January 01, 2022
CareStat expands its home health data to now include skilled nursing analytics to help hospitals build strong relationships with post-acute partners

CareStat, a software platform that connects post-acute providers with hospitals/ACO, has added reports and analytics to include data from Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs). The previous version of CareStat included data only from home health agency (HHA) partners. Now health systems can proactively manage both their SNF and HHA networks to facilitate more effective care planning, quality oversight, and total cost-of-care management.

Skilled Nursing , Product Update ,
July 19, 2021
IntelliLogix Dashboard - Your Favorite New Tool is Now Live

This powerful new tool gives you intuitive widgets for a bird’s-eye view of performance with drill-downs to more detailed reports. Complete with adjustable widget parameters for a personalized analysis of what’s most important for you. Drag, drop and resize widgets for a fully customizable dashboard experience.

Skilled Nursing , Product Update ,
June 09, 2021
New Unplanned Rehospitalization Report Released

SHP is excited to announce a valuable new report available in our IntelliLogix solution for skilled nursing facilities. The Unplanned Re-hospitalization Trend Report is a tool designed to help organizations monitor their unplanned re-hospitalization rates by category and over time. We hope these insightful analytics will help facilities to pin-point risk factors and identify the best course of action for improvement.

Skilled Nursing , Product Update ,
July 20, 2020
Release: COVID-19 NHSN Report

This new report helps long-term care and skilled nursing facilities analyze your NHSN weekly data and compare with county, state and national averages.

Skilled Nursing , Product Update ,
July 15, 2020
Release: COVID-19 NHSN Weekly Data Survey Tool

The new COVID-19 NHSN Weekly Data Survey gives you the power to easily create and manage surveys. It walks you through survey questions based on the four Pathways outlined by NHSN—Resident Impact and Facility Capacity, Staff and Personnel Impact, Supplies & Personnel Protective Equipment, and Ventilator Capacity & Supplies.

Skilled Nursing , Product Update ,
April 07, 2020
[Updated] MDS Scrubber COVID-19 Update

In response to recent CMS announcements regarding COVID-19, Team TSI has instituted additional coding alerts that are designed to inform providers to potential issues related to COVID-19 and updated CMS guidelines or waivers that may have an impact on MDS coding as well as resident care and services. These alerts are in no way meant to suggest or imply a change in coding is warranted; simply to alert providers to review the most recent CMS guidelines and waivers that may be in effect.

Skilled Nursing , Product Update ,
March 18, 2020
MDS Scrubber—COVID-19 Update

In response to recent CMS announcements regarding COVID-19, SHP has instituted additional coding alerts that are designed to inform providers to potential issues related to COVID-19 and updated CMS guidelines or waivers that may have an impact on MDS coding as well as resident care and services. These alerts are in no way meant to suggest or imply a change in coding is warranted; simply to alert providers to review the most recent CMS guidelines and waivers that may be in effect.

Skilled Nursing , Product Update ,
January 13, 2020
New PDGM Period and Stay Detail reports released

SHP is pleased to announce a new suite of financial reporting to help home health agencies improve efficiency and maximize margin under the PDGM. The new PDGM Stay Detail and Period Detail reports show patient data within PDGM Core Categories at the home health stay level, and at the 30-day payment period level. They help guide visit utilization management, LUPA tracking, margin analysis, efficiency of functional improvement, and much more.

Home Health , Product Update ,
January 13, 2020
SHP’s HHRG Worksheet redesigned for PDGM

SHP is pleased to announce the release of our completely redesigned HHRG Worksheet tool. Since HHRGs have been completely overhauled with PDGM, SHP has took the opportunity to re-engineer the report to support the new payment rules and highlight potential revenue opportunities within the PDGM components. It is designed to explore the variety of factors which contribute to the HHRG score for patients. It provides a complete look into the HHRG, Case Mix Weight, and the Total Revenue for the payment period.

Home Health , Product Update ,
January 13, 2020
SHP’s treasured Episode Einstein℠ report enhanced for PDGM

Our most heavily utilized report, Episode Einstein℠, just got a major upgrade to support the new payment model. Compare multiple assessments in a home health patient’s stay to monitor patient progress and improvement opportunities. The marriage of clinical and financial details make this a great case conference tool.

Home Health , Product Update ,
October 30, 2019
PDGM Preview Report Released

SHP is pleased to announce the release of the PDGM Preview report to help home health agencies prepare for the January 1st, 2020 implementation of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). The PDGM Preview report provides a view into your 2019 payment episode information, as applied to PDGM 30-day payment periods, and grouped by HHRG. The report includes period breakouts by distribution, visit information, and LUPA rates, with state and national benchmarks.

Home Health , Product Update ,
September 19, 2019
SHP releases new PDGM feature: Unacceptable Diagnosis Alert

SHP is pleased to announce the release of a new Unacceptable Diagnosis Alert to help home health agencies prepare for coding requirement changes under PDGM. Come January 1st, 2020 primary diagnosis codes will be categorized as either “acceptable” or “unacceptable”. Our new alert will notify users whenever an unacceptable primary diagnosis code is entered. This will help agencies train their staff now to be ready for PDGM and avoid the delays and lost time associated with claim rejection and recoding.

