OCS HOMECARE LEADS CMS-APPROVED HH-CAHPS VENDORS IN INTEGRATED DATA PREPARATION
New Medicare home health CAHPS requirements have software vendors partnering with stable, reliable, and scalable vendors. MIS companies are taking notice that OCS HomeCare provides best integration options and reporting solutions
Seattle, WA (PRWeb) May 24, 2010 – OCS HomeCare, the national leader in performance improvement benchmarking, reporting, and analytics for home health and hospice organizations, was granted approval to conduct the Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) surveys for Medicare-certified home health agencies. Creating the HH-CAHPS monthly export file is an important requirement for home health agencies to be compliant with HH-CAHPS vendors. But with more than 40 Home Health CAHPS vendors, it is important to note that home health care software companies have realized that they only can focus on a handful of HH-CAHPS vendors due to development constraints.
OCS HomeCare has partnered with a majority of the leading names in home health software solutions to provide HH-CAHPS export file formats for their systems and a higher quality reporting solution for their clients. Software solutions companies need to choose vendors that are stable, reliable, and scalable to meet the demands of so many home health care agencies. OCS works with many industry-leading software companies, including Allscripts, CareVoyant, Cerner, ContinuLink, Home Care Software (HCS) Solutions, Home Healthcare SOS, Homecare Homebase, InterLink, Lewis, McKesson, Procura, Progresa Health Systems, PtCT (Meditech), RiverSoft, Select Data, Spark Technologies, TimeTrack (Professional Computer Consultants), and more.
OCS has created a standardized export file format for software vendors to integrate the OASIS, patient demographic, and services information required by Medicare for HH-CAHPS compliance. OCS also recognizes that home health agencies may want to survey patients beyond the required Medicare and Medicaid population or branch-level reporting, which is why OCS includes this option in our HH-CAHPS solution. For those agencies not utilizing an integrated clinical application, OCS also provides resources to help agencies organize data in preparation for the HH-CAHPS survey.
“The OCS advantage? Some of the biggest names in home health care information solutions have contacted OCS because they know we are the leading name in home health data intelligence,” says Christine Lang, Vice President of HomeCare. “Our extensive industry expertise, SmartLink integration, and current client volume and ability to scale for an even higher number of home health providers sets us apart from an overwhelming number of HH-CAHPS vendors.”
The OCS HomeCare HH-CAHPS solution, Satisfaction Snapshot, is especially significant because it provides home health agencies with knowledge that helps drive decision making and performance improvement. Home health agencies will meet all of the Medicare HH-CAHPS survey and submission requirements, plus get concise monthly reports that offer HH-CAHPS comparisons of quality measures against their peers with the most relevant and meaningful information.
OCS has streamlined its reports to be succinct and comprehensive. The OCS Satisfaction Snapshot delivers an overview that has each publicly reported domain, along with the specific question results, trends, and key benchmarks. We then follow with meaningful and detailed insight into each of the five publically reported domains to provide understanding into sub-population trends, offer ideas for improvement in areas with poor performance, and can share specific comments from patients.
"During an uncertain time of rapid regulatory changes in home health care, providers are looking for expert guidance, peace of mind, and value," says Amanda Twiss, president and CEO of OCS HomeCare. "Satisfaction Snapshot offers an affordable HH-CAHPS solution and the stability that OCS can work with home health agencies of any size."
Home health agencies are required to comply with HH-CAHPS in 2010 or risk a 2 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursement. OCS HomeCare will host a free HH-CAHPS webinar on Wednesday, June 2 at 1:00 p.m. EDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT. For questions or inquiries about HH-CAHPS, write to hhcahps@ocsys.com.
About OCS HomeCare
OCS HomeCare empowers home health and hospice organizations with results-driven data intelligence, plus the largest and most accurate homecare database in the industry. Homecare providers, payers, associations, government agencies, vendors, and consultants all turn to OCS to elevate decision-making, raise the bar on results, and bring home positive outcomes. For more information about HH-CAHPS, please visit the OCS HomeCare website, write to hhcahps@ocsys.com or call 888.325.3396.
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