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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…
Read MoreKeys 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…
Read MoreBecome 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…
Read MoreFinding 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…
Read MoreEase the Pain of Home Care Clinical Audits
Audit: a term that in itself can instill fear, anxiety, and distress by sheer mention alone. Perceived by most as painful and costly in both time and energy, the process of collecting data, ensuring the compliance of prescribed services and analyzing overall patient outcomes, doesn’t exactly sound appealing. Combine that with the scrutiny of other…
Read MoreSelf-Directed Care: Empowering Individuals & Maximizing Efficiencies
Earlier this year a thought provoking government-commissioned report on home care in Ontario was released, highlighting the struggling state of the system and its urgent need for restructuring. Titled “The Care We Need”, the critical report prompted the provincial government to release a new funding program as a direct response, implementing a series of pilot…
Read MoreAlayaCare’s Latest Integration – CHRIS
AlayaCare has recently integrated the Client Health and Related Information System (CHRIS), a web-based patient information management system designed and built by the OACCAC and CCACs. Using eReferral functionality, generally through the Health Partner Gateway (HPG), CHRIS provides CCACs with the following information: Patient assessments, Patient Document Library, and Bed Board Management (BBM). By integrating…
Read MoreSaint Elizabeth Selects AlayaCare as a Home Healthcare Software Partner
TORONTO, May. 27th, 2015 CNW — AlayaCare, a Canadian-based home healthcare software company, is proud to announce an agreement with Saint Elizabeth, a leading national provider of home and community care. Saint Elizabeth will use AlayaCare’s cloud-based software to support its private home care practice across Canada.
Read More3 Incredibly Important Reasons Why Home Care Families NEED More Touches
Recently my family had the terrible, but all too common experience of dealing with the sad and lengthy road leading to the eventual passing of my wife’s grandfather. A proud, successful business man was reduced to a considerably depressing existence due to the ravages of dementia and other health complications. Fortunately the home care provided…
Read MoreWhy Your Home Care Software Solution Should Reside in the Country you Provide Care
5 Considerations Why Your Cloud Based Home Care Software Solution Should Reside in the Country Where you Provide Care Pew Research Centre, an authority on measuring personal information and privacy, routinely polls US audiences and reports that Health Care and medication information ranks second behind only a social security number in terms of ‘very sensitive’…
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