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Debra Roe Clinical Systems Specialist at Thornberry Ltd to Present at Virginia Association for Home Care & Hospice's Annual Conference

Debra Roe Clinical Systems Specialist at Thornberry Ltd to Present at Virginia Association for Home Care & Hospice's Annual Conference

Debbie Roe, Clinical Systems Specialist with Thornberry Ltd. will be presenting at the Virginia Association for Home Care & Hospice's 24th Annual Conference and Trade Show.

Lancaster, PA (PRWEB) March 29, 2007

Debbie Roe, Clinical Systems Specialist with Thornberry Ltd. will be presenting at the Virginia Association for Home Care & Hospice's 24th Annual Conference and Trade Show held April 2-3rd in Williamsburg, VA.

Thornberry Ltd., a home health software company and developers of NDoc® an information management system for home care agencies and hospices, will also be exhibiting at the Virginia Home Care Show. Thornberry's NDoc® suite of integrated products for the home healthcare and hospice industry provides the healthcare industry with management software to help agencies improve agency outcomes at the point of care.

Debbie Roe will present a session titled "How implementing an electronic documentation system helped achieve a deficiency-free survey," based on her 25 years experience in a certified home care agency, up till the date she joined Thornberry in July, 2006. Debbie will share her agency story and the dramatic change that occurred following the implementation of an electronic documentation system.

The session will explore the challenges facing an agency using a paper based documentation system, how management practices and performance improvement can be enhanced by implementing an electronic documentation system, and the positive affects of automation on patient care.

Before joining Thornberry Debbie worked for the Ocean County Board of Health in NJ heading the task force that selected NDoc as their home health software. Debbie was responsible for the implementation and training for the new system. Now, Debbie works closely with Thornberry customers and staff to help ensure the quality and effectiveness of NDoc implementations. She is directly involved in implementation, training, documentation and quality assurance.

The show is the largest gathering of home care industry leaders in Virginia. The conference gives home health professionals the opportunity to learn about new services in the home healthcare industry and make new business connections.

Conference attendees will be able to demo NDoc at the trade show. Attendees will be able to learn how the management software is helping agencies to improve patient and agency outcomes. Thornberry has products installed in more than 40 locations and supports over 1300 users nationwide.

About Thornberry
Thornberry Ltd., based in Lancaster PA, is developer and marketer of intelligent, leading-edge management information systems for the home healthcare and hospice industry. With a heritage of offering customer-centric solutions since 1992, Thornberry and its best-in-breed technology partners are dedicated to building home health care management software solutions that solve real problems and ready homecare agencies for the introduction of universal electronic records and regional health information organizations (RHIOs). Thornberry solutions are designed by end users as well as information systems professionals and solidly user-tested and approved to readily match users needs. For more information visit www. thornberryltd. com

About Virginia Association for Home Care
VAHC was founded in 1983 by members who encouraged the development and delivery of high quality, fairly-priced home care services throughout Virginia. In meeting this goal, the association membership seeks to establish and maintain the highest possible level of public confidence. For more information visit www. vahc. org.

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