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October 15, 2007
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OCS and Press Ganey Partner to Create Joint Analysis of Outcomes and Satisfaction
 

OCS, Inc. and Press Ganey Associates, Inc. have combined their resources to create a broad set of products for the home health care industry.

The Home Health Performance Monitor™ series is the industry's first analysis of interrelated performance metrics integrating patient satisfaction, patient outcomes and financial performance.

The first product, the Executive Brief, analyzes key metrics across multiple areas of agency performance by combining patient satisfaction scores with patient quality outcomes, financial performance and operational practices.

Click here for more information.


Announcing the 2007 HomeCare Elite!
 

OCS and DecisionHealth™ are proud to announce the release of the 2007 HomeCare Elite. The 2007 HomeCare Elite is a compilation of the most successful Medicare-certified home care providers in the United States.

This ground-breaking review lists the top 25 percent of those agencies whose performance measures in quality, improvement and financial performance are the best in the industry.

For more information or to download a copy of the list, please visit our HomeCare Elite page here or email us at 2007HCE@ocsys.com.


Medline to Offer Breakthrough Wound Dashboards in Alliance with OCS, Inc.
 

Medline Industries and OCS, Inc. have collaborated to bring a compelling new set of wound reports to the home health industry. The Medline Wound Care reports were first introduced at the 2007 NAHC Annual Meeting.

These new wound dashboards will be available to Medline customers as a specialized report collection available in Home Health Connection™, the performance analysis program from OCS.

The Medline Wound Care reports will feature agency-level performance indicators and comparative benchmarks for wound care patients, helping providers evaluate and track their wound care programs and supplies.

To read more about the Medline Wound Care reports, click here.


OCS Awarded Fast 50 for the Seventh Year in a Row!
 

OCS, Inc. has been named to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for the Pacific Northwest, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in Washington, Oregon and Idaho by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services organizations.

To learn more about OCS' recognition by Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program, click here.


OCS On the Road
 

Martha Tecca , Senior Director of Hospice and Peer Forum, will be on the road, participating in two hospice centered workshops for the California Association for Health Services at Home. Martha will be presenting "Hospice Benchmarking for QAPI Readiness" on October 16th and 18th.

  • October 16th in Rancho Cordova, at the Marriott Sacramento Rancho Cordova, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
  • October 18th in Ontario, at the Marriott Ontario Airport, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.


October's Informational Product Web Conferences
 

Enroll today in one or more of these informative OCS Product Web Conferences and invite your staff to attend.

These informative OCS Product Web Conferences touch on current issues, topics and trends in the home health, hospice and private duty industries. There is no charge for attending these conferences. Sign up today!

Once registered, dialing and WebEx instructions, including a link to the handouts, will be delivered to your email inbox on the morning of the web conference.

Data Driven Decision Making with PPS Reform Thursday, October 18
10am PDT / 1pm EDT
Enroll now!


Home Health Connection
Tuesday, October 23
10am PDT / 1pm EDT
Enroll now!


OCS-OASIS Reports & Graphs
Thursday, October 25
10am PDT / 1pm EDT
Enroll now!


Are You Ready for the QAPI CoP?
Tuesday, October 30
10am PDT / 1pm EDT
Enroll now!

OCS also offers client centered training sessions throughout the month. These basic training modules are designed to help clients get the most out of the features and reports in OCS applications and to better understand their value in managing day-to-day operations. Please click here for more information.


Tips & Tricks
 

OCS Report Folios are an innovative way of organizing reports in the Connection area of our website. If you have accessed any Dashboard Reports through Connection in the past, you will now notice a simplified way to find the particular report you need.

Click here to find out more!



With the industry's most comprehensive data warehouse of integrated performance measures, OCS Clients consistently rank in the top one-third of all providers nationally.

To find out why, contact us at info@ocsys.com or log on to our web site
at www.ocsys.com.

Until next week,


OCS, Inc.
Leading Healthcare Insight

Phone: 206.325.3396

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