Unlike traditional industries, hospice & palliative care providers have organizational & operational structures that pose unique challenges to alignment. While team members may be philosophically aligned around the idea of providing great personalized care to each patient, each team and team member can often find themselves so focused on their tasks and specific goals that…
Read moreAs some hospice agencies grow bigger, small & mid-size agencies, the heart & soul of hospice, need the right tools to compete. Some interesting takeaways from the LexisNexis report on the Top 100 Hospice Providers of 2019. Click here to view the report. The top 100 hospice providers account for 41.82% of the market. The…
Read moreWe are honored to announce the Hospice Tools Blog has been selected by Feedspot as one of the Top 100 Hospice Blogs & Websites To Follow! The Hospice Tools Blog & Website is currently ranked #24 and we’re sure we’ll be moving up the rankings soon. As a startup bringing a totally new type of…
Read moreThe CAHPS Hospice Survey response rate for the upcoming public reporting period, first quarter of 2017 through the fourth quarter of 2018 (1/1/2017 through 12/31/2018) is 32%. The response rate for the current public reporting period, fourth quarter of 2016 through the third quarter of 2018 (10/01/2016 through 09/30/2018) is 32%. How does your agency’s…
Read moreThe education topic for this edition covers 2 CAHPS Survey questions: Rating of this Hospice 1. Using any number from 0 to 10, where 0 is the worst hospice care possible and 10 is the best hospice care possible, what number would you use to rate your family member’s hospice care? Willing to Recommend this…
Read moreHospice Tools is the flexible EMR built by hospice & palliative clinical & management experts. Our solution delivers a flexible, powerful, and affordable EMR that delivers smooth operations, improved compliance, user-friendly charting, and maximized revenue cycle management. We deliver hospice & palliative agencies the tools to simplify hospice & palliative care management to deliver top…
Read more“The experts do pretty well — they get the answer right about two-thirds of the time,” Surowiecki, the author of “The Wisdom of Crowds,” told CBS News, “but the audience [of Who Wants to be a Millionaire] gets the answer right 91 percent of the time.” Hospice Tools is a revolutionary new EMR. Built by…
Read moreAutomation Alarmists “The next wave of economic dislocations won’t come from overseas, it will come from the relentless pace of automation that makes a lot of good, middle-class jobs obsolete.” – President Obama in his farewell address “I’m running for president because we need to understand that artificial intelligence and robotics must benefit the needs…
Read moreEvery hospice agency does things a bit different. As hospice professionals we know what we know, but we don’t necessarily know what you know or how you do things a bit differently. Before launching Hospice Tools outside of our beta we researched the needs of hospice agencies. We met with a number of hospice pros…
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