Category: Personal Home Care
9 Benefits of Electronic Visit Verification
Using Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) technology offers significant benefits for home healthcare agencies, enhancing compliance, efficiency, and quality of care. Direct Care Innovations offers a mobile application to track time and ensure EVV compliance for services delivered remotely in homes or community settings. We understand the value EVV brings and its potential to transform homecare […]
More Support Needed for Family Caregivers
In the fall of 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) revealed its first collaborative and strategic national plan for providing family caregivers with various supports and resources. The 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers consists of several hundred action steps that can help relieve family caregivers of the extra burdens […]
New Quality Measures for Home and Community-Based Services
In July 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced new quality measures for home- and community-based services (HCBS). The home health industry has been consistently regulated by high-quality standards, but the personal home care industry has typically not been governed by quality measures such as these. At Direct Care Innovations, we’d like […]