Umbrella Solutions Blog

The Umbrella Solutions blog is where we share thoughts on technology and issues impacting the aged care community. Find out about the future of aged care

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Did you know you were leaking

A lot of the service providers within the community aged care space in Australia are not-for-profit, so this may sound […]

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Coverage Features and Fixes Autumn 2021

Making Coverage even better, again While everyone has been waiting for the Royal Commission recommendations, we’ve released a raft of […]

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Take the stress out of Aged Care Quality Audits

An Assessment Team has just arrived to conduct an unannounced site audit. You know you are doing the right thing. […]

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Aligned Whitepaper: Vendors and the Aged Care Quality Standards

Explore why the Aged Care Quality Standards are important for vendors and see how Aligned can help you engage with providers.

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Aged Care Tender Misses the Mark

Whilst it’s heartening that the Government is looking for assistance to increase the velocity and volume of quality assessments within our provider network, it has once again missed an opportunity for the Commission to leverage technology to scale their efforts.

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Better Together: Umbrella and CDCS partner up for the Aged Care Quality Standards

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Are you ready?

January is looking like it will be a month where we see the convergence of several factors that will lead […]

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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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