AlayaCare’s platform offers a solution to manage the client lifecycle in an integrated cloud-based system. The AlayaCare platform is for home and community care organizations. AlayaCare was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Montreal.
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WellSky Home Health
Score 9.3 out of 10
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WellSky (formed from the merger of Kinnser Software and Mediware) offers WellSky Home Health (formerly Kinnser Agency Manager), a home health agency management software emphasizing operations automation (e.g. scheduling, intake and electronic visit verification, etc.)
Working in rural NH, AlayaCare is essentially useless in my opinion. It's not a true app and requires communication with the web site in my opinion. Using the option of downloading data is hit or miss as to whether the data will actually sync back to the servers in my opinion. It also won't show you new visits unless you manually refresh the download I've found. I believe there are no option to send or display alerts if your schedule changes. To summarize: Unless you are always in areas with excellent service, AlayaCare is useless and you would be better off manually logging your times using pen and paper I believe. I am often in areas where AlayaCare won't work, yet I can still text, make calls, or visit websites I'v found
I think Kinnser Home Health is wonderful for all small, medium and large size agencies because you can't get any better from an employee perspective, and that is paramount to home health. I also love that you can go between Home Health and Hospice if you have both divisions in one system easily (a toggle button at the top of the screen). I think the financial management system is challenging when you are a large agency, but I still don't think there is anything better on the market, and I would highly recommend it to anyone
The IOS app appears to just be a front end for the web version which makes it ridiculously slow. Logging in, clocking in, or clocking out routinely takes 15+ seconds or longer if you don't have a strong cell connection. Doing a log in and then a clock in will take a full minute as communication with the server is so painfully slow.
The app doesn't know if it's logged in or logged out until you try to do something like clock into a call I've found. The app will look like its clocking you in and 15 seconds later you get an error and are taken to the log in screen. This results in missed clocks, inaccurate times, and endless frustration.
The app regularly loses the face id setting so you have to manually log in and enable face id again.
When you start the app, you have to manually start a log in, because it isn't smart enough to know whether it's logged in or not. Most apps will automatically identify if a login is needed and attempt to log you in via face id.
Using the offline data feature, the data often won't sync with main servers, resulting in lost clocks. New visits won't show up unless you manually download the data again.
The web app is not a responsive design and you lose fields and parts of your view based on your screen size. In 2022, responsive design should be part of any web site, especially those used by businesses.
There are no alert features on the app or web site. There should be options to sent a text or alert if your schedule is changed. Currently, the schedulers have to make a phone call or email the RN to let then know a change has been made. Obviously this is inefficient.
You can't look up a patient's future visits in the IOS app.
The IOS app is essentially unusable if you are on a LTE or have less than 3 bars on 5g
The login screen says "Log in or Log out" Just more evidence that the app doesn't know it's own status.
No setting to change the amount of time before you are logged out. This means you are almost always logged out of the app or website before you even finish a visit.
There appears to be no configuration for the site to work well on a mobile phone. Difficult to capture patient signatures and save charts in progress.
No integration with other software systems, ie; no way to import new users from an HRIS.
Just some standard reports available, no room for any DIY customized reporting.
No way to set job title-specific User Profiles to grant the same user role access to specific disciplines.
Time-consuming and tedious user profile set up, have to remember to go back into the newly created profile to update the demographics of the user. Not an intuitive programming feature - it should be a logical workflow to bring you through the steps of creating a user, assigning roles, and then updating the demographics. Lots of room for user errors in forgetting to finish all three steps.
No tool for a supervisory role for clinicians to be assigned as a lead over a group of other clinicians to ensure that they are completing their charting timely and correctly without giving that supervisor access to the ENTIRE patient roster.
Easy across the board. Multiple disciplines use it from nursing, to therapy. It is usable on the road with a mobile device or in computer. It is user friendly and offers a clean and efficient point of care and documentation center. I would recommend to most disciplines that use it for home health
It's very good. For complex upgrades that I request, they don't obviously get to them immediately, but for all technical issues or training issues they are 100% on target
Clock in/out times in AlayaCare are not reliable due to the apps frequent inability to contact it's servers and it's inability to detect whether it's logged in or not.
Significant nursing hours are wasted waiting on the app to log in or change your clocking status.
