The Importance of Health Literacy in Home Care
CareVoyant
All-in-One, cloud-based Home Care Software for Private Duty Nursing, Non-Medical, HCBS, Home Health Care Agencies.
Patients often take for granted the importance of understanding the what, when, why, and how of the care they receive. Caregivers are no less guilty – unintentionally, they might miss that a patient has tuned out of a procedural explanation due to a lack of comprehension.
Expanded health literacy in both caregivers in patients can better patients’ health outcomes, decrease emergency room visits by ensuring people seek out preventative care, reduce the number of dosing errors, help patients manage chronic conditions, and increase patient satisfaction.
The best Home Care Software will be easy to use, integrated, support multiple lines of service, and keep your agency compliant on all fronts. The right Home Care Software will also have flexibility, configurability, great support, and understand that optimization is a continuous process as your agency grows.
For long-term success in the home care industry, it is important not just to look for the Best Home Care Software, but also the one that aims to serve as a partner with you to help you grow.
At multiple intervals during long shifts, Private Duty Nurses take vitals and measurements, administer medications and treatments, and document the care they provide. Providing and documenting care repeatedly over many hours can create multiple organizational challenges for Private Duty Nurses and PDN agencies, which, if not addressed correctly, can impact employee productivity, satisfaction, and quality of care.
Private Duty Nursing Home Care Software that utilizes a mobile app can make agencies and nurses more efficient and improve patient care.
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ABOUT CAREVOYANT
CareVoyant is a leading provider of cloud-based integrated enterprise-scale home health care software that can support all home-based services under ONE Software, ONE Patient, and ONE Employee, making it a Single System of Record. We support all home based services, including?Home Care , Private Duty Nursing , Private Duty Non-Medical , Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) , Home Health , Pediatric Home Care , and Outpatient Therapy at Home .
CareVoyant functions – Intake , Authorization Management , Scheduling , Clinical with Mobile options , eMAR/eTAR , Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) , Billing/AR , Secure Messaging , Notification, Reporting, and Dashboards – streamline workflow, meet regulatory requirements, improve quality of care, optimize reimbursement, improve operational efficiency and agency bottom line.
For more information, please visit?CareVoyant.com? or call us at 1-888-463-6797.