The Digital Health Summer Summit was a success! The team from GrandCare was there, showcasing the latest and greatest GrandCare System, designed for patient socialization and engagement, enhancing the patient experience, while enabling professional caregivers to turn their “man on man” caregivers into “zone caregivers”, providing better, more efficient, more cost-effective care. Watch GrandCare’s chief medical officer, Laura Mitchell as she describes the shift in market traction and why our solutions should focus on the outcomes and not on the process.
The system is a vehicle behind a successful care delivery model, while putting the patient firmly in the center and emphasizing continuity and seamless transition throughout the whole care network (family, professional caregivers, healthcare providers, patient) and encouraging patient self care (chronic disease management), socialization with family and friends and virtual professional caregiving through HIPAA compliant video chat, medication prompting and check-in video visits.
GrandCare can better care delivery outcomes for:
– Professional In-home Care providers
– CCRCs without walls (Long Term Care Providers)
– HealthCare Providers (Hospital to Home Transitions)
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Connect with us through the Innovation HealthJam 2014 to learn about technology innovation in the Healthcare industry. GrandCare Systems wants you to be a part of the excitement. Chief Marketing Officer, Laura Mitchell, is a VIP member and will be speaking each day of the event.
The Innovation HealthJam is a completely virtual event that brings together a diverse and knowledgeable group of people from the healthcare and technology fields to brainstorm ideas, improvements and innovation in healthcare. The event is co-hosted by a group of industry leaders and led by the New Business Development and Innovation group at Panasonic Corporation of North America.
Laura is a founding member of GrandCare Systems, a comprehensive caregiving technology company that combines remote monitoring of activity and telehealth devices centered around a touch-based communication, socialization, and video chat appliance in the care recipient’s home.
Laura was responsible for bringing GrandCares’s product to market in 2006, while aiding in the creation of the “Digital Health” and Aging & Technology industry. She specializes in channel partnerships, growth hacking, and non-traditional marketing and social media. She was featured in Forbes for her social media strategies and has been recognized by several industry media outlets, including Connected World Magazine’s 2014 Top Women of M2M, a nomination for the 2012 WEGO Health “Trailblazer”, 2012 Dealerscope’s 40 Under 40, 2012 “Young Turk of CE” by Custom Retailer Magazine, and the 2011 Mary Furlong Flame Award.
Laura speaks throughout the country at industry events and radio shows on Digital Health, Mitigating Hospital Readmissions Using Technology, Social Media, and Go-to-market Strategies in the Aging Industry. Venues include CES, Digital Health Summit, Mhealth Summit, M-enabling Summit, LeadingAge, AgeTech West, AARP, Connected Health Symposium, and others. She has authored several publications and whitepapers for industry magazines, internet publications, blogs, and books. Laura has consulted for major cable, aging service, and in-home care providers, and has mentored fellow start-up innovators. She was a key organizer in the early days of the EHX and CEDIA Future Home Pavilions, and created the first industry-wide Aging and Technology webinar series in 2008, which flourished for years. Laura was co-founder of the Aging Technology Alliance, an organization encouraging co-ompetition amongst the Aging in Place Technology industry.
Laura is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and lives in Wisconsin with her husband, two sons, and two dogs.
She will be speaking on the following days:
June 17th † 2:00-3:00 pm PT
Forum: Technology and Older Adults
Topic: Is it possible to utilize technology to provide a satisfying virtual caregiving experience?
June 18th † 8:00-9:00 am PT
Forum: Technology and Older Adults
Topic: How can we effectively bring technology solutions for older adults to market?
June 19th † 3:00-4:00 pm PT
Forum: Technology and Older Adults
Topic: How can we effectively bring technology solutions for older adults to market?
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GrandCare Systems provides the most comprehensive caregiving technology on the market today, enabling individuals to remain safe, healthy, and happy at home. GrandCare’s simple, touch platform enables a resident to view pictures, receive incoming messages, watch videos, video chat with family, listen to music and play fun games. Using a series of wireless activity and telehealth devices, GrandCare can alert designated caregivers by phone, email or text if anything seems amiss (medications not accessed, glucose levels not taken, abnormal activity, etc.).
The SeniorHomes.com Best Senior Living Awards program highlights the best senior living communities in select major metropolitan areas across the US. Utilizing independent, reputable sources such as local experts, state inspection data, and online community reviews from across the web, the program aims to identify and recognize those communities that exceed expectations in serving their residents through highly effective programs and resources to help seniors and their family members navigate the multitude of senior housing options. Consumers face a multitude of care and housing options and today there is not a reliable, objective source of information for comparing and evaluating the quality of the senior living communities in those areas.
The winner of Most Innovative Products is awarded to the finalist that earns the highest rating during the Best Senior Living Awards.
The GrandCare System is now available online at the NEW GrandCare Systems web store. Shop now at Store.GrandCare.com, or learn more about the system at GrandCare.com.
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The Digital Health Summer Summit takes a deep dive into the elements of a successful digital health venture. On the heels of the sold-out, wildly successful Digital Health Summit at the 2014 International CES, the Digital Health Summer Summit is a two-day conference showcasing the latest digital health innovations from the point of view of the industry’s most brilliant thinkers and doers.
Exploring the most pressing–and sometimes controