dala.care

The team is absolutely on fire after the holidays and we have substantial product updates rolling out every other day. The latest is very dear to us. We have had it on our wishlist for a while but it’s not something we get requests for. It’s one of those things that just make you go ahhh and you instantly realize that this is how things should always have behaved. From today, our care managers no longer need to refresh the schedule to see if caregivers have started care. The visit status is just updated in real-time before your eyes as people start and complete care. Our design and front end wizards even added a subtle breathing effect for the active visits 👌. It’s all in the craft and attention to detail at dala.care. https://lnkd.in/dZCtvard

We're rolling into 2025 with some substantial product updates. From experience, we’ve learned that the latter half of the year is perfect for digging deep and building. Then, after some holiday recharge, we hit the ground running to refine and release. Our first big update is a complete overhaul of our core, the scheduling UI and UX. After countless discovery sessions with our most engaged customers and several iterations, the new scheduling experience is now live for all care managers on the platform. For teams managing hundreds of caregivers and thousands of care recipients, having clear insights and streamlined overview is critical. We have also improved the most common user flows for updating schedules. The most common daily task for every care manager. This upgrade is designed to make that easier than ever, and we’re eager to see how it enhances both performance and care quality. Additionally, we’re doubling down on our commitment to our user community. Today, we’re also launching our idea platform and public roadmap! You can now keep up with the latest releases, submit or vote on ideas, and track progress directly on our site. Check the first comment for the link to explore this new section.

We are currently at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice conference in Tampa Florida - it's our first time exhibiting in the US so it's a big milestone for dala.care. We're having meaningful conversations with potential customers, connecting with potential partners and just learning so much every day from inspiring presentations and case studies.

🚀 Exciting News! dala.care has successfully closed our seed funding round, raising $1.4 million 🎉 This funding, led by Origo, will fuel our growth, enhance our development efforts, and support our expansion into the US market. Onward and upward – more exciting updates coming soon! 🌟 #Funding #HomeCare #Innovation #HealthTech #StartUp

We worship caregivers, they are the best people and deserve the best working conditions. Recently we sat down with an early adopter of the app and she gave us fantastic feedback. ... but, she missed seeing the age of her care recipients. A small piece of insight that helps her paint a picture of a person before meeting them for the first time. It was a total egg on the face moment for us when we realized that we had left this one piece of information out of the app designs. But this is exactly what our Friday Rage Fixes are for. We were so ashamed that we fixed it with fists clenched last Friday, but we also dialed it up to 11 and added confetti 🎉 to the visit screen when the person receiving care has their birthday. It's all in line with our opinion that people in healthcare have had to suffer with bad user experience and no fun in app design for too long. They truly deserve the best and confetti is totally up there when it comes to delivering quality products!

Autumn is around the corner and the whole team is assembled after the holidays. We work in two week cycles and plan our work six months ahead, somewhat inspired by the way Linear work. This means that we're introducing the large development milestones from last six months now while we look ahead at priorities for the winter. Last week we deployed our notification infrastructure, notification centers in both apps as well as push notifications for caregivers and care managers. Managing care at scale is perhaps one of the hardest multitasking challenge we have observed, and having dala.care in your corner, making sure that people receiving care have someone show up at the right time and place is a valuable part of our platform. Notifications are the foundation for a lot of the real-time features as well as the Communication theme we got in store going forward. You can read all about the Notifications in our Change Log where we announce new features as they roll out.

Exciting News from Innovation Week in Iceland! Tomorrow, we're thrilled to be presenting the dala.care platform at the Public Sector Innovation Day. This event also features the prestigious annual awards ceremony recognizing municipalities for their outstanding digital transformation efforts. We're proud to announce that last week, both Vestmannaeyjar and Reykjavik were honored for their innovative use of dala.care. If you're attending the conference, we'd love for you to visit our stand. Let's connect and explore how dala.care can benefit your municipality. See you there!

This week, our team was thrilled to receive an award from the Union of Economists and Business Academics (FVH Félag viðskipta- og hagfræðinga) for our innovative technology and its impact on society. Just the day before, our President was also presenting awards to municipalities leading the way in adopting the dala.method for home care. It's truly inspiring to regularly meet with our President and receive such prestigious recognition. This acknowledgment motivates us to push further and innovate more. As you can see from the photo, our incredible team has more than doubled in size as we accelerate our efforts. We're excited about the future and committed to continuing our contribution to improving home care. Have you or your community experienced the benefits of the dala.method? Let's connect and share stories! #Innovation #HomeCare #Technology #BusinessGrowth #Teamwork

This week we released two important features that pave the way for optimization in billing, accounting and reporting for home care providers. It's something we've been working on for a while based on fantastic input from our current customers. We also used this opportunity to launch the dala.changelog where anyone can now keep up to date and subscribe to updates on new features and improvements. We recently welcomed three new dala.team.members and are increasing our velocity in revolutionizing the future of home care. So watch this space:

We’re growing into the dala.brand and after a deep journey into the valley of who we are, we have today launched a refreshed look and feel for dala.care. The name dala in Icelandic literally refers to a valley.  It takes a village to care for a person and we come together to do what it takes when a person in our community needs caring for. As we do in all the fjords and small towns around Iceland. Dala also has meaning with the Xhosa tribe in South Africa linked to the action of creating, getting things done, or even making a plan. As we know, quality care starts with a well defined care plan. But let’s go back to the valley. Every person is unique and every day brings a different challenge. So is the dala.brand - we are organic, ever changing and embrace the unpredictable nature of care. Just like every leaf in the valley is unique and alive, our brandmark is not a fixed symbol, but rather a snapshot of how the leaves are captured at any given moment. Each branch of the dala.care universe holds two leaves in different compositions, no sets are the same but all stem from the same root. All the work was done in-house by our brilliant designer Berglind Brá Jóhannsdóttir. So if you happen to see her online or offline in any shape or form, give her a big high-five. This new visual world will continue to grow and we are excited to develop it further to figure out all the ways it will manifest itself. happy.dala.days