Outdated Credentialing Methods

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As our population ages, the need for home healthcare workers increases. However, patients and families don’t want just anyone coming into their homes. They want qualified, vetted, and credentialed workers. Only then can they have peace of mind.

While home healthcare agencies are required to perform background and license checks on their workers, most agencies use outdated manual credentialing methods, allowing some home healthcare workers to slip through the cracks and into patient homes.

To solve this problem,
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Inefficient and Outdated Credentialing Methods
The future of healthcare is in the home, but credentialing methods for home healthcare workers remain in the past.

Home healthcare agencies are required to have credentials for their healthcare employees in order to provide service. However, most agencies still rely on inefficient manual credentialing methods to perform required the background and license checks on their workers.

As a result of utilizing these outdated methods, an estimated 40,000 home visits are made each day by home healthcare workers who are felons or sex offenders, or who are operating without proper credentials. This is a terrifying statistic.

An additional problem caused by manual credentialing is the difficulty with finding qualified caregivers who match the requirements of open referrals. The process is time-consuming, laborious, and costly, and time is of the essence when home healthcare workers want to help patients, and patients want help.

Credence Works decided that there had to be a better way, so we started developing CredencePlus to address these problems and take credentialing into the
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The CredencePlus Difference
No other competitor offers exactly what CredencePlus offers. Other competitors focus on hospitals and physician groups, but we focus specifically on the home healthcare sector, offering a win/win/win for the employers, employees, and patients.

• Benefits to Employers – CredencePlus gives home healthcare agencies an electronic, efficient, and cost-effective tool to replace existing manual systems. Our software is a HIPPA compliant liability management tool to handle audits by regulatory authorities.
• Benefits to Employees – CredencePlus offers home healthcare workers and clinicians easy-to-use software that simplifies sharing and maintaining credentialing and licensing for multiple agencies.
• Benefits to Patients and Families – CredencePlus offers peace of mind to patients and their families. Our software perform background checks on caregivers and it ensures that caregivers are up-to-date on vaccinations and other industry and agency requirements.

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Credence Works is currently developing the prototype for CredencePlus, and we’re quickly gaining

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