Non-medical caregiver reporting helps reduce medical costs and improve health outcomes for patients choosing to live at home.

Timelier reporting tools:

• Reduce ER visits.
• Reduce hospital readmissions.
• Record and send provider required in-home measurements and observations on a more frequent basis.

Adopt tools that cost effectively monitor home care.

• Expand beyond the existing narrowly based EMR/CPT based tools.
• Choose tools that are less expensive and easier to use.
• Accept information from non-medical caregivers.

Effectively integrate Medical and Non–Medical caregivers.

• Require more individualized discharge orders.
• Instruct non-medical caregivers how to properly perform required tests and monitor observations.
• Maintain feedback with non-medical caregivers.