final project
HIT in Home Health Management
Health Information Technology in Home Health Management
Group 6
Pavan Patel
Robert Barrett
Dragana Piljug
University of North Florida
Spring 2014
Abstract
In a diverse, growing and changing industry such as Home Health Care there will be increasing demands for innovations in the delivery of home health care as the industry grows. There exists a number of concerns in providing care for home health care patients such as lack of ability to track patient’s health and hospitalization history, a lack of readily available knowledge in specialty areas, a disconnect in communication among clinical team members, and patients, and a limited amount of time to provide complex patient care. The problems relating to information access and communication inadequacies make it more difficult for care givers to make appropriate clinical decisions that can affect the care and safety of the patients involved. Health Information Technology is an innovation that is designed to address these concerns and promises to improve the processes, quality, and safety of home health care delivery. HIT is at the heart of many solutions proposed to address these problems. It has the potential to solve many of the problems of information access, communication, patient self-monitoring, and management.
Health Information Technology in Home Health Management
Home health care is defined as the delivery of services by nurses, health aides, or therapists in a patient home, provided by home health care agencies (HHCA) (Singh, Mathiassen, Stachura, & Astapova, 2011). Home health care prescribed by a physician is usually covered by third party payers. Medicare Part A and Part B covers eligible home health services like intermittent skilled nursing care, physical therapy, speech-language pathology services, continued occupational services, and more. Services are coordinated and delivered by HHCAs and must be under a plan of care established and
Health Information Technology in Home Health Management
Group 6
Pavan Patel
Robert Barrett
Dragana Piljug
University of North Florida
Spring 2014
Abstract
In a diverse, growing and changing industry such as Home Health Care there will be increasing demands for innovations in the delivery of home health care as the industry grows. There exists a number of concerns in providing care for home health care patients such as lack of ability to track patient’s health and hospitalization history, a lack of readily available knowledge in specialty areas, a disconnect in communication among clinical team members, and patients, and a limited amount of time to provide complex patient care. The problems relating to information access and communication inadequacies make it more difficult for care givers to make appropriate clinical decisions that can affect the care and safety of the patients involved. Health Information Technology is an innovation that is designed to address these concerns and promises to improve the processes, quality, and safety of home health care delivery. HIT is at the heart of many solutions proposed to address these problems. It has the potential to solve many of the problems of information access, communication, patient self-monitoring, and management.
Health Information Technology in Home Health Management
Home health care is defined as the delivery of services by nurses, health aides, or therapists in a patient home, provided by home health care agencies (HHCA) (Singh, Mathiassen, Stachura, & Astapova, 2011). Home health care prescribed by a physician is usually covered by third party payers. Medicare Part A and Part B covers eligible home health services like intermittent skilled nursing care, physical therapy, speech-language pathology services, continued occupational services, and more. Services are coordinated and delivered by HHCAs and must be under a plan of care established and
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