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4 growth strategies for home care agencies from industry experts
Home Health Care News (HHCN), in partnership with AlayaCare, hosted a webinar: “Growth Strategies for Home Care Agencies” on October 4th, 2022. This webinar was focused on home-based care growth plans and what strategies are best for home care organizations to gain financial health and continue to grow and be successful in the industry. Webinar panelists:…
Is your agency keeping up with home care technology?
The demand for change in the industry has been an ongoing topic for years — not only is there a massive need for change, but agencies are also pressured to pick up the pace. Striving to implement regulatory requirements and adapt to new models of care, while keeping up with flourishing innovations and technology, providers…
Big data: How does it affect my home care agency?
Technology is continuously evolving, and new tools are presented to help advance various industries and improve processes. One of the most used technology buzzword affecting the healthcare industry today is “Big Data.” Big data is being talked about more and is all the rage in the technology world, but what does it mean for home…
4 Operational Best Practices for Home Care Agencies
In a time when home care is on the rise and more clients are seeking home care services, you may feel as though your agency is running low on time and resources to keep up with the growing demand. Many home care agencies are struggling to find a way to provide efficient and effective care,…
Home Infusion and the Rise of Virtual Care
At first blush, the specialized delivery of home infusion may not seem to lend itself to virtual care. Yet we think all elements of home care are about to permanently change when it comes to this subject, thrust into the spotlight due to COVID-19.
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.
How to Leverage Digital Patient Engagement Tools to Improve Outcomes
Home healthcare providers have an increased focus on “patient engagement”, or in the words of Judith Hibbard, Ph.D., MPH, “an individual’s knowledge, skill, and confidence for managing their [own] health and health care.” There is plenty of research that supports the notion that patients who are confident and who can participate in their own care…
5 Tips for Improving your Client’s Home Care Experience
Like many other industries, the home care industry is beginning to put the consumer at the core. Care models are becoming increasingly client-centric, meaning customer service will be hands-down the most important role at your home care agency. This is especially true considering the increasing demand for home healthcare services; clients will be attracted to,…
Home care industry contending with Delta variant crisis
This article originally appeared on LinkedIn, by AlayaCare CEO, Adrian Schauer.
What does the future of home infusion look like? A conversation with Option Care Health
While it’s not necessarily a joyful exercise to think back a year ago to the initial weeks of the pandemic, it’s nevertheless a useful place to start as we consider where the home infusion industry is set to go, from the standpoint of remote technology.
4 Tips to Boost Client Demand for Virtual Care Services
The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new imperative for virtual care services. As the health-care crisis continues, and social distancing becomes part of our lives for the foreseeable future, implementing care tactics that keep both caregiver and client safe is of the utmost importance. It’s a topic we’ve covered extensively.
Technology is Needed to Survive in Home Care Industry During and After Pandemic
In order for agencies to successfully scale and adapt to the evolving landscape due to the pandemic, the right technology simply must be in place. It is the key to seizing opportunity and getting ahead. Amidst the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has presented, pieces of business such as keeping staff happy, fulfilling each client’s needs, keeping…
Top 10 Learnings For Home Care Agencies from COVID-19
First, to be clear: we’re all going to be learning about COVID-19’s impact on our industry for a very long time to come. Still, themes are emerging as we move from the acute to the chronic phase of this pandemic.
Virtual care tools can break isolation among home and community care clients amidst COVID-19
The number of adults living alone has continued to climb over the past 60 years, amounting to almost 37 million Americans as of 2019. This represents nearly one-third of all U.S. households.
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…
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.
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…
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.
The Role of Telehealth in a Consumer Directed Care Model
The latest phase of Consumer Directed Care (CDC) implementation for community aged care promotes a market-driven approach that empowers clients; it emphasizes clients’ right to have more visibility, engagement, and arguably the most integral component—choice in the care and services they receive. Most aged care providers are poorly positioned to accommodate this shift due to lack…
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…
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…
Helping Clients Overcome Their Fear of Sharing Health Data for Telehealth
We are pleased to introduce today’s guest blogger Jeff Wise. Jeff is a health care professional who specializes in senior care. If you are looking for premium in-home care for your loved one, please visit Miami Home Care Services’ website.
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…
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…
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…
Tips for Marketing Your Home Healthcare Telehealth Solution
There is a growing demand for convenience and innovation as the industry shifts to value-based care, which has resulted in the increased use of telehealth technology. Telehealth services have been associated with a number of benefits such as lowering healthcare costs, eliminating unnecessary travel and reducing hospital readmissions. However, the real challenge for most providers…
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:…
Telehealth and the Uberization of Home Care
In the past few years, innovative technologies have been sweeping through various industries, lowering costs and increasing convenience to levels we never imagined. Take for example Uber. This highly publicized company infamously transformed the transportation industry by disrupting the traditional taxi service delivery model through client-centric technology. The model shift resulted in more convenient, transparent…
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…
Video Conferencing: Bringing New Meaning to the Nurse Will See You..Now
Telehealth is an incredible solution for healthcare providers to care for their patients more conveniently and efficiently, while driving down healthcare costs. The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) estimates that over 10 million Americans have directly benefited from some kind of telehealth service in the past year. These tools allow patients to stay in the comfort…
Medicaid Telehealth Reimbursement Guidelines
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Seniors & Technology: Putting the Myths to Rest
As technology continues to grow, so does the myth that seniors are averse to new innovations. As younger generations assume that their senior counterparts lack an interest or are incapable of comprehending technology, what occurs is that seniors are discouraged from becoming engaged in the first place. We are not saying that seniors are the…
How Home Care Clients Can Expect Technology to Improve Their Experience
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the use of technology to support the achievement of health objectives has the potential to transform health service delivery globally. Technology continues to have a significant impact on the home care industry, with an increasing number of home care agencies adopting home care software. The introduction of new…
2016: The Year of Telehealth Reimbursement
2015 was a banner year for telehealth and telemedicine. According to the Home Care Technology Report, 200 telemedicine laws were introduced across 42 state legislatures in 2015. According to the American Telehealth Association (ATA), “Telehealth is a rapidly growing field that has the potential to help states leverage a shrinking and maldistributed provider workforce, increase…
Four Ways Telehealth is Improving Home Care Delivery
As I’m sure most of you know by now, the aging population is growing exponentially. The rising demand for home care is becoming more and more appealing to the population due to advantages such cost effectiveness, better psychological impact on patients, and improved recovery periods. In 2014, the Rhode Island Partnership for Home Care reported…
4 New Year’s Resolutions for your Home Care Agency
The end of a year is a great time to reflect on your accomplishments and make improvements to your home care agency. It represents an opportunity to look at the bigger picture and strategize how you can improve your bottom line moving forward into the new year. While the quality of your service and client…
Technology for Seniors: A Holiday Gift Guide
If you’re wondering what the best holiday gift for the seniors in your life could be, consider teaching them how to stay connected with technology. Ample research shows that technology has the ability to help seniors age in the comfort of their own homes, become more socially engaged, and also improve their mental and physical…
5 Ways to Improve your Home Care Agency’s Lead Generation
A major marketing challenge that home care agencies are facing today is competition. With the aging population growing rapidly and the value of the home care industry expected increase to $303.6 billion by 2020 (Zacks, 2015), there will be an increase in new business opportunities, but also an influx of agency competitors; the market is…
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…
The Growth of AlayaLabs
AlayaLabs is growing! So far, we have been focusing on research to get a better understanding of the challenges home health care agencies are facing that we could address with science. Our most recent project was one stemming from a partnership with CBI We Care, where we studied the effects of machine learning algorithms on the care…
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…
Telehealth Doesn’t Have to Be This Hard
Finding a needle in a haystack is a problem many of us don’t literally have to worry about it in our day to day lives. In fact, I’m pretty confident no one has ever had to find a needle in an actual haystack – that being said we are constantly tasked with analogues problems in…