Home Health Line
02/06/2025
Your agency's Discharge Function Score is now publicly available on Care Compare, listed as "How often patients were at or above an expected ability to care for themselves and move around at discharge."
01/30/2025
Strong communication is key to ensuring solid scores for the Transfer of Health Information (TOH) measures.
01/30/2025
Here are the three OASIS questions that are the focus of the Transfer of Health Information (TOH) measures. 
01/30/2025
Get a jumpstart on updating your written policies and communicating with vendors about protecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) to keep your patient data secure and help your agency prepare for possible HIPAA updates and increased scrutiny around cybersecurity measures.
01/30/2025
The OCR is seeking public feedback on how new and emerging technologies could impact the protection of electronic protected health information (ePHI). The Request for Information (RFI) included in the proposal asks stakeholders to consider the benefits, drawbacks and unintentional consequences that artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing and augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) use could have on health care cybersecurity.
01/30/2025
Revisit what measures your agency takes to ensure data security in your technology ecosystem to prevent cyberattacks and quickly contain and address breaches that threaten private patient information.
01/30/2025
Hand hygiene, medication safety and patient identification are all on The Joint Commission’s list of National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) for 2025. NPSGs were designed to target identified patient safety issues of significant concern and to reduce that risk through process redesign or focus, says Kurt Patton, MS, RPH, founder of Patton Healthcare Consulting and a former director of accreditation services for The Joint Commission (TJC).
01/30/2025
The public is getting its first look at the home health quality measures around the Transfer of Health Information (TOH) to providers and patients. The national average is 80.13% for the TOH to subsequent providers and 89.57% for the TOH to patients. Results are based on OASIS assessments submitted from April 2023 to March 2024. 
01/23/2025
Make sure you're getting a second pair of eyes on the face-to-face encounter beyond intake to meet strict audit scrutiny. It’s one of the lessons learned from a recent agency audit by the OIG.
01/23/2025
Stress customized and specific education for patients with chronic conditions to increase patient engagement and satisfaction, improving your agency’s outcomes and star ratings in the process.

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