Yardi Adds Data Integration for Senior Living

Yardi announced that its electronic health record product is now integrated with a third-party product that will give the former the ability to directly acquire data from medical devices.

The move expands the depth of the one offering and suggests potential extensions of its set of offerings for senior housing, skilled nursing, and home care.

Yardi EHR now uses Direct Supply’s DS Smart technology to directly pull in patient data “drawn from supported equipment, such as vital signs monitors.” The company says that it will allow staff at facilities to spend less time collecting data while reducing the potential for human error resulting in incorrect information being logged.

Yardi introduced the EHR product early in 2015. The browser-based software was intended from the start as a product for senior living, working with Yardi Voyager Senior Housing. “Core functions of Yardi EHR include resident assessments, care planning, staff assignment oversight, medication administration, incident tracking, wound care, and behavior management,” the company said at the time. “Yardi EHR is a core component of the Yardi Senior Living Suite which includes Yardi Voyager Senior Housing for managing occupancy, accounting, and property management, Yardi eMAR for prescription medication management, Yardi Senior CRM for sales and marketing activities, Yardi eLearning for Web-based staff training, and the upcoming SENIORCafé for online resident and family member service portals.”

In early 2022, there was a series of bankruptcy filings among senior-focused health care facilities. That would suggest that the sector is under significant financial pressure and that facilities could be looking for ways to gain efficiency and lower staffing requirements. Replacing a cumbersome manual process with automation would present an attractive option for facilities that were either restructuring or had not made a bankruptcy filing but was cognizant of the other companies that had.

And then there are the other potential uses for a combination like this. Yardi has an offering for skilled nursing facilities, which would also involve frequently to collect patient data.

Yardi also has something for home care. The in particular, combined with data collection, like that pulled from, say, a bedside monitor or even blood pressure device, could delivery important data over the Internet and outdo many of the more ad hoc tools, like using a smartwatch to perform related tasks, but probably not provide integration with other equipment.