Industry News
2020: The Year of Whole-Person Health and Wellness
We have arrived in the opening chapter of this new decade, in the year of wellness. Welcome to twenty-twenty.
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A Holiday Tribute to Home and Community Care Providers
The holidays are a time to celebrate the joys of the season with family and friends – yet they can also introduce high levels of stress and difficulty.
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Giving thanks this National Home Care and Hospice Month
Thanksgiving: a well-earned occasion to celebrate with family and friends and reflect on all the good that we enjoy here in the United States. Unfortunately, for many home health-care workers, the care they provide can often be somewhat thankless.
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AlayaCare Embraces Digital Health Week 2019
It’s Digital Health Week (November 11-17), an annual celebration and recognition of how data is transforming the delivery of care across Canada. It’s also close to our hearts here at AlayaCare, as not only are we invested heavily in digital health, but this awareness week began in 2014 – the same year we did.
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4 Important Predictions for Home Care in 2020
As 2019 enters the home stretch and we look forward to the year ahead, it’s an opportune time to prepare for the issues and trends that will impact the home care industry. The first step, of course, is the forecast.
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Why ‘Net Promoter Scores’ are Important for Home Care Agencies
In the golden age of metrics, there’s another interesting tool that can help your agency collect important data insights: the “Net Promoter Score”, or NPS for short. If you haven’t heard of it already, NPS is a way virtually any company can measure its customer experience. By measuring that experience, it’s then possible to understand…
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4 Trends in U.S. Home Care this Fourth of July
Fireworks, barbecues, baseball games and fairs – Independence Day marks an important time in history that’s celebrated from coast to coast to coast. It’s no time better to reflect on what matters most: family and friends.
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Ontario “Super-Agency” Opens New Important Opportunities for the Home Health-Care Sector
In late February, government officials confirmed the rumours and announced a broad shift in the delivery of health-care in Ontario. As the dust settles, now we know: a new “super-agency” would merge 19 agencies together in one – including the 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) that have long overseen regional health-care and specialized sectors…
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Important Predictions for Home Care in 2019
As AlayaCare has grown, we’ve had the privilege of observing how health systems around the world are organizing to keep seniors and chronically or acutely ill patients receiving care and convalescing in their preferred setting: at home. Everywhere we look, home care is growing at double-digit percentages. A key driver: the fact that delivering care…
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Bill to Delay EVV for Home Care Passes House
For U.S. home care agencies rushing to implement federally-mandated electronic visit verification (EVV) systems, there looks to be some reprieve.
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