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Ease the Pain of Home Care Clinical Audits
Audit: a term that in itself can instill fear, anxiety, and distress by sheer mention alone. Perceived by most as painful and costly in both time and energy, the process of collecting data, ensuring the compliance of prescribed services and analyzing overall patient outcomes, doesn’t exactly sound appealing. Combine that with the scrutiny of other…
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Self-Directed Care: Empowering Individuals & Maximizing Efficiencies
Earlier this year a thought provoking government-commissioned report on home care in Ontario was released, highlighting the struggling state of the system and its urgent need for restructuring. Titled “The Care We Need”, the critical report prompted the provincial government to release a new funding program as a direct response, implementing a series of pilot…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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