Home Health

Wound care comprises a large percentage of home care clientele. Comprehensive documentation and reporting, qualitative outcomes measurement, rigorous cost containment, improved communications, and patient and family participation in the healing process through education are essential consideration in home health wound care.

Key Features Include:

Comprehensive documentation and reporting
WoundExpert provides the ability to define best practice plans of care for specific wound etiologies, while treatment and wound assessment data provide content for reports to measure the efficacy and efficiency of those care plans. WoundExpert’s outcomes tracking and reports demonstrate measurable decreases in the incidence of wound care interventions and improvements in overall healing outcomes.

Qualitative outcomes measurement
WoundExpert provides the opportunity to clearly define wound types based on assessment data. WoundExpert’s evidence-based protocols for all wound types promote healing best practices across the organization using the most appropriate and cost-effective resources. Ineffective measures are detected quickly, allowing patient care plans to be modified when healing progress is less desirable than anticipated. The real-time availability of wound type and patient healing rates ensures a consistent standard of care across the agency.

Rigorous cost containment
WoundExpert’s incorporation of evidence-based protocols into visit documentation ensures accurate records of products and services used. This facilitates effective cost tracking of care provision, and demonstrates progress toward healing and care plan effectiveness. When coupled with WoundExpert’s unit cost data, financial reports by patient, care provider, and wound type can be created for improved oversight.

Improved communications
Communication with referring physicians and payers is crucial to assure that patient care is appropriate and fairly reimbursed. WoundExpert’s customizable letter templates facilitate improved communications with all providers involved in the patient’s care, and includes digital photos to clearly demonstrate observations made by home health nurse during visits.

Patient and family education
Requisite patient and family member involvement in a patient’s plan of care can be recorded in WoundExpert along with education efforts by the home health care provider. The ability of the patient to perform self-care and adhere to the plan of care with necessary family member encouragement and participation is shown to improve healing outcomes.