AlayaCare blog
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…
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Keys to Generating Innovation in your Home Care Agency
Everyone knows that now is an exciting time to be in the home healthcare industry. Technology has become mandatory for efficient agency operations, providing easier access to information, streamlined workflows, point-of-care transparency, and ultimately improving patient outcomes – all the while operating in an environment where regulations constantly change our business. While some agencies are…
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Does Your Home Care Agency Culture Support Change and Innovation?
Home care agencies have a strong focus on communicating the fact that they provide excellent services and are focused on patient-centred care, but not often do you hear about an agency’s corporate culture; an essential topic for the agency’s leadership and one that could set them apart from other providers. But what is organizational culture…
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Overcoming the Fear of New Home Healthcare Technology
Unless you’re the kind of person who stays immersed in the latest gadgets and technological trends, you likely feel that technology is advancing so rapidly that it can become overwhelming and easy to fall behind. This is no different in home care, as many are intimidated by technology, with fear usually being the driving force…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Native Home Care App vs. Responsive Design Point of Care Documentation
Chances are, right now you’re holding on to the very tool that has the power to improve patient outcomes and refine the home healthcare industry; a mobile device. Mobile health or mHealth, consists of delivering health care services via mobile communication devices such as smartphones, tablets and wearables, and is abruptly changing the way home…
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Innovation: What It Means and Why Home Care Needs It
Innovation; the buzzword that has been sweeping the business industry for some time now. This word is so widely overused and generalized that it’s reached the point where we’ve lost touch with what it actual means to be innovative. Many companies have used the term synonymously with “invention”, using it whenever they’ve simply developed something…
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