When using Alora, any member of your team can access the software on tablets and smartphones as well as a computer. All information is safely stored in the cloud.

Every aspect of the care you provide is documented. That includes assessment, evaluation, plan of care, notes, verbal orders and more — whether performed by skilled nurses, aides, social workers, or spiritual / volunteer / interdisciplinary team members.

Alora also gives your team the ability to create a plan of care based on assessments and notes based on the plan of care.

Alora Hospice Software generates the Face to Face Encounter forms. It tracks the date when it was sent to the physician for signature and the received date.

Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs) provide guidance to determine if a patient is eligible for Hospice.  Alora Hospice Software has integrated the LCD’s into the RN HIS Assessment for improved compliance.  The primary diagnosis will determine the appropriate LCDs for the nurse to document against improving efficiency.   Validation warnings provide error-checking to ensure that all items to establish eligibility have been addressed.

Alora Hospice Software empowers all members of the Interdisciplinary Group (IDG) to proactively contribute notes for review before each IDG meeting, ensuring thorough preparation.

IDG members can collaboratively review the plan of care, promoting efficient care planning while keeping the patient’s needs at the forefront.

Additionally, all attendees of your IDG meetings can electronically sign the meeting documentation, streamlining the process and enhancing accountability.

Assess the bereavement risk of individuals using Alora’s bereavement assessment tool.  Alora Hospice EMR lets you develop your own bereavement tasks to build multiple bereavement care plans according to bereavement risk and assign them to any bereaved contact of a patient.

Alora’s Bereavement Monitor provides a centralized view to easily monitor and manage all bereavement tasks for all your hospice patients.

Your clinicians can enter and maintain information on patient medications – and the software automatically checks for drug-to-drug interactions and drug-allergy reactions.

Alora provides materials to educate patients and families on the medications provided for hospice care and also generates logs on medication administration.

Do you administer medications for your patients?  If so, you will love Alora’s Medication Administration functionality.

You can specify the scheduled times for each medication.  Based on the scheduled times, Alora provides quick and easy identification of approaching (or delayed) drug administration.

Documenting medication administration is a breeze with a click of a button and features such as multiple medication administration reduces time spent on charting so that more time can be spent on care.

Alora provides the Medication Administration Record (MAR).

Do your staff complete any custom paper documents that were created by your agency?

Alora’s Custom Documents option lets you upload your master documents into the Alora system and have your staff complete and sign those documents electronically, anytime, within Alora.

You do not need to rely on paper documents any longer.

Alora provides COVID-19 screening for patients, staff and volunteers. Special alerts in Alora Hospice Software can remind users when the screening was not completed for themselves or for the patients.

COVID-19 Monitoring Center provides a centralized view for your agency to monitor the COVID-19 risk level for your staff, volunteers and patients.  Instantly know when someone is at risk.  You can also see who has completed the screening for the day and who has not.

Care providers, case managers, physicians and patients can electronically sign documentation – including the interdisciplinary care plans – using their finger or mouse. Captured signatures are embedded into clinical documents. Alora provides tracking options to ensure that documents are appropriately signed.

A medical director working remotely can digitally sign off on the IDT plan later…. team members can enter and access notes on shift visits, missed visits and supervisory visits … and much more.

Alora hospice software tracks all patient information relating to hospice care, such as the period of benefit, levels of care, demographics, insurance, diagnosis and physician information.

The design is simple, but the capability is robust: Alora’s scheduler allows you to enter and view schedules from the angle of caregiver, patient or agency as a whole. It also alerts you to potential conflicts or issues with compliance. And you can view the schedule the way you prefer – by month, week, day or certification period – and manage visits in “batch entry” rows and columns format.

Alora provides color coded alerts for Notice of Election (NOE) that are due soon.  You will never have to miss the timely filing of notice of election.

Alora lets you send and receive faxes with a single click, without the need for a machine. A fax confirmation log keeps a permanent history of all the faxes sent as well as their status.

Onscreen, you can review caregivers’ and team members’ completed documents – to approve or return them to the case manager or team member for correction.

Stay in contact with all staff, including hospice caregivers in the field, with HIPAA-compliant email (which features built-in mobile texting to let them know email is pending). Internal email keeps your agency’s people connected with each other.

It’s your single-view look at what’s in progress – and what still needs to be done. Which forms are due? Which plans of care have yet to be sent? We display it all in one place, and you get to determine the level of information your agency’s users can access.

Alora checks Medicare eligibility for patients and gives you a detailed report with relevant information. Our software also lets you access the Medicare DDE system in a single click.

With Open Shift Notification, you can broadcast messages to your caregivers to quickly fill unassigned visits.  Interested caregivers can request the visits through the app.  This feature significantly increases the efficiency in finding available caregivers to take on  unassigned visits.  Learn more about Open Shift Notification.

Alora hospice software also lets you create and maintain logs for hospice patient and caregiver communication … generate paperless records (scanned document storage) for patients, caregivers and office … handle multiple offices in one system … and more.

We designed our billing solution to help you maximize revenue. Alora lets you generate electronic or paper claims for all payers, including Medicare. Whether hospice care was provided at home, hospital or another facility, Alora can calculate the per diem charges and bill appropriately. The system automatically incorporates all visit information and medications supplied by the agency. So you can be sure that your billing follows guidelines without leaving money on the table.

It’s robust: Alora keeps track of charges, payments, and adjustments and creates summaries or detailed financial reports tailored to the needs of billers, administrators, owners and accountants. Payments can be posted electronically or through manual entry.

With Alora, you can track pay rates for each hospice caregiver – standard rate or special rate for each service type – and calculate gross pay for each employee for the pay period. Pay rates can be set by time or by the visit. You can also generate reports and export payroll several different ways.

Up-to-date driver’s license, auto insurance, TB tests and other credentials are a necessity for your front-line team. Alora helps you track it all. Our software alerts you as key dates approach – and you can customize tracking and alerts to meet your agency’s specific needs.

Alora’s Software for Hospice Care lets you store your paper documents electronically and go paperless.  You can store documents for the clients and for the staff.  You can create folders in Alora to organize your documents by category.

Knowledge is power, and Alora gives you deep knowledge of your hospice agency’s activities by letting you generate reports on the census, visits, compliance – and a vast array of other areas. Best of all, you can customize report generation based on your agency’s needs at any given time.

Alora Hospice Software has made it easier for your back office to run better with other features – such as a month-end closing option for financial transactions and the ability to track general ledger accounts.