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Throw Away Your Map and Pushpin There is an Easier Way to Schedule for Home Care Agencies

By AlayaCare / January 10, 2015

During a recent deployment, as we typically do, we had a usability session with a home healthcare agency Intake Coordinator who showed us her all too common setup. Pre-AlayaCare she jumps between their current solution and Google Maps, entering the client info into Google Maps. She then compares it with a map she has printed…

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Telehealth Doesn’t Have to Be This Hard

By AlayaCare / October 23, 2014

Finding a needle in a haystack is a problem many of us don’t literally have to worry about it in our day to day lives. In fact, I’m pretty confident no one has ever had to find a needle in an actual haystack – that being said we are constantly tasked with analogues problems in…

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Why UX Matters: Navel Gazing and the Dangers of Home Health Care Software Design

By AlayaCare / October 20, 2014

Too often companies have succumb to the temptation of mirror based design thinking. This can often result in a solution looking for a problem, a convoluted and meandering path to simple straightforward tasks and worse a capital investment that will require a write off in 1-2 years when the solution is scrapped. Here are some…

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Data is the New Oil, Why Big Data’s Time is Now for Home Healthcare

By AlayaCare / October 11, 2014

We are not the first to say “Data is the new oil”, and we won’t be the last. As the cost of data storage shrinks, the amount of data created by the digital economy is growing at exponential speed. Many industries are leveraging this new resource to uncover knowledge that would have been impossible, let…

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A New Dawn For Home Health Care

By AlayaCare / September 7, 2014

The home health IT sector is on fire. From the groundswell of “quantified self” wearable devices to more and more medical tests becoming consumerized in easy to use, portable form factors. Worldwide revenue for home health care devices and services will rise to $12.6 billion in 2018, up from $5.7 billion in 2013, according to…

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Is the Cloud Safe for Home Healthcare… Yes!

By AlayaCare / September 2, 2014

Is my company’s data safe in the cloud? Is my personal health data safe in the cloud? More and more of our data, both personal and business, is being stored and manipulated in the cloud by SaaS (Software as a Service) software providers from Google and Dropbox to big name Electronic Health Records and Accounting…

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