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How Home Care Technology Can Improve Care Worker Continuity
With client centred care on the rise in the home healthcare space, providers need to find new and improved ways to deliver personalized care to their clients. With that being said, it comes as no surprise that care worker continuity, or a client to having a consistent principal care worker, is fundamental to this new…
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Consumer Directed Services: Putting the Home Care Client First
Consumer Directed Services (CDS) models have been a concept in healthcare for some time now. The model name varies depending on your location, however the concept remains consistent; Cash and Counselling in the United States, Consumer Directed Care (CDC) in Australia, or Self Directed Care in Ontario. The model was designed to acknowledge that consumers…
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3 Characteristics of a Flexible Home Care Software Solution
As a provider in the home care industry, inevitably you’ve heard about the shifting healthcare landscape to outcome or value-based models, and the product and service advancements emerging to help your agency reform to these changes. If that’s the case, there’s a good chance you’ve spent some time probing the home care software market for…
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Top 3 Home Care Client Complaints & How to Address Them
In the past few years the healthcare industry has been pushing hard on new initiatives to reduce the amount of hospital readmissions in order to cut healthcare costs and improve the quality of care. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), hospitals in the US spent roughly $41.3 billion in 2011 to…
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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…
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Cloud-Based EHRs: A Flexible Approach to Interoperability
As we all know, the home healthcare industry and the delivery of home care are undergoing transformational changes. As an industry that is still widely undigitized, evolving technologies such as electronic health records (EHRs), mobile health (mHealth), virtual health (vHealth), wearables, etc. are rapidly altering home care’s prognosis. These new evolving technologies will give providers…
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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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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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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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