Home Health , Product Update ,
September 19, 2018
SHP Releases New Hospitalization Patient Detail Report

We are excited to announce the release of the Hospitalization Patient Detail report to our SHP for Agencies customers. This powerful new report provides a complete picture of the home-health stay for any patient, including: hospitalization risk, transfer history, and discharge details, with one row of data for each SOC/ROC to any available Transfer/Discharge. Also included are indicators for 30-Day Rehospitalizations, 60-Day Hospitalizations, Emergent Care, Hospitalization outcome details, and more.

Home Health , Product Update ,
August 27, 2018
SHP updates the Hospice Dashboard, including a new widget

SHP recently made improvements to the hospice portion of the Dashboard to include a new widget and two new preconfigured views that display quality measures for all of the same data types as the Hospice Scorecard, including: Provider, Case Manager, Team, Primary Diagnosis Category, and many more. Aside from the ability to group by all of our standard data types, the new widget can also be configured to report on all 22 of the HQRP and CAHPS quality measures available in our reporting.

Hospice , Product Update ,
August 09, 2017
SHP to adopt NHIA’s new Home Infusion Patient Satisfaction Survey

SHP is happy to adopt the new NHIA infusion industry standards to support the data initiative for patient outcome improvement. As a result, we will be replacing our existing proprietary home infusion patient satisfaction survey with the new survey, approved and issued by NHIA, for all our current and future customers. The adoption of the NHIA survey will allow home infusion pharmacies to compare their performance to a standardized national benchmark. This will be a great benefit to home infusion pharmacies as they work with referral sources and payers, and will aid their internal organizational efforts to improve performance.

Product Update
July 11, 2017
SHP and Brightree Improve Quality of Patient Care and Reimbursement

Brightree LLC, a leading provider of cloud-based software, and Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP), a leading provider of data analytics and benchmarking to post-acute care providers, have released Integrated Alerting to further enhance the existing interface between two companies.

Home Health , Company News , Product Update ,
June 28, 2017
SHP Expands Product, Launches Hospice Scorecard Suite to Help Improve Quality of Care

Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) has released a new first-in-class comprehensive Hospice Scorecard Report suite. As hospice providers and their referral sources continue their focus on quality and with the upcoming public reporting of hospice scores, the need for real-time data increases. SHP’s Scorecard suite will enhance hospice customers’ capability to measure, manage and report on quality metrics.

Hospice , Product Update ,
June 10, 2016
Next generation of SHP's Scorecard Suite has been released

"We developed the new Scorecard Report Suite so that our customers can make better business decisions and improve their performance more quickly," said Rob Paulsson, President of SHP.

Home Health , Product Update ,
November 11, 2015
SHP Releases Two New Home Health Star Rating Reports

With the addition of Star Ratings to Home Health Compare this year, agencies now have an indicator of overall clinical quality.

Home Health , Product Update ,
September 17, 2015
SHP Announces ICD-10 Readiness and Product Improvements

By configuring our product in the new ICD-10 coding environment, we hope that our customers can continue to deliver the best clinical outcomes and get properly reimbursed for their hard work.

Home Health , Company News , Product Update ,
June 22, 2015
Updates to Clinical Executive Advantage Report for Home Health Released

As one of our most popular reports, the Clinical Executive Advantage serves as a starting point for high level data analysis across a wide spectrum of clinically oriented home health quality metrics.

Home Health , Product Update ,
December 30, 2014
SHP Releases New HHRG Worksheet

To help Home Health agencies navigate the changing PPS landscape, SHP has released a new version of the popular HHRG Worksheet.

Home Health , Product Update ,
September 11, 2014
New SHP Visit Utilization by DX and HHRG Report Helps Agencies Control Costs

True performance improvement happens when you marry data with high accountability and embed it in your daily process. The right tools make it possible.

Home Health , Product Update ,
August 08, 2014
SHP Releases Real-Time Hospice Quality Reports

SHP's new real-time Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) reports help you get ahead of the curve and proactively intervene where improvement is in order.

Hospice , Product Update ,
June 20, 2014
SHP Releases New Telehealth Reporting Functionality

SHP clients now have even better insights into how well telehealth technologies are reducing visits without compromising quality, lowering hospital readmissions rates, controlling costs, improving clinical outcomes, and leading to a better patient experience.

Home Health , Product Update ,
December 18, 2012
SHP Alerts™ Integrated into Point of Care

To drive compliance even more, SHP is working with select home health vendors to integrate these edits directly into their software.

Home Health , Product Update ,
December 18, 2012
SHP Releases Private Duty and Palliative Care Surveys

These surveys were developed after 18 months of hard work and collaboration between industry experts and SHP and will be ready for January 1, 2013.

Product Update
February 17, 2012
New Hospitalization Report Saves Time and Drives Improvement

Too few people have too little data on what actually drives patients into the hospital.

Home Health , Product Update ,
September 01, 2011
The Dollar Figure Behind SHP Alerts

The report contains a line item list showing where all the Case Mix points are being generated – essential for staff education and financial management.

Home Health , Product Update ,
February 21, 2011
HHCAHPS Administration Tools from SHP

Two HHCAHPS administration tools are now at your disposal to make this possible.

Home Health , Product Update ,