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Native Home Care App vs. Responsive Design Point of Care Documentation
Chances are, right now you’re holding on to the very tool that has the power to improve patient outcomes and refine the home healthcare industry; a mobile device. Mobile health or mHealth, consists of delivering health care services via mobile communication devices such as smartphones, tablets and wearables, and is abruptly changing the way home…
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Innovation: What It Means and Why Home Care Needs It
Innovation; the buzzword that has been sweeping the business industry for some time now. This word is so widely overused and generalized that it’s reached the point where we’ve lost touch with what it actual means to be innovative. Many companies have used the term synonymously with “invention”, using it whenever they’ve simply developed something…
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Stop, Collaborate, and Listen! The Golden Rules of Home Care Software Training
There are a few ways I could summarize the AlayaCare approach to training new users on our home care software – oddly enough, I did not think they’d have any relation to rap-legend Vanilla Ice. With all the exciting advancements in technology happening everyday – especially in healthcare – it’s no wonder why people (Users) can…
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What Home Health Care Can Learn from Marketing
AlayaCare is an inspiring place to work – a place that has drawn in so many talented and driven employees due to its unique culture and the sheer devotion to changing the face of the home health care industry through better technology. When I started here as a Marketing Coordinator I was thrilled to be…
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Why Today’s Announcement from Apple has a Huge Ripple Effect for Home Health Care
I’m quite confident that September 9, 2015 will be referenced as a key date in the future of virtual care delivery, remote patient monitoring and the future of home health care. Apple’s interest in the health vertical is nothing new, but what struck me as noteworthy was their formal partnership with AirStrip. AlayaCare works with…
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Paperless Home Care: Why Digital is the Way to Go
Home health care is easily one of the most documented and regulated industries, resulting in a vast amount of paperwork. In many home care agencies, paper-related inefficiencies are the source of countless hours and thousands of dollars wasted that could have been spent on more important tasks focused around improving patient outcomes. The overall cost…
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Which cliché best applies to your field staff training –“It’s never too late to learn” or “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”?
Change is hard. Getting people to alter their routines or to adapt new skills is a challenging task, especially when most people are reluctant to do so. The home healthcare industry, specifically, is quite infamous for pushing off reform in order to avoid the hassles of change. Now that the industry is facing dramatic shifts…
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Why Machine Learning Fails… and Why It Won’t in Home Healthcare
As I woke up, coffee in hand, slowly browsing Facebook, Yann LeCun, director of AI research at Facebook, shared a link to this interview of Michael I. Jordan, IEEE Fellow, Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. As the author said, Jordan is one of the world’s most respected authorities on machine…
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Electronic Visit Verification (EVV): Providing the Proof
The benefits of home-based health care are substantial. From cost savings and patient comfort, to the overall improved outcomes across the health care field, home care is changing the industry dramatically. As beneficial as home care is, many agencies have been hesitant to provide home-based services due to the major challenge of ensuring caregivers adhere to…
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Care Worker Mobile App: How to Make BYOD Work in Your Home Care Agency
The “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend is becoming increasingly more mainstream in the business IT world. According to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc.’s Executive Programs, 38 percent of companies expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2016. Another survey conducted by IDC Canada found that almost 81 percent of Canadians…
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