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The Future of Telehealth in Home Care
The pace of innovation is impacting modern society like never before — and as sweeping changes, challenges and opportunities continue to impact the home care industry, it’s more important than ever for agencies to remain nimble and able to pivot within this evolving landscape to meet the demands of clients, government bodies and other key stakeholders.
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The pace of innovation is impacting modern society like never before — and as sweeping changes, challenges and opportunities continue to impact the home care industry, it’s more important than ever for agencies to remain nimble and able to pivot within this evolving landscape to meet the demands of clients, government bodies and other key stakeholders.
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What is Machine Learning and What Does It Mean for Home Care?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its rising implications on our daily lives is almost a regular feature in the news these days, with commentary on everything from driverless cars to image recognition software.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its rising implications on our daily lives is almost a regular feature in the news these days, with commentary on everything from driverless cars to image recognition software.
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Give your Home Care Agency the Gift of Business Intelligence
Home and community care providers are transforming their businesses to adjust to the tectonic shifts in the industry. With a major focus for new care models being value or evidence-based reimbursements, providers are required to take a new found interest in data-driven decision making in order to improve client outcomes.
Thanks to electronic systems and cloud computing, harnessing large amounts of client and organizational data has become the norm for majority of providers – but what’s missing is their ability to analyze this data in order to produce meaningful reports and actionable insights.
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Home and community care providers are transforming their businesses to adjust to the tectonic shifts in the industry. With a major focus for new care models being value or evidence-based reimbursements, providers are required to take a new found interest in data-driven decision making in order to improve client outcomes.
Thanks to electronic systems and cloud computing, harnessing large amounts of client and organizational data has become the norm for majority of providers – but what’s missing is their ability to analyze this data in order to produce meaningful reports and actionable insights.
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Switching Home Care Software Solutions: How to Make Your Data Migration Easier
Home healthcare organizations can spend thousands of dollars implementing an electronic solution or upgrading their legacy software platform to run their business on. A home care software solution can be one of the most valuable assets to your organization, so having to uproot and fit all of your information into a new solution can be daunting and complex. It’s not uncommon for agencies to get bogged down by security issues, multiple data sources and low quality data causing them to hang on to their outdated systems rather than implement a new solution and go through a data migration.
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Home healthcare organizations can spend thousands of dollars implementing an electronic solution or upgrading their legacy software platform to run their business on. A home care software solution can be one of the most valuable assets to your organization, so having to uproot and fit all of your information into a new solution can be daunting and complex. It’s not uncommon for agencies to get bogged down by security issues, multiple data sources and low quality data causing them to hang on to their outdated systems rather than implement a new solution and go through a data migration.
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Enhancing Safety in the Home: The Role of Technology
As the senior population continues to grow, so does the need to ensure the delivery of safe care in the home. While people prefer to receive care in the comfort of their own home, this does not always mean their homes are safe spaces.
There are a number of distinct characteristics of the home health care environment that influence both patient and provider safety; home care nurses work alone in the field, patients have a higher degree of independence in a home care setting, there is limited oversight, or variables that are unique to each home.
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As the senior population continues to grow, so does the need to ensure the delivery of safe care in the home. While people prefer to receive care in the comfort of their own home, this does not always mean their homes are safe spaces.
There are a number of distinct characteristics of the home health care environment that influence both patient and provider safety; home care nurses work alone in the field, patients have a higher degree of independence in a home care setting, there is limited oversight, or variables that are unique to each home.
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The Tools Home Care Workers Need to Increase Travel Efficiency
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Demographic Shift: How Will It Impact Your Home Healthcare Agency?
The baby boomer generation has been a buzzing topic of conversation in the healthcare industry for some time now. According to the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), seniors will make up 20% of the population by 2024, and 25% by 2036 at which point they will account for 62% of health costs.
The same goes for the U.S. with the number of Americans 65 or older to increase 73% by 2029, according to Census Bureau estimates.
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The baby boomer generation has been a buzzing topic of conversation in the healthcare industry for some time now. According to the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), seniors will make up 20% of the population by 2024, and 25% by 2036 at which point they will account for 62% of health costs.
The same goes for the U.S. with the number of Americans 65 or older to increase 73% by 2029, according to Census Bureau estimates.
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Why Predictive Analytics Should Be Top of Mind for your Home Care Agency
As we’ve all heard by now, there are numerous benefits to providing care for patients in the comfort of their own homes. Home care has been proven to lower overall costs, and presents the greatest solution for meeting the needs of the rapidly growing senior population.
The industry’s shifting demographic is compelling the rise of value-based and patient-centric care and reimbursement models, which means agencies are turning their focus toward improving patient outcomes.
Lucky for them, with the help of modern home care technology and applied analytics, agencies have the ability to make more informed, data-driven decisions in order to accomplish these outcome goals.
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As we’ve all heard by now, there are numerous benefits to providing care for patients in the comfort of their own homes. Home care has been proven to lower overall costs, and presents the greatest solution for meeting the needs of the rapidly growing senior population.
The industry’s shifting demographic is compelling the rise of value-based and patient-centric care and reimbursement models, which means agencies are turning their focus toward improving patient outcomes.
Lucky for them, with the help of modern home care technology and applied analytics, agencies have the ability to make more informed, data-driven decisions in order to accomplish these outcome goals.
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Revolutionizing Healthcare with Home Telehealth (Webinar Recap)
20 years later, why is home care still not sure?
On March 17th, 2016 we held our most popular webinar ever, featuring our founder and CEO Adrian Schauer and Tim Rowan of Rowan Consulting Associates and Editor of Home Care Technology Report.
The webinar focused on a hot topic for home care agencies this year: how home telehealth and home health software is revolutionizing the healthcare industry. So for those of you who couldn’t attend, here is a quick summary of our presentation and the best practices suggested.
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20 years later, why is home care still not sure?
On March 17th, 2016 we held our most popular webinar ever, featuring our founder and CEO Adrian Schauer and Tim Rowan of Rowan Consulting Associates and Editor of Home Care Technology Report.
The webinar focused on a hot topic for home care agencies this year: how home telehealth and home health software is revolutionizing the healthcare industry. So for those of you who couldn’t attend, here is a quick summary of our presentation and the best practices suggested.
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How AlayaCare Fits into Your Population Health Strategy
Let us begin by telling you what you already know: our healthcare system is constantly facing challenges. According to the Becker Hospital Review, the vast majority of the top 10 challenges and opportunities for hospitals relate to Population Health.
Population Health is a relatively new concept, and only most recently possible because of the growth of information and data available to us through technological advancements. To put it simply, Population Health are the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group. While often geographic, these groups can also be divided by demographics and psychographics such as employees, ethnic groups, the handicapped, etc.
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Let us begin by telling you what you already know: our healthcare system is constantly facing challenges. According to the Becker Hospital Review, the vast majority of the top 10 challenges and opportunities for hospitals relate to Population Health.
Population Health is a relatively new concept, and only most recently possible because of the growth of information and data available to us through technological advancements. To put it simply, Population Health are the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group. While often geographic, these groups can also be divided by demographics and psychographics such as employees, ethnic groups, the handicapped, etc.
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