by Kristin Rowan, Editor

LivTech may not be a name with which you are familiar. I wasn’t. But, you are likely familiar with the brands this private equity firm has acquired. Worldview reduces document processing time for home health and hospice agencies. Qualis manages DME workflows for hospice agencies. Ally handles invoicing, payments, and record-keeping for 1099 caregivers while keeping registries aligned with regulations. And now, LivTech has acquired Alora, the cloud-based full workflow solution for home health, hospice, and home care.

CEO Mike Scarbrough, who saw a lot of industry growth when working in the ambulatory space, got excited about the post acute market. LivTech has now been operating in the care at home space for a while with their acquisitions of Worldview and Thornberry. With that foothold, the company looked to have a significant presence in home health, tie all their care at home products together, and provide their customers with a migration path forward, Scarbrough said.

“In home health and home care, a lot of our customers are or are contemplating doing both. We hear a lot that choosing different solutions for home health, home care, and hospice is difficult. We have a suite of products that will do all three after the integration, which will take months, not years,” Scarbrough said. “The Alora platform was very purpose-built, has a rich feature set, has consistently high NPS scores, and has very low churn. More importantly, Alora has a great personality and culture fit with LivTech.”

I asked Scarbrough what the future holds for LivTech as the integration finalizes and what LivTech and Alora customers should expect. He explained that LivTech offers solutions, not software. Their software platforms form the foundation, but their customers also get support, road maps, and best practices.

To make the job easier for the caregivers, LivTech takes what they know as technologists and applies that to what they understand about home health. This involves ambient transcription, chart summaries, drift notification, audits and surveys, and information flow. They also use their understanding of home health to know where NOT to insert their technology: between the caregiver and the care. The solutions augment care and make suggestions, but never make decisions about care.

The question asked of every solution provider, technologist, and consultant recently is “What about AI?” Scarbrough noted the dramatic changes in the AI tool chain in the last six months, changing the pace of software development. He said these changes are going to make some things obsolete and push developers to focus less on how the tech works and more on the problem their trying to solve. We will rely more on expert problem solvers than on tech experts. Scarbrough predicts exponential growth in what software can do, real solutions that weren’t possible before.

When I asked how he felt about the future of LivTech after the acquisition of Alora, he said:

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Kristin Rowan is the owner and Editor-in-chief of The Rowan Report, the industry’s most trusted source for care at home news. She is also a sought-after speaker on Artificial Intelligence, Technology Adoption and Lone Worker Safety. She is available to speak at state and national conferences as well as software user-group meetings.

Kristin also runs Girard Marketing Group, a multi-faceted boutique marketing firm specializing in content creation, social media management, and event marketing. She works with care at home software providers to create dynamic content that increases conversions for direct e-mail, social media, and websites.  Connect with Kristin directly at kristin@girardmarketinggroup.com or www.girardmarketinggroup.com

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