As the healthcare industry evolves, G2 continues to expand its Healthcare categories. In January 2022, G2 launched its Hospice software category.
Meeting the needs of hospice care providers
Hospice software is designed to meet the particular needs of hospice care providers. Healthcare professionals can now capture, track, and analyze critical data with software tools and apps—enabling them to find efficiencies, boost savings, and improve the quality of the care they deliver.
What is Hospice Software?
Hospice software helps manage clinical, financial, and administrative data for hospice agencies, allowing hospice staff to dedicate more time toward patient care. The software captures and consolidates administrative data, and stores records and analytics centrally. This helps managers and administrators access the data in a few clicks.
Hospice software is a specialized subset of home health care software or private duty home care software. Hospice agencies need to invest in software that allows users to easily access end-of-life documentation, such as advance directives and physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST).
Home health care software is used by medical and non-medical providers to provide short-term and long-term care to patients within the comfort of their own homes. Registered nurses, rehabilitative therapists, home aides, medical social workers, and case workers can all leverage home health care software to coordinate business operations, centralize processes and workflows, optimize scheduling and caregiving duties, and simplify claims and insurance billing.
Private duty home care software streamlines private duty home care agency management, patient care management, and chronic condition management for homebound patients. Private duty home care is a specific subset of home care, and many home health care agencies provide home health care services; private duty home care can also be called long-term nursing.
Hospice software helps simplify clinical processes for managing patient care and improves efficiencies in staff scheduling. These tools can help with administering medication, dietary plans, Medicare tracking, billing compliance, social service paperwork, among other capabilities.
One of the main differences between hospice software and home health care software or private duty home care software is that it is primarily used by hospice professionals.
How does hospice software help?
Hospices must strike a balance between running a business smoothly and effectively and delivering quality care with compassion. Hospice software plays a key role in achieving these goals by capturing and consolidating administrative data and making it accessible to managers and administrators. Finding efficiencies is crucial: the less time spent searching for clinical, financial, and administrative data, the more time hospice staff will have to dedicate to looking after patients.
Hospice software has a number of important benefits, including:
- Automation and streamlined access to critical patient information
- Increased collaboration across care team and paperless workflow
- Less time spent on administrative procedures and more time on patient care
- Improved documentation, reporting, and analytics
These tools function on a smartphone, tablet, or laptop, and they also allow providers to work from anywhere and access patient information on the go.
What’s next?
At G2, we will continue to adapt to market changes, which is reflected in the G2 category taxonomy. We’re constantly working on more content and research to familiarize buyers with the market and its evolution. We also expect to continue identifying more products that can be a suitable fit for the Hospice category.
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Rachael Altman
Rachael is a research analyst at G2 with a focus on healthcare and education. Prior to joining G2, she has worked as an academic librarian and in research and business development at law firms, accounting firms, and nonprofit organizations. She has a BA and MA in English and Creative Writing and an MS in Library & Information Science. Outside of G2, Rachael is a career coach, yoga and meditation teacher, and jewelry maker.
