Outcome Based Quality Management Services

Successful home care organizations constantly strive to achieve maximum efficiencies and effectiveness in their service delivery. The keys to managing maximum effectiveness include:

• Use of reliable, concrete measures of service outcomes
• Consistent, accurate measurement of outcomes
• Identification and use of best practices to reach desired outcomes

For the first time in its history, the home health care industry has a mechanism to compare agencies on outcomes measures using standardized data from the OASIS data set.

Organizations must utilize a systematic approach to maximize opportunities and minimize risks associated with outcomes measurement.

Organizations must:

• Assure a consistent approach to patient assessment techniques that result in accurate OASIS data
• Provide ongoing OASIS education for clinical staff to assure uniform OASIS documentation
• Identify methods of improving practices associated with the outcomes

Simione Consultants, LLC has developed our OASIS Validation Program to assess the accuracy and consistency of OASIS documentation and implementation of corrective action. Our "Strategies for Developing Best Practices" service will help you improve outcomes for each of the indicators used by CMS. This program includes:

• Best practice protocols designed to improve patient outcomes
• Action plans for effective implementation
• Tools to evaluate best practice program effectiveness
• Monitor for compliance with the protocols

This practical yet successful approach is designed to produce positive results in patient clinical outcomes. It can be modified for the management of outcomes for services outside the Medicare Home Health program.