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March 22, 2015

3 Incredibly Important Reasons Why Home Care Families NEED More Touches

Recently my family had the terrible, but all too common experience of dealing with the sad and lengthy road leading to the eventual passing of my wife’s grandfather. A proud, successful business man was reduced to a considerably depressing existence due to the ravages of dementia and other health complications. Fortunately the home care provided…

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March 14, 2015

Why Your Home Care Software Solution Should Reside in the Country you Provide Care

5 Considerations Why Your Cloud Based Home Care Software Solution Should Reside in the Country Where you Provide Care Pew Research Centre, an authority on measuring personal information and privacy, routinely polls US audiences and reports that Health Care and medication information ranks second behind only a social security number in terms of ‘very sensitive’…

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February 27, 2015

Home Care in the Middle East, So Different and So Similar

As documented on our Facebook and Twitter feeds in late January we had the privilege of visiting Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates to sign with and implement the most progressive agency in the region, Enayati. While nursing is nursing the world over there are some distinct differences to how business is conducted in the…

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February 8, 2015

4 Technology Initiatives to Make Home Care Easier in Ontario Healthcare System

It’s time for a MASH things up a bit in the Ontario Healthcare system!

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February 2, 2015

4 Reasons Why GPS-Enabled Mobile Care Workers are a Home Care Agency’s Best Friend

Mobility in home healthcare is not new. Agencies have dipped their toes in mobility over the past 10 years with varying degrees of dedication – from automated phone clocking systems to care workers and nurses lugging around laptops to the few agencies who have made the investment in mobile phones or tablets for their team…

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January 10, 2015

Throw Away Your Map and Pushpin There is an Easier Way to Schedule for Home Care Agencies

During a recent deployment, as we typically do, we had a usability session with a home healthcare agency Intake Coordinator who showed us her all too common setup. Pre-AlayaCare she jumps between their current solution and Google Maps, entering the client info into Google Maps. She then compares it with a map she has printed…

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October 23, 2014

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…

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October 20, 2014

Why UX Matters: Navel Gazing and the Dangers of Home Health Care Software Design

Too often companies have succumb to the temptation of mirror based design thinking. This can often result in a solution looking for a problem, a convoluted and meandering path to simple straightforward tasks and worse a capital investment that will require a write off in 1-2 years when the solution is scrapped. Here are some…

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October 11, 2014

Data is the New Oil, Why Big Data’s Time is Now for Home Healthcare

We are not the first to say “Data is the new oil”, and we won’t be the last. As the cost of data storage shrinks, the amount of data created by the digital economy is growing at exponential speed. Many industries are leveraging this new resource to uncover knowledge that would have been impossible, let…

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