Senior Accessibility and technology for seniors: GrandCare slated to speak on two forums at M-enabling Summit in DC

M-Enabling Summit | June 9 – 10th | Washington, DC

The M-Enabling Summit is a joint initiative of the Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (G3ict) and E.J. Krause & Associates (EJK) to promote mobile accessible and assistive applications and services for senior citizens and persons with disabilities leveraging the latest operating systems, handsets and tablets based technologies. The third edition of the M-Enabling Summit will be held in June 2014 at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC.

The Summit is the only gathering of U.S. and international leaders of the global ecosystem supporting accessible and assistive mobile solutions. At the Summit they share experiences on how to best leverage the latest mobile operating systems, handset and tablet technologies, creating life changing applications and services for seniors and users of all abilities. More information on this event can be found online at www.m-enabling.com.

Studio D – Market Movers: Easy Apps and Services for Seniors, June 9th – 1:30 – 3 pm

Some of the best known brands in the world, as well as innovative start-ups, are leading digital marketing in the mobile senior market place. This session will review examples of the successful implementation of new features on existing services, as well brand-new apps and services specifically designed for the mobile senior market place. Those reviews will include the best social media, productivity apps, e-commerce, entertainment, search engines or communication solutions which are specifically addressing the needs of seniors around the world.

Session Chair: Janice Branham, Director of Communications and Technology, The OASIS Institute (invited)
Panelists:
Robin Raskin, Founder, Living in Digital Times
Jennifer Crutchfield, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sprint
Kevon Kothari, Director, Corporate Development, Intel-GE Care Innovations LLC
Laura Mitchell, VP of Business Development, GrandCare Systems
Other panelists to be announced

Studio F – M-Health Solutions for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities,  June 10th-  11am – 12:30pm

Few application sectors have seen as much mobile innovation as the health sector.  The potential to remotely monitor, alert, inform, guide and interact with patients, as well as the multitude of self-care and wellness apps, are transforming practices while enhancing safety and productivity of services delivery.  This session will look at some of the most innovative m-health applications and services relevant to seniors and persons with disabilities and review the status of the accessibility of some of the leading mainstream m-Health apps and services.

Session Chair: Stephen Johnston, Founder, Aging2.0

Panelists:

  • Myron Kowal, Owner, Response Care, Inc.
  • Alicia Heazlitt, Director of Strategy and Collaboration Guru, InnovateLTC
  • Courtney Larned, VP, Marketing and Corporate Communications, CareSync
  • Robert Primosch, Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP
  • Laura Mitchell, VP of Business Development, GrandCare Systems

For a full list of conference programs, please visit www.m-enabling.com/agenda.html.

Laura Mitchell, VP Business Development, GrandCare SystemsLaura Mitchell

Laura is a founding member of GrandCare Systems. A significant part of her initial role was to bring the product to market in 2006 through the development of a nation-wide distribution network. Laura specializes in Social Media and non-traditional, guerilla marketing strategies, furthering GrandCare brand recognition throughout the digital health industry, and has been featured in Forbes for her work.

She travels nationwide, providing educational presentations on digital home health, social media, using technology to mitigate hospital readmissions, and go-to-market strategies. Venues include the AARP National Convention, AHIMA, NAHB, Connected Health Symposium, ASA, CEDIA, CEA Industry Forum, and CES. She has also authored various magazine articles on the digital health market and go-to-market strategy.

Laura was a key organizer for the EHX and CEDIA Future Home Pavilion Educational Tracks. She was the recipient of the What’s Next 2011 Boomer Business Innovation Award for Excellence in Leadership and Innovation and was awarded the 2012 Dealerscope’s “40 Under 40” Award.

 

The Peggy Smedley Show Featuring Laura Mitchell

Laura Mitchell, vice president of business development, GrandCare Systems, will join The Peggy Smedley Show, the voice of M2M and connected devices. Listen live by visiting The Peggy Smedley Show Website, or download archived episodes at www.peggysmedleyshow.com/archives

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Laura Mitchell, VP Business Development, GrandCare Systems“The number of elderly people in the United States is rising at a rapid rate courtesy of longer life expectancies and an aging “Baby Boomer” population. Efficient care and assistance for these people is very important, and technology is playing a major role in helping ease some of that burden.” Laura Mitchell, vice president of business development for GrandCare Systems, explains how her company’s systems assist in care-giving efforts and what some of the barriers are in adopting technology to service an aging population.

Laura Mitchell, VP Business Development, GrandCare Systems

Laura is a founding member of GrandCare Systems. A significant part of her initial role was to bring the product to market in 2006 through the development of a nation-wide distribution network. Laura specializes in Social Media and non-traditional, guerilla marketing strategies, furthering GrandCare brand recognition throughout the digital health industry, and has been featured in Forbes for her work.

She travels nationwide, providing educational presentations on digital home health, social media, using technology to mitigate hospital readmissions, and go-to-market strategies. Venues include the AARP National Convention, AHIMA, NAHB, Connected Health Symposium, ASA, CEDIA, CEA Industry Forum, and CES. She has also authored various magazine articles on the digital health market and go-to-market strategy.

Laura was a key organizer for the EHX and CEDIA Future Home Pavilion Educational Tracks. In 2008, she created the industry-wide Aging and Technology webinars. She was the recipient of the What’s Next 2011 Boomer Business Innovation Award for Excellence in Leadership and Innovation and was awarded the 2012 Dealerscope’s “40 Under 40” Award.

GrandCare Systems

GrandCare Systems, headquartered in Wisconsin, has provided the most comprehensive caregiving technology on the market since 2005, enabling individuals to remain safe, healthy, and happy at home.

The GrandCare interactive touchscreen gives residents the option to control communications and view specific pictures, listen to audio messages, check calendar appointments, visit designated web sites, play games and brain exercises, and video chat with family.

Using a series of wireless activity sensors and digital health devices, the system can alert designated caregivers by phone, email, or text if something seems amiss (e.g. no motion in the kitchen or medications were refused).

For more information or to buy online visit grandcare.com.

About The Peggy Smedley Show

As the voice of M2M and connected devices, The Peggy Smedley Show is an entertaining, yet fun, resource for listeners looking to understand the issues and challenges of implementing the newest technologies both in the workplace and at home. Broadcast live each Tuesday from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. CT on wsRadio.com, host Peggy Smedley brings her years of experience, knowledge, analysis, and sense of humor to each show. The Peggy Smedley Show features discussions with top-tech thinkers and newsmakers, offering in-depth analysis, while sharing the hottest connected-device stories and trends. To learn more, or to hear current or past shows, please visit www.peggysmedleyshow.com.

 

GrandCare chosen as featured speaker at June 3 InControl Wisconsin event

GrandCare Systems’ Laura Mitchell has been selected to lead a discussion exploring how digital health technologies (activity, medication management, telehealth, socialization) can enable seniors to remain safer, happier and healthier wherever home is. It also engages multiple levels of caregivers, who can better and more efficiently care for an aging client or loved one.

Stop by GrandCare’s booth to experience why GrandCare is a leader and pioneer in the digital health and wellness industry.

 

Laura Mitchell, VP Business Development, GrandCare Systems Topic: Senior Cyborgs & Technology powered “digital caregivers”

This course is an exploration of how digital health technologies (video chat, activity, telehealth and medication monitoring) will empower the aging and chronic disease mgmt population while providing caregivers and health providers with BETTER information, eliminating the “noise” and enabling proactive, predictive and preventative care.  With the backdrop of the affordable care act, health providers are being penalized for cost of readmissions within 30 days.  Meanwhile, this society is faced with a huge disruptive demographic: the aging population. One can hardly discuss the aging tsunami without addressing the rising cost of healthcare, typically more is spent in the later years in life.  Everyone is looking to provide more cost-effective care where we turn caregivers into “zone players” vs. old school man on man.

Living a Self-Determined Life: A Conference on Empowerment for Older Adults

June 3, 2014

8:45 am – 4:00 pm

Glacier Canyon Lodge Conference Center at the Wilderness Resort Wisconsin Dells

The Living a Self Determined Life conference brings together people who are committed to the notion that older people should be empowered to live the life they choose.

Who should attend:

 – Senior Population

 – Professional Caregivers

 – Geriatric Care Managers

 – Long Term Care communities

 – Healthcare Providers

Register Now

 

GrandCare showcased at American Telemedicine Association in Baltimore Booth 5330

May 17 – 20th | Baltimore, MD | www.americantelemed.org/ata-2014

Join Digital Health industry leader and pioneer, GrandCare Systems this year at ATA 2014 in Baltimore in Booth 5330. We would like to meet with you, so please contact us: info@grandcare.com to schedule a meeting or request additional information.

Show phone: 262-442-5342 (text is best)

Visit GrandCare Systems at Booth 5330 

System Comp 2GrandCare Systems is a digital health touch-based technology tool that enables chronic disease management, medication adherence, supports seamless and effective transitioning from hospital to home and affords patient-centered coordinated care, bettering the patient experience. GrandCare offers care providers and healthcare staff with real time biometric and vital recordings, as well as onboard patient assessments. Remote care providers can push discharge instructions, medication schedules, red flag symptoms and more directly the touchscreen in the patient’s home. GrandCare is the vehicle to patient-centered care, enabling all members of the care team to remain coordinated and have continuous and immediate access to the patient.

For more information on GrandCare Systems visit www.GrandCare.com

Exhibit Hall Hours

Sunday May 18th, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Monday May 19th, 10am – 6:30 pm
Tuesday May 20th, 10am – 3pm

Why ATA?

The ATA Annual Trade Show is the premier venue for remote healthcare technology, featuring hundreds of vendors and institutions in the telemedicine, mHealth and HIT space.  With over 6000 healthcare professionals projected to attend, ATA 2014 is the place where buyers and sellers meet to do business. 

For Healthcare Administrators:

  • Increase clinical outreach and market share
  • Improve service quality and patient satisfaction
  • Cut service costs and lower hospital readmissions
  • See and test the latest remote healthcare technologies

For Clinicians, & Healthcare Providers:

  • Learn best practices for telemedicine in a variety of clinical specialties
  • Get the latest outcomes data from major clinical studies
  • Network with thought-leaders and thousands of peers
  • Earn Continuing Education Credits
  • Find equipment to start/upgrade a telemedicine program

For IT & Technology Professionals:

  • Get certificate-level training in the development and
  • maintenance of telemedicine systems
  • Maximize the investment in EHRs by using HIT to facilitate telemedicine
  • Integrate mHealth platforms into existing healthcare delivery systems
  • See and test the latest remote healthcare

For Entrepreneurs & Consultants:

  • Access and sell to the world’s largest gathering of technology-progressive health providers
  • Find B2B opportunities and VC investment opportunities
  • Get the industry perspective on hot-topic issues facing telemedicine and remote healthcare
  • See the products and services reshaping the healthcare

 

GrandCare Systems is featured in the New York Times and Yahoo News!

NY TIMES: Smartphones, Smartwatches and, Now, Smart Toothbrushes

May 7, 2014 | New York Times

IN the last few years, sensors have become small and inexpensive enough to make the monitoring of practically everything possible.

“Sensors also are helping caregivers see and respond to what is happening while patients are on their own. GrandCare Systems and other companies make devices to monitor a person’s home. If the patient, say, walks out the front door at 2 a.m. or opens the refrigerator 15 times an hour, the caregiver will get a phone call or a text message.”

Read the full Article

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Yahoo! We have the technology to reinvent aging, so why aren’t we using it?  

May 7, 2014 | Yahoo News

[..] The key to that, he [Charlie Hilman, Founder and CTO, GrandCare Systems] says, is to keep the interfaces simple and to integrate health and safety features with ones that facilitate connectivity. “We put a lot of stuff into Facebook feeds and Skype,” he says. “And the tablet era has really helped a lot because seniors love tablets: big, bright, backlit screen; no keyboard; no buttons.” In fact, tablets have become so popular among seniors that Hillman credits the devices with transforming the way they view sensor technology. “It took a while for them to get over the Big Brother aspect,” he says. “But now it’s, ‘Well, I don’t want to move to assisted living, and I don’t want somebody I don’t know coming into my home every day to deliver care.’ So this becomes a best option.”

Read the full article

GrandCare featured in “High Tech = High Touch”

A recent May 1 article in Health Data Management “High Tech = High Touch”, authored by Elizabeth Gardner, discusses the importance of technology for the senior population throughout the continuum of care and to help mitigate hospital readmissions.

She uses a few flagship technologies to exemplify how information technologies are helping individuals to stay healthy.

In a section titled “GRANDCARE: STAYING CONNECTED AT HOME“, Gardner interviews Evergreen, a Silicon Valley-based Long Term Care Provider utilizing the GrandCare solution, GrandCare’s VP of Business Development, Laura Mitchell and GrandCare’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Erick Eiting.

Excerpt of the article:

A profusion of technologies can help people stay in their homes as they age, despite physical and mental disabilities: monitors and sensors to track vital signs and movement, the Internet for communication and entertainment, smart home features to control lights and temperature. However, tying them all together is a challenge beyond most elderly people and even the younger family members who may be caring for them.

That’s where GrandCare Systems, West Bend, Wisc., comes in. Started nine years ago, its goal is “to keep individuals safe, happy and independent at home, whatever that means,” says Laura Mitchell, vice president of business development.

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“I have a 95-year-old resident who reads bedtime stories every night to her great grandchild in Florida,” he says. “She just has to press the button with his picture and they’re connected. No turning anything on, logging in or memorizing phone numbers.”

GrandCare Chief Medical Officer Erick Eiting, M.D., who’s also assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Southern California, thinks the system’s monitoring capabilities will be invaluable for improving communication between patients and their medical team.

“We can look at whether you’re taking your meds when you should be, and if not, why not,” he says. Problems with side effects can be headed off without requiring an office visit.

“We had one CHF patient who thought he was taking his meds, but we could see he wasn’t taking the evening dose of his diuretic,” Eiting says. “When we asked him why, he said it made him have to get up and go to the bathroom during the night. We increased his morning dose and that fixed it.”

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