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In the Clinical Records System, the Clinical Assessments module comes with a library of assessment areas that includes:
Each area includes a set of criteria and a standard set of responses, each with a score. When you assess a resident for a specific area, the program adds the scores of all your responses and assigns a total score, which you can compare to a score range that indicates a level of risk or acuity.
The program maintains a history of assessments. The printed assessment can include up to five assessments completed within a specified date range, allowing you to look for trends and changes.
You can add to and edit the library to meet the needs of your residents.
Learn more about Clinical Assessments (pdf) and to see a sample assessment.
In the Clinical Records System for Nursing Care, the MDS processing programs will compare key items in a quarterly MDS with the resident's previous MDS to determine if a decline or improvement warrants a Significant Change Assessment. How HTS tests for a Significant Change (pdf).
The Quality Assurance report generated from MDS records will allow you to choose up to nine MDS responses to compare or contrast. This is a very powerful tool that can be used to track potential problem areas such as those residents who have fallen and are on antipsychotic medications.
From the Clinical: Nursing Care menu choose QA / QI / Survey Reports > Quality Assurance > MDS. The census date determines which records will be considered when the report is generated. Leave today’s date to look at the most recent assessment for each resident, or change the date to look at the most recent assessments as of a prior date. This feature can be used to compare time frames for particular situations.
At Section, press the F2 key to see a list of MDS sections. Choose the section, question, level and the response(s) you want to track. Click Add to Criteria List. The cursor will return to Section so you can choose another question to include.
Finally, click either Must Meet All or Any of the criteria chosen. The report will show a list of residents who met the criteria chosen and will display the date of the MDS used along with the actual MDS responses in history.
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The Human Resources System allows you to record pre-screening and interview details and then transfer this information into the employee record when the applicant is hired. You can access the employee's complete profile and history from one location. Human Resources will integrate with the HTS Payroll System. More about Human Resources (pdf)
MDS Data Logic
Checking allows you to review MDS responses that might
conflict with each other.
Even though CMS does not consider these
inconsistencies to be errors, they will attract the attention of your
surveyors and DAVE 2 reviewers.
The program checks for more than 100 conflicting responses, and provides a variety of reporting formats. You can check open, completed, and submitted assessments, and print or display the results in detail or summary formats. This process will help you locate and correct conflicts that your surveyors might find. It will also help you identify areas to reconsider and perhaps report more accurately to raise your case mix index.
If you already use HTS MDS Processing,
view Data Conflict report samples
(pdf).
Call Lynne Hammond at HTS for
pricing. If you use another vendor's MDS processing software, go to
www.MDSLogicCheck.com
See the Guest
Commentary: Will you find the Discrepancies in your MDS records before
the Surveyors Do? published in the Florida Health Care
Association May 2006 issue of Pulse Magazine.
MDS-RCA Data Logic Checking for Residential Care/Assisted Living reviews MDS-RCA records (for Maine Residential Care facilities) for 70 possible conflicts in responses.
Increase your Reimbursement
Rehab Therapy Time System: This subsystem is designed for therapists to record therapy details immediately after a session with a resident. The system interfaces with the Resident Billing system to automatically create the charge records that can be reviewed at month-end before posting.
It also provides therapy minutes to Medicare A MDS records to recommend Optimum start dates for reporting the greatest amount of therapy. Recorded therapy can automatically complete MDS Section P1b Therapies. View Rehab Therapy Time report samples (pdf).
Manage your Physician's Orders
Remote Physician Orders provides an alternative to the phone/fax order change process. Using the Internet from the physician's office, a physician can view and update a resident's current orders and print a copy of the change. The changes will be printed at the facility so that they can be entered into the resident's order record.
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