The AI platform integrates directly into the EMR and provides real-time guidance that reduces OASIS errors by 25% and saves clinicians 22 minutes per treatment start.
ioHealth, an artificial intelligence platform purpose-built for home health and hospice documentation, announced a key competitive advantage in the health tech space: the use of EMR-native AI overlays. This in-workflow approach directly addresses the costly and demoralizing challenge of clinician context switching, enabling agencies to reduce QA rework by up to 40% and significantly reduce burnout.
While competing AI tools require clinicians to leave an electronic medical record (EMR) to check compliance and review scores, ioHealth's solutions, ioAssist and ioDoc, serve as a seamless, real-time overlay. This integration eliminates “double documentation” and the need for clinicians to constantly switch between two screens, a major source of inefficiency and error.
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Home health AI must respect clinicians' existing workflows. Our EMR native overlay ensures guidance occurs at the precise moment of data entry. ”
— David Bell
“Home health AI must respect clinicians’ existing workflows,” said David Bell, CEO of io Health. “When an AI solution requires clinicians to constantly jump back and forth between applications, it introduces a 'cognitive load tax' that negates any efficiency gains. Our EMR-native overlay ensures real-time guidance, education, and validation at the very moment of data entry, keeping clinicians focused on the patient narrative.”
Key achievements of EMR native AI:
Eliminate context switching: OASIS accuracy guidance appears directly within EMR fields, making the process feel more like a native EMR enrichment than an external audit.
True point-of-care (POC) validation: Errors are corrected before data is formally recorded, ensuring documentation is QA-ready on the first pass and reducing interaction between field staff and the office.
Significant time savings: Institutions using ioHealth save an average of 22 minutes per treatment initiation assessment, repurposing valuable time for patient care and directly addressing staff burnout.
Assuring data integrity: Because final, verified data is the only information written to the EMR, agencies maintain a single, clean source of truth, improving audit defensibility and accelerating cash flow.
ioHealth's platform is HIPAA compliant and SOC 2 Type II certified. Built to integrate with leading home health EMRs, it gives clinical and operational leaders the confidence to deploy advanced technology without disruption. The company is encouraging agencies to use online tools to calculate potential ROI and see the financial impact of eliminating documentation hassles.
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