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The 10 Percent Club: What to Expect When Working at a Start-Up
Of all start-up companies, ultimately 90% fail for a plethora of reasons no matter how great the initial idea for the business is. The definition of failure can vary depending on what the ultimate goal was/is. However, the ultra exclusive 10% club is comprised of companies that have some key ingredients that are consistent amongst…
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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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Keys to a Quality Home Care Software Experience: UI, Usability & UX
The home healthcare industry is going digital in a big way! Virtually every function of home care is going digital – electronic referrals, scheduling, point of care documentation, EMRs, family/patient portals, and electronic visit verification systems. Moreover, these digital functions are increasingly expected to work across all screens; mobile, tablet, laptops, and even wearables. This…
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Become a Cloud Raker – Why Cloud is the Only Way to Go for Home Care
Around the globe, more and more industries are getting increasingly comfortable with moving their data to the cloud. Recent reforms in healthcare have indicated that it is time for the industry to undergo a technological upgrade, and cloud computing is the leading trend in this transformation. The healthcare cloud market is predicted to grow at…
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Finding the Right Caregiver: Meet your Matchmaker
The ultimate goal of a home care agencies is to provide high quality, reliable care to clients in their homes. In order to meet these care standards, one of the core responsibilities of home care agencies, believe it or not, is matchmaking. Agencies that have the ability to match suitable caregivers to client’s needs according to their…
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