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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…
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Reducing Hospital Readmissions: It’s Not Just About the Numbers
According to the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI), hospitalizations account for nearly one-third of the total $2 trillion spent on healthcare in the United States, and a substantial portion of these are avoidable patient readmissions. Government reforms such as The Affordable Care Act have been putting increased pressure on hospitals to reduce readmission rates or…
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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…
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What the Home Healthcare Industry Can Learn from Netflix
Inevitably home and community care providers need a software solution to help them do what is most important – deliver quality care to their clients. There are hundreds of home healthcare software solutions on the market that come in in all shapes, sizes and flavors, which enable nurses, care workers, and/or companions to perform services…
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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…
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Medicaid Telehealth Reimbursement Guidelines
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Home Health Value Based Purchasing: What You Need to Know
On November 5, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the final rule for Home Health Value Based Purchasing program (HHVBP). The inconveniently long 250-page document outlines a fundamental shift in the way home care is delivered, marking the beginning of the migration from a fee-for-service model to a new model that…
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How AlayaCare Fits into Your Population Health Strategy
Let us begin by telling you what you already know: our healthcare system is constantly facing challenges. According to the Becker Hospital Review, the vast majority of the top 10 challenges and opportunities for hospitals relate to Population Health. Population Health is a relatively new concept, and only most recently possible because of the growth…
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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…
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