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The future of home-based care: Predictions for 2025 and beyond

The future of home-based care: Predictions for 2025 and beyond 

By Adrian Schauer / January 7, 2025

Author: Adrian Schauer, CEO of AlayaCare Last year, the home care industry reached a pivotal juncture, defined by a growing emphasis on technology and workforce transformation. Our 2024 predictions highlighted AI-driven workflow automation, value-based care prioritizing outcomes, personalized care via data analytics, the integration of social determinants in home care, and improved data sharing for…

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Establishing a customer-friendly pace of change without sacrificing DevOps practices

Establishing a customer-friendly pace of change without sacrificing DevOps practices — the AlayaCare story

By AlayaCare / December 20, 2024

Author: Jean-Philippe Boudreault, Director of Product and Engineering, AlayaCare This article discusses AlayaCare’s journey and demonstrates how it is possible to slow down releases without compromising DevOps practices. While every situation is unique, we hope that other companies can relate to AlayaCare’s challenges and apply the general principles outlined in this article. The internet is…

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5 Ways for your Home Care Agency to Deal with Margin Squeeze

Successful software implementation: The AlayaCare implementation approach

By AlayaCare / January 18, 2024

Are you looking for a roadmap to implement software successfully? Well, we’ve got you covered! Discover essential strategies to align new software with your business processes, manage the transition, and drive user adoption. Trust us: the success of software implementation is crucial for the overall efficiency, productivity, and growth of your organization. That’s why it’s…

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Predictions for home-based care in 2024 in North America 

Predictions for home-based care in 2024 in North America 

By Adrian Schauer / January 10, 2024

Author: Adrian Schauer, CEO of AlayaCare A year ago, we anticipated the industry gearing up to manage repetitive tasks more efficiently. With economic and resource restraints, we see the industry embracing the opportunity to achieve more with less through solutions such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), highly personalized care plans, the adoption of integrated care models,…

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3 benefits of interoperability and integrated APIs with AlayaCare’s Connector for home-based care

By AlayaCare / November 16, 2023

Home care and home health businesses that use application programming interfaces (APIs) to connect their day-to-day software systems and apps can quickly create and support new experiences and solutions for their clients, employees, and partners. However, delivering and integrating APIs takes an incredible amount of expertise and stamina. According to an article in the Tech…

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The Faces of Our Workforce: Strategies to Recruit and Retain Caregivers [Webinar Recap]

Home-based care marketing: How you can get started with a client referral program

By AlayaCare / November 2, 2023

Referrals can become a large part of your client marketing efforts, and here are some helpful tips to get you started. 6 out of the top 20 marketing sources for home care and home health clients came from healthcare professional referrals. Opportunities to connect with referral sources and networking opportunities are invaluable to your agency’s…

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AlayaCare University: Empower your team with expert-led training

AlayaCare University: Empower your team with expert-led training

By AlayaCare / May 11, 2023

Onboarding and training agency staff can be a very time-consuming process. Agencies currently rely on siloed Learning Management Systems (LMS), creating friction and time lags that prevent staff from getting up to speed quickly with software solutions and other custom-required skills. This in turn drags out the onboarding or upskilling process and prevents agency staff…

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Boost home care referrals by 2x by becoming an HCCSS provider

By AlayaCare / April 14, 2022

Home care referral acceptance rates are at an all-time low. In Ontario, anyone who needs personal support services at home can self-refer to their regional Home and Community Care Support Services unit or be referred by a hospital, physician, another caregiver or even a family friend. And before 2020, approximately 95% of these requests were…

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How the right technology can support recruitment and retention during the caregiver shortage

By AlayaCare / April 1, 2022

At-home care is one of the fastest-growing healthcare segments in North America, even before the pandemic. US Government stats rank home care as one of the US’s fastest-growing occupations, with an additional million workers needed by 2026 (an increase of 50% from 2014). In recent years, the demand for at-home care has increased drastically, however,…

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Trends for home-based care in 2022

By AlayaCare / December 21, 2021

Will history judge 2022 to be the year that our health systems built back better? And that “better” accelerated the shift of care out of institutions and into the home? Or will it be a year where capacity constraints mean we missed a generational opportunity to transform how our societies deliver home-based care in the wake…

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