Clinical Documentation
The next frontier: Agentic AI takes home-based care from insight to action
AI has already proven it can help teams make sense of complex clinical and operational data. But in an industry where staffing is stretched and regulations leave no margin for delay, the next step isn’t more insight — it’s action. That’s where agentic AI comes in, systems that can plan, reason through, and execute multi-step…
5 tips to improve and better utilize your home-based care plans
Poorly managed care plans were in the top 10 complaints from care providers and nurses in home care organizations, according to Home Care Pulse. Home Care Pulse’s podcast episode, Vision: The Home Care Leaders Podcast, featuring AlayaCare’s Senior Product Manager Lorraine Toderdash, featured advice on how to improve and better utilize care plans to increase…
How client-reported data can help care workers make better health care decisions
The voice of a client is essential to understanding whether home care services are making a difference. Client-centered care has taken the spotlight when it comes to discussions of quality. Home care agencies are now adapting to providing care that is responsive and respectful of individual client preferences and values, which guides clinical decisions. Agencies…
Key performance indicators: The power of data in home care
To those who are not executives or data analysts, key performance indicators (KPIs) are an out-of-focus business term that is easier to avoid than to understand. But the reality is that KPIs are an everyman’s tool and are only as useful as employees outside the data world understand them — and see how their efforts…
4 ways to improve home care inefficiencies with technology
With the growing demand for home-based care services, organizations are struggling to keep up with repetitive tasks and inefficiencies that can be costly in terms of time and resources. You want your employees in the head office doing only the tasks that involve building a relationship and making decisions. When you look at what’s happening…
Home Infusion Therapy… Without the Paperwork
For patients with conditions that require medication to be infused by needle or catheter, staying at home for treatment is optimal. Not only is it more comfortable and more manageable for them, but infusion-based treatments in hospitals and outpatient clinics — particularly for those who suffer from chronic disease — is an unsustainable expense that…
How Technology Can Help Eliminate Home Care Employee Churn
Across the United States, 16 percent of residents are over the age of 65 — and by 2060, it’s expected that one in four Americans will be in the retirement zone. This aging society presents challenges and opportunities across a wide swath of industries and sectors. It’s hard to imagine a market more invested in…
Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Software, Our Ultimate Guide
What’s the best way to pay those who deliver home care services? The issue remains elusive when it comes to firm answers. It also remains a point of seemingly endless debate and consternation, which isn’t surprising when so much money, deep implications, and sensitivities collide in one discussion.
Introducing the AlayaSphere: AlayaCare’s Third-Party Integration Listing
Home care organizations looking to grow in today’s market require a vision that is unique, defendable, and sustainable. They must erect the infrastructure to support that vision, which includes the people of course, but also needs to include technology. Many service provider agencies grapple with the need for change, while not compromising their business-as-usual work…
CHRIS Integration: Updates, Referrals, and Patient Records Directly from the Source
The road to the future of home care is paved with integrated, virtual and collaborative care models. Coordination will remain a major factor in reducing health care expenditures, supporting home care agencies, and vastly improving the patient experience. Silos will disappear, and information will flow securely along the continuum.
Coordinate and Integrate Care With the Right Software
The business of home care is about the well-being of clients, and care for those clients is best provided in a harmonized fashion. Each client, in the role as patient, connects with the health-care system in various ways.
Maximize Clinical Documentation Efficiency with AlayaCare’s Fully Integrated 485
The 485 (a.k.a. the Plan of Care) is the keystone piece of home care that links physicians and agencies. Its purposes are many; a clear and concise perspective of the client health along with diagnoses, medications, interventions, allergies, ADLs, risks and more.
The Benefits of Electronic Point of Care Documentation in Home Care
Due to growing pains of the industry and the subsequent nursing shortage, home care providers are placing more emphasis on ensuring appropriate visit documentation is completed rather than ensuring the information is documented thoroughly and accurately. Specifically, agencies operating on paper processes see more physically damaged or lost documentation, increased caregiver error at the point…
The Impact of Home Care Technology on ADL Tracking and Clinical Documentation
To accurately document the completion of ADLs for a client, there needs to be an effective system. Some home care agencies rely on paper documentation; the clerk/coordinator physically goes through a large amount of visit notes/flow sheets and enters the data into their homecare software solution. No doubt these paper processes are inefficient, outdated, and…
3 Tips for Improving Home Care Client Experience
Many home health care providers have been implementing new strategies focusing on the client first. This means that clients will have more input, choice and control over their home care services and overall care plan or package.
How to Ensure your Home Care Agency is Ready for Consumer Directed Care
With consumer-centred care on the rise across the globe, the aged care sector is getting their gears ready for the latest regulation implemented in Australia – Consumer Directed Care (CDC). Effective February 28, 2017, providers will be required to provide a new level of financial accountability and transparency with consumers. The goal of CDC is…
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…
Top 5 Home Care Agency Processes That Need to Be Paperless
Considering it’s 2017 and we’re well into the digital age, most home healthcare organizations are aware of the benefits of going paperless. The amount of time and money your home care agency can save by implementing paperless clinical documentation, or electronic visit verification (EVV), amongst other paperless processes is substantial. Not only does eliminating paper…
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…
4 Outcome-Based Features Your Home Care Software Needs to Improve Wound Care Management
Wound care is easily one of the largest needs for home care services. According to the Canadian Home Care Association it is estimated that roughly one-third of all home and community care clients have wound care needs and 50% of care delivered by home care programs involves the management of wounds. Home healthcare professionals are faced with…
Improving Home Care Client Engagement with Technology
The importance of communication for client-provider relationships in home health care can’t be emphasized enough. The more engaged and connected clients and their loved ones are, the more likely they will be to follow care worker advice, and to take an active role in their health during, and after home care visits. With the wide…
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…
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…
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…
4 Technology Initiatives to Make Home Care Easier in Ontario Healthcare System
It’s time for a MASH things up a bit in the Ontario Healthcare system!
4 Reasons Why GPS-Enabled Mobile Care Workers are a Home Care Agency’s Best Friend
Mobility in home healthcare is not new. Agencies have dipped their toes in mobility over the past 10 years with varying degrees of dedication – from automated phone clocking systems to care workers and nurses lugging around laptops to the few agencies who have made the investment in mobile phones or tablets for their team…
Data is the New Oil, Why Big Data’s Time is Now for Home Healthcare
We are not the first to say “Data is the new oil”, and we won’t be the last. As the cost of data storage shrinks, the amount of data created by the digital economy is growing at exponential speed. Many industries are leveraging this new resource to uncover knowledge that would have been impossible, let…
Is the Cloud Safe for Home Healthcare… Yes!
Is my company’s data safe in the cloud? Is my personal health data safe in the cloud? More and more of our data, both personal and business, is being stored and manipulated in the cloud by SaaS (Software as a Service) software providers from Google and Dropbox to big name Electronic Health Records and Accounting…