Going digital

Discover the essentials of MAR charts for domiciliary care. Learn how to streamline medication management, ensuring safety and quality in care delivery.

Discover how technology is transforming Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) plans with real-time data, advanced analytics, and seamless team collaboration for better care outcomes.

Discover top tips to improve your care rostering system with a focus on personalisation, real-time data, continuity, and simplicity for better care outcomes.

Discover how to evaluate social care software suppliers with our step-by-step guide, including tips on researching features, security, and booking demos.

Mark Topps explores how care providers can best set service user goals, and discusses the pros and cons of paper vs digital care records.

Log my Care is a Person Centred Software (PCS) alternative that helps improve care delivery across your service.

Mark Topps discusses the benefits of moving to a digital care management system and shares his advice and tips for going from paper to digital.

Log my Care is a Nourish Care alternative that helps improve person-centred care across your care service.

Mark Topps looks at the reasons for moving to a digital model and how you can ensure your service is ready for the March 2024 deadline.

NHSX is providing support to help digitise social care. Here’s our simple guide to getting that grant

Record keeping in health and social care is a must for social care teams.

Moving from pen and paper note taking to a digital system doesn’t need to be daunting. Our guide for care home managers shows you how.

Moving from pen and paper note taking to a digital system doesn’t need to be daunting. Our guide for care home owners shows you how.

How going digital can help care providers recruit and retain staff

Thinking about going digital? Mark Topps shares the things you need to consider before introducing a digital system into your care service.

Mark Topps shares his advice for making digital transformation happen in your care service.

Ever wondered what the difference is between electronic medication administration records (eMAR) and electronic medication management (eMM)? You’re not alone. But don’t fear, we’ve got a handy guide for you!

In his latest Social Care Column, Mark Topps explains why digitalisation is key to further developing the social care sector.

Thinking about going digital but have some questions? Listen to our Founder and CEO, Sam Hussain, discuss the benefits of digitisation in care on The Caring View talk show.

There are apps available for almost anything these days and the quality can really vary. We decided to make a list of some of the top apps for care assistants in 2021 to help make life easier for you when considering which app to download!

For his second column, Mark discusses the benefits of using electronic care planning systems and what types of questions to ask if you're considering making the move from paper to electronic.

Do you know someone who is thinking about going digital? Start referring friends and colleagues to Log my Care through our Refer a Friend scheme and earn Amazon vouchers for your efforts!

Thinking about going digital but have some questions? Listen to our Founder and CEO, Sam Hussain, discuss the benefits of going digital on Care Home Management's podcast.

Mobile care software is an awesome way to monitor your service users' wellbeing and health. Carers use the software to log their care on-the-go, which gets fed into a central system managers use to keep a close eye on their users' health and wellbeing.

Our CEO, Sam Hussain, recently went on the CHM Podcast to discuss how to digitise your care home. Read the main takeaways from the discussion here!

Quality of care in a nursing home is something that is often on the minds of providers. It's important that nurses have all the tools available to help them deliver the best quality care that they can. And that's where nursing home scheduling software like Log my Care comes in.

Care coordination software is a singular platform that care providers can use to organise, distribute, and monitor care delivery throughout a home or care service.

Care coordination software is a singular platform that care providers can use to organise, distribute, and monitor care delivery throughout a home or care service.

With so many different care apps on the market at the moment, it can be difficult to work out what's right for your care home. This week's blog explores the things you should consider when choosing the right care management application for you.

If you're a care provider, you'll probably have noticed lots of information about electronic care records around at the moment, and some of it can be really confusing and conflicting. We've put together this simple guide for you, so you'll soon be all clued up on electronic care records.

Care planning is slowly but surely moving into a new age. The days of paper notes and filing through cabinets to access important information are quickly becoming a thing of the past.

Are you looking to improve care delivery in your nursing home? Or perhaps you just want to find out a bit more about how digital care plans can help care provision in your home. Keep reading to learn about the basics of care plans in nursing homes.

Care plans detail the type of support and care that individuals need. The best ones put those who need care at the centre of the plan and involve them in creating a routine.

We're all about making the lives of carers easier, so if you want to know more about care management platforms then you're in the right place.

A care management system is a piece of software that you use to help you manage care delivery in your care home. Find out what you need to know to start using one.

When care plans are stored on a central database and accessed via software (which is just a techy way of saying digitised) not only are they safely stored on the cloud and kept smart, but there's a whole new world of opportunity for the care industry.

Getting your home started with electronic care plans, might at first seem like a bit of a tall order. Fear not! We've got your back and have come up with a quick guide showing you how to get your care home up and running with electronic care plans.

Electronic Care Planning is it for you? How do you know if it will even help your care service? Well look no further, our handy little guide tells all.

The best care homes place residents at the centre of care. Having the best value-based care helps care homes stand out in a competitive and crowded market. Being able to offer care plans for each individual resident regardless of their needs is a really attractive, and necessary feature for care homes to have.

Software for residential care homes aims to give people working in the care sector an efficient and seamless way of doing paperwork, one that gives you more time to give quality care to the people who need it.

So what are the 5 steps that will help you implement electronic care planning into your care service?

Care apps like ours have helped pave the way for improvements in the service that frontline staff and management offer.

We get asked this a lot and by a lot, I mean at least 5 times a day. Why are you free? How is the Log my Care home software free? What's the catch?

This guide will help you choose the right smartphones for your carers to use and also help you find some solid options that will improve your Wi-Fi signal in your care home, in order to get the most of your chosen care management software.

An electronic care plan is a digital version of a conventional paper care plan. This can be one that is created through simple software like Microsoft Word or more complex systems designed to create the plans themselves. Log my Care takes your digital care plans and acts as a storage facility. We help to identify the care plan's evolution, by giving you records of when the documentation has been updated and keeping back-ups of previous versions.

So, you're thinking of getting a care management system in your care home and want to run a test or a pilot to see if it's really for you? Well, this handy little guide will run through everything you need to do - broken down into easy steps.

Care home management software is still fairly new to most of the care homes in the UK and the software industry is fairly guilty of resorting to overly complex and techy terminology at the best of times.

Let's face it, there is loads of different care plan software on the market right now and most of it costs a fair old whack. So what do you need to know in order to avoid the cr*p and get the right software, which actually does what you need it to?

Not all electronic care planning systems are created equal. Check out our handy guide on what to be aware of when looking to take your care service digital.

This week's blog focuses on the biggest dos and don'ts when it comes to care home software. There's loads of choice out there, so you need to know what to do and what not to.

We know it's pretty hard to risk switching up your current practices and getting something new in, which could upset the carers and distract them from your residents might at first seem like something that's not worth the hassle.

Quality care home management software helps carers stay on top of everything whilst making their working lives easier.