title: Special report: home health agencies. Take the leap from manual to on-line collection.
abstract: Home health agencies, like hospitals, soon will be required to report electronic outcomes to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. However, most agencies are not as advanced in data gathering and benchmarking efforts as are hospitals in general. The following two articles offer tips on conquering the electronic reporting beast and fashioning good benchmarking surveys.
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D005845:Georgia; D018574:Home Care Agencies / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000592:standards*; D009862:Online Systems; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010865:Pilot Projects