To help LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) members choose the best data analytics solution for their needs, we’ve updated the Data Analytics Selection Tool.

We’ve updated the online tools to help providers narrow the many choices available on the market, plus made updates to the white paper with background on data analytics technologies. The product matrix and online selection tool now include three new products.

• CareWork unifies operations with agnostic integration, workflow, and task automation tailored to how providers operate. Combined census, human resources and labor, procurement, financial, clinical metric, and analytics give administration and care operations teams the insight they need to quickly catch problems before they happen and to work smarter, not harder.
• Dimensional Insight provides an enterprise platform that includes integration, key performance indicators, and analytics, as well as the industry expertise and concierge service that teams need to see fast return on investment and make better business decisions. Dimensional Insight was rated the #1 Data & Analytics Platform in the 2024 Best in KLAS Report.
• PointClickCare, a LeadingAge Gold Partner with CAST Focus, provides a leading healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at any stage of a patient’s health care journey. PointClickCare’s single platform spans the care continuum, fostering proactive, holistic decision‐making and improved outcomes for all.

New Case Study

The updated Data Analytics Selection Tool also includes a new case study, which gives a provider’s perspective on using these technologies.

Increasing Efficiencies by Automating Turnover Analytics

Florida-based Beacon Health Management partners with senior health care facility owners, offering facility management to financial services. To reduce turnover, Beacon Health Management analyzes turnover rates by organization and by department and benchmarks turnover results weekly against company averages. By spotting trends, Beacon Health Management can put new processes in place to address potential problems. Yet it had been doing this analysis manually.

After automating the process with CareWork, Beacon Health Management began saving eight to 10 hours per month. Now, the two organizations are looking at ways to empower field management teams to better retain employees—and gather critical information when employees leave, without adding an administrative burden.

Also in partnership with CareWork, Beacon Health Management is working to illuminate the real cost of turnover in the organization by department and role. It is looking at fully loaded payroll costs and factors like separation costs, vacancy costs, and replacement costs. Now with transparency and easy access to turnover and retention results across the organization, leadership can easily see and manage turnover and address issues quickly. For more details on this project, see the full case study.

Benefit from All 10 CAST Technology Selection Tools

For assistance in selecting aging services technologies, check out all 10 LeadingAge CAST Technology Selection Tools. Each follows the same format, with an informative white paper, online technology selection tools, and provider case studies.

In addition to data analytics solutions, the tools cover technologies in the following areas: electronic health records, telehealth and remote patient management, medication management, functional assessment and activity monitoring, shared care planning and coordination, social connectedness and engagement, safety technology, health information exchange, and infection control.