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Mi-Co E-Forms Point of Care Solution for Home Health Fully Compliant for 2008 PPS Changes
| Source: Mi-Co
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC--(Marketwire - December 27, 2007) - Mi-Co, the mobile data capture
software company, today announced that its Point of Care E-Forms Solution,
Mi-Forms for Home Health, is fully compliant with the Prospective Payment
System (PPS) 1.6 specifications approved by the federal Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for January 1, 2008. The OMB changed the
Outcome and Assessment Data Set (OASIS) that provides information needed
for the revised PPS in 2008.
These changes by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of the
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services are the first full-scale reform of
the Medicare Home Health Prospective Payment System since it was introduced
in October 2000.
While many home health care providers have been scrambling to make changes
to paper forms and electronic processes that accommodate PPS, customers
using Mi-Co's Point of Care E-Forms Solution have already been provided
with fully revised and field tested electronic forms that incorporate the
changes to the OASIS data set.
"Mi-Co's homecare customers can be confident that their Mi-Forms E-Forms
for Point of Care correctly reflect the OMB's 1.6 specifications," said
Melissa Neal, VP of Sales for Mi-Co. "Mi-Co customers can continue to
accurately capture OASIS data at the point of care via our easy handwritten
forms interface, have that data checked against the new OASIS rules in
real-time, and then immediately transmit the electronic data through the
system, thereby ensuring proper and timely availability for processing for
payments."
Home health organizations had less than 60 days from the final rules
approval by OMB to change their processes to become compliant with the new
PPS. Ensuring accurate data in OASIS assessments is a critical element of
providing quality of care and receiving proper reimbursements, and directly
affects every Medicare-certified agency's bottom line. Mi-Forms for Home
Health allows agencies to eliminate paper forms in the field while
providing nursing staff with a comfortable, easy-to-use handwritten forms
interface on a Tablet PC. This Point of Care E-Forms Solutions saves time
and money, improves efficiency and accuracy, and provides more timely
access to OASIS data.
About Mi-Co
Mi-Co, the mobile data capture software company, provides digital writing
software that enables efficient, effective data capture and communication
from handwriting. Mi-Co's enterprise Mi-Forms Software System enables
flexible e-forms design for data capture using digital ink and provides
handwriting interpretation, touch-screen input, verification, data
validation and communication of forms-based data for enterprise users.
Mi-Forms supports tablet PCs, UMPCs, digital pens, pocket PCs and signature
capture devices. Mi-Co is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, with
customer service centers in Washington and Colorado. For more information
on Mi-Co, visit www.mi-corporation.com.