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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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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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