Barnestorm Boost: OASIS Compare

Your Current Processes:

Review every OASIS one at a time to compare
Clinicians not involved in OASIS review process

Benefits If You Change Your Process:

Much faster OASIS review time
Focus supervisor and case manager energy where it matters: OASIS visits
Reduce overload of clinical supervisors

New Process Details:

Barnestorm allows at-a-glance OASIS answer comparison, so that you can compare answers on a patient’s OASIS documents over time. You may use the comparison by following these steps:

Select a patient.
Click the OASIS button; the OASIS screen will open.
Click the OASIS Compare button on the OASIS screen. The OASIS compare screen (shown below) will appear.

Items that got worse are highlighted in red.
Items that improved are highlighted in green.
Items that are different (this applies to items that are not on a scale but are just listed choices) are highlighted in purple.

You can choose to show a date range or use the default,which is the last 10 OASIS.

This feature is available in Barnestorm Office and Barnestorm POC, on the OASIS screen and at the end of the visit note on OASIS visits.

OASIS Compare was added to Barnestorm on 1/3/2012.

Suggestion on how to start this process:

Train all clinicians who perform OASIS visits on how to use the OASIS compare
Optional: Turn on the global setting in Office to automatically run the OASIS compare after building the OASIS in Point of Care. Office > Security > Global Setting > POC > 0756, change to True to auto run the OASIS compare.
As part of the OASIS Compare training, ensure that clinicians know that they are expected to use the OASIS compare and review their answers in comparison with previous answers and make revisions as needed and rebuild the OASIS after revising.
Inform clinicians that supervisors will be performing the review as well, and messaging them if they need to make changes based on the Compare, so it will save them time to simply complete the compare when they finish documenting each OASIS visit.
Train all supervisors and reviewers on how to use the OASIS Compare and how to Message clinicians with their review results.

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OASIS Compare