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Coverage Features and Fixes – July 2020

New feature for increased visibility and governance As we kick off the new financial year we’ve released some new features […]

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Coverage Features and Fixes – June 2020

Making Coverage even better, again Just in time for the end of Financial Year, we’ve released a raft of changes […]

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innovAGEING Governance Webinar with our CPO and NovaCare

The webinar, “Modern Governance: Using Technology to take control of the Aged Care Quality Standards”. was hosted by Merlin Kong, Head of innovAGEING, Joseph McCarthy, CEO of NovaCare and our CPO Vinnie D’Alessandro.

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Unannounced audits to recommence – get ready with Coverage

On the 26th of May 2020 during the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19, Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner Janet […]

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Coverage Features and Fixes – May 2020 Part 2

Making Coverage even better, again We’ve squeezed a second release into May just in time for the lifting of the […]

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Coverage Features and Fixes – May 2020

Making Coverage even better Listen up, I don’t want to blow our own horn here, but this could be our […]

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Our CPO pens governance article for innovAGEING

Vinnie D’Alessandro, Umbrella Solutions Chief Product Officer, has written an article for innovAGEING – Australia’s national age services innovation network. […]

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Coverage Features and Fixes – March 2020

Making Coverage even better We’re not going to let a global pandemic stop our support of aged care providers. We’ve […]

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Stay on top of the Standards remotely with 2 months free access to Coverage

This offer has expired, however we do have 1 month free available here. Negotiating social distancing and infection control during […]

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COVID-19: Reliable sources of information

With the recommendations around stopping the spread of COVID-19 changing almost daily, it can be hard to know which information is factual and current.

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