Home Care Software’s All-Encompassing Reports Ensure Care Team Efficacy (Part 2: Population Health and Big Data)
In Sinq’s previous blog, the discussion focused on the multitude of home care software companies that offer basic platforms that appeal to home care providers and personal care assistants. With such platforms, tasks are completed, care is verified via technology, and agencies are compliant. However, when an agency limits its care services to compliant-only software, it weakens the goal of balancing quality and cost.
Powerful home care software ensures real-time collaboration, rich and robust reporting, provider portals, unique and customizable dashboards, payer specific data, designer performance charts, payroll and scheduling capabilities and interventions, team discussions, alerts, annotations, and it should be inherently ‘compliant by design’.
The fervor around EVV and compliance made news recently when the Senate passed a bill to delay the mandatory EVV check-in requirement until 2020 for personal care services provided to people with disabilities. The delay marks a victory for both advocates and individuals with disabilities and strengthens their support for a vulnerable population concerned about privacy and independence.
However, home health care agencies must still comply with the January 1, 2019 21st Century Cures Act mandate regulating the use of EVV for personal care services. States may also apply for a good faith exemption to delay the January 1, 2019 deadline for EVV and personal care services.
Some home care agencies may be reluctant to embrace the myriad, confusing technological avenues related to providing services, and some may feel they are being bullied into utilizing EVV – two very prevalent realities within the home care industry. When providers and payers look beyond EVV and compliance, they should see the immense population health potential that can be powered by big data.
Through big data, home health care payers and providers can connect the medical dots that are crucial in preventing decompensation, lowering hospital read missions, becoming proactive and preventative, creating intervention strategies, and at the same time, demonstrating cost-saving opportunities.
However, it is not the data alone that constitutes effective home care software. The true potential of enabling population health is what one does with the data to improve all areas of home care, as well as make sense of the data for future use.
Sinq Technologies works with home care agencies to remove the stigma of the mandate. Through collaboration and transparency, Sinq is amplifying the real-time profile of patients through data. Sinq generates data points and connections that do not exist today. Existing data is enriched, new data is created, and the entire care team has a means to make a difference under the vast-care umbrella. Using such all-encompassing data, a loved one in a home care setting becomes more than a one-dimensional subject as with compliance-only technology.
Care points that were undetected and otherwise not treated by the care team now become a known, treatable part of the care plan. As more data is generated, analyzed, and applied to people aging in place, their care is improved, FWA is reduced, and families, clients, providers, payers become empowered.
About Sinq Technologies
Sinq’s collaborative software technology platform was built with purpose in mind. Sinq’s Care Plan Transparency, Care Gap Management, EVV / EvS, and Change in Care Monitoring makes Sinq’s software stand out within the industry, and with Payors, Providers, and Plans. We can help you become compliant, but our expansive software offers long-term solutions for the betterment of your agency and clients. Call today for more information, a free demo, or a consultation at (847) 325-5007, or visit us at www.sinq.io
More information: Matt Tipples, Business Development
(630) 596-6721
mtipples@sinq.io
No comments:
Post a Comment