AlayaCare

I do not like or recommend this app for patient care. The primary problem is that you cannot access prior data. Unless additional separate charting records are kept - nurses go in ‘blind’ to patient’s health issues & only have access to vital signs & meds. This makes any comparative analysis impossible. The developers don’t even list a stethoscope as a respiratory assessment tool and it has to be written in. It’s pretty obvious that the developers are not medical professionals - but after using this app I suspect medical professionals weren’t even consulted.

Not sure how this app can get a 4.1 rating which it has so many flaws, and looks like a child created the app. So many glitches, but just to start (too many to list and describe) every so often the app has to be deleted and re-downloaded again because every so often you click on the app, tries to load and closes itself. It has happened, on my iPhone and many other devices. I thought it was just me, but other coworkers have encountered the same problem. We started using AlayaCare at the beginning of this year and this is the 10th time I had to delete the app and download it again! (Not counting on the other devices) Ughh so annoying! Update 5/29: few days after I had to delete and download the app! It happened once again!

We have to use this app in my healthcare field job, it is great but I think it should allow access to prior aides/colleagues/employees notes so we know what they had down prior to our shift so things don’t get done twice that may not need to be. I also feel it should have an option to add photos under the service task goals to show how something may have been before you corrected it. Example: a dirty bathroom upon arrival to a shift when relieving another aide, you can post the photo upon your arrival then put in your notes that it was properly cleaned. L