Hospice Item Set (HIS) documents are used to collect and submit data required by the CMS HIS mandate for reporting of the seven NQF endorsed measures. HIS data must be collected at both the admission and discharge and must be completed within 30 days of admission or discharge.
Most of the questions required to be answered by CMS are included in admission documents and the discharge screen, and are highlighted in green for easy identification. Once populated, these questions will flow to the subsequent visit notes to notify other clinician's that they have already been addressed, or if they still need to be answered.
HIS documents can be completed manually without any data flow from other documents, for those agencies that do not use Enterprise Edition clinical documentation.
There are four questions on the documents that require direct data entry and do not flow from sources within the patient's chart. These items are highlighted on the HIS documents in the same light green color as is present in admission documents and the discharge screen.
HIS documents must be clear of errors in order to be validated. If errors exist, the documents will not lock and therefore will not be validated. HIS documents must be validated and locked before they will flow to the HIS Extract.