians’ satisfaction with their workplace hinges on efficiency and productivity of their workflow, which directly impacts their ability to provide exemplary care to their patients. Clinicians have

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3 Challenges to Hospice and Home Health Agency Optimization EMR Software Helps to Avoid

Agencies face several challenges, from retaining a strong workforce to maintaining compliance with regulating agencies. Technology has assisted in ensuring that several of these challenges are address

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Staff Recruitment & Retention in 2021 and Beyond

The United States—like the world—is aging, a product of fluctuating birthrates and increasing life expectancy.

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How the right EMR can help your agency with compliance [Video]

Both federal and state regulatory agencies are cracking down on fraud in home health, and that means it’s a wise move to reassess your agency’s compliance standards and practices.

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Thornberry Achieves High KLAS Score of 92.2

Thornberry Ltd., creator of NDoc homecare and hospice EMR software, is pleased to announce it received a high overall KLAS score of 92.2 in the homecare category, and a 91 in the hospice category/

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20 Years of Customer Excellence

Thornberry Ltd, a technology company that develops business and clinical automation software for homecare and hospice agencies, marked its 20th anniversary.

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Pain Management Tools for Hospice Providers Sets the Stage for Upcoming Regulatory Requirements

As a leader in software solutions for homecare and hospice providers, Thornberry has released its latest version of NDoc with new pain management tools for hospice providers.

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Enhanced clinical alerts provides more control for patient care

Thornberry Ltd., the makers of NDoc Software and a leading provider of home care and hospice software solutions, announced that its home care and hospice customers will now benefit from enhancements.

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NDoc adds more flexibility to Automated Care Plans

NDoc Software, the leading clinical point of care solution for homecare providers, has launched further enhancements to its unique automated care plan.

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Thornberry Rated #1 in Homecare EMR Vendor Category in Latest KLAS Report

Thornberry has been recognized as the top performer in the “KLAS Post-Acute Care Perception 2012 – High Hopes and Big Plans” report released May 2, 2013.

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Interoperability and Certified Software subject of NAHC Town Hall Meeting

Government continues its push for interoperability in health IT. Yet barriers prevent routine exchange of critical information during transitions in care.

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Certification and Interoperability – homecare’s future depends on it

Town Hall Meeting on Health IT Interoperability, Standards & Certification was moderated by Richard D. Brennan Jr., VP for Technology Policy, Government Affairs, NAHC, and Executive Director, HCTAA.

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NDoc Achieves 2013 Best in KLAS for Homecare

New leaders, new categories, new Best in KLAS segments and a cosmetic overhaul to improve digestibility are some of the highlights of the Best in KLAS 2013: Software and Services report.

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NDoc Achieves 2014 Best in KLAS for Homecare

Thornberry Ltd, provider of home health software solutions for 20 years, today announced that for the second year in a row KLAS Research has awarded NDoc the 2014 Best in KLAS software for homecare.

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ICDLogic and Thornberry collaborate to solve ICD-10 challenges in home health

ICDLogic, an innovator in clinical documentation and ICD-10 compliant solutions today announced its partnership with Thornberry Ltd. to provide CypherLink service inside NDoc®.

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NDoc Achieves 2015-2016 Best in KLAS for Homecare

Thornberry Ltd, developer of award-winning EMR software for homecare, today announced that it has earned the title: Best in KLAS 2015: Software and Services for the third consecutive year.

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Thornberry Becomes First Vendor to Win ‘Best in KLAS’ in Homecare Four Years in Row

Thornberry Ltd.’s EMR software, NDoc®, received the “Best in KLAS” award for the Homecare segment for an unprecedented fourth year in a row.

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National homecare EMR sales leader joins Thornberry Ltd

Thornberry Ltd., provider of homecare software solutions for over 20 years, today announced that Raymond C. DeArmitt has joined the company as Vice President of Sales.

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