title: Automating payroll, billing, and medical records. Using technology to do more with less.
abstract: As home care agencies grow, so does the need to streamline the paperwork involved in running an agency. One agency found a way to reduce its payroll, billing, and medical records paperwork by implementing an automated, image-based data collection system that saves time, money, and paper.
authors.affiliation: HealthSpan Home Care & Hospice, Roseville, MN, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vetter
mesh_terms: D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D000555:Ambulatory Care Information Systems / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000191:economics; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003625:Data Collection / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D004282:Documentation / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D018574:Home Care Agencies / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008910:Minnesota; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits