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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…
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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 No doubt these paper processes are inefficient, outdated, and…
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How Technology Can Improve Hospice Operations and the Overall Quality of Care
Advances in homecare technology have led to exciting possibilities for home health and hospice organizations. By adopting technology solutions, providers are seeing enhancements in their care delivery, and improvements in business results by reducing costs and ensuring accuracy of clinical documentation. Hospice care can be difficult work, and therefore it becomes more important for care…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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AlayaCare and TELUS Health Offer Perspective on What to Expect from the Digital Health Sector
The potential for a new Federal Health Accord, which addresses the criteria required to protect and improve public health for Canadians has been a major focus of conversation in the healthcare industry for some time now. Our federal and provincial leaders are working together to determine national standards, including topics such as the Canada Health…
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OCSA 2016 Recap: Change is on the Horizon But Some Things Should Never Change
With the reintroduction of Bill 210, the Patients First Act, Ontario’s home and community care sector is preparing for system restructuring, new models of care coordination, greater integration between current system silos, strengthened accountability and improved consistency within the home and community care sector. Therefore, it came as no surprise that the theme of the Ontario…
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Switching Home Care Software Solutions: How to Make Your Data Migration Easier
Home healthcare organizations can spend thousands of dollars implementing an electronic solution or upgrading their legacy software platform to run their business on. A home care software solution can be one of the most valuable assets to your organization, so having to uproot and fit all of your information into a new solution can be…
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