CitusHealth Blog: Home Infusion

Robust, effective digital solutions can transform care for providers by letting clinicians quickly gather and share important data. These technology tools offer many benefits for improving care in post-acute settings, including reduced paperwork, more complete documentation and eliminating phone tag. We’ll cover some key areas you should evaluate when considering adopting new tech tools.

Prioritizing care coordination is essential for home health agencies to ensure timely and appropriate care delivery. In this blog, we discuss how better care coordination can help your patients.

Safeguarding patient data is paramount for many reasons, including compliance with federal regulations like HIPAA, avoiding fines or penalties, and ensuring we earn the trust of our care team partners, our patients, and their loved ones. For all these reasons, a robust technology solution that can deliver the highest degree of protection possible is a must in the current security environment.

Home-based care also helps individuals live independently while still receiving the healthcare and support they need. Our platform can help clinical staff work more efficiently and achieve better work-life balance and job satisfaction by enabling secure, real-time communication and fostering a deeper connection between care teams and patients, from intake and admission through the entire patient journey.

Using technology to foster more effective communication and collaboration will continue to be essential for successful home infusion providers. New tools are being introduced that can help manage several manual, time-consuming tasks while helping providers manage documentation, coordinate with multiple stakeholders, track inventory and speed up reimbursement. Here are some ways using technology tools can benefit home infusion patients and staff.

It can pay to evaluate new technology tools that can help you operate more efficiently, improve patient satisfaction and improve your bottom line. Here are five key reasons to embrace new technology.

CitusHealth offers features that can help you streamline workflows and keep information organized. Here are some of the features that can help build the efficiencies you need to support a growing business.

As our population ages and lives longer, the demand for home infusion is expected to increase. In addition, as acute care settings such as hospitals continue to experience capacity challenges, they’re recognizing the value home infusion providers offer in freeing-up beds. Both of these factors mean that home infusion providers will play a key role delivering life-saving medications while keeping patients safe.

New digital communication tools can help enhance the quality of care by efficiently supporting how care is delivered and experienced. These tools help streamline communication for your staff, and help multi-disciplinary care teams more effectively communicate and coordinate patient care. For example, our  patient discussion groups (PDGs) can include a variety of care team members, from clinical to administrative roles. Let’s take a look at how CitusHealth’s PDGs can help streamline your communication processes.

Emergencies pose challenges for anyone. But keep in mind that older populations may face additional challenges that can make these situations even more dangerous, such as limited mobility or impaired eyesight or hearing. These limitations can lead to added stress and the potential to worsen existing health conditions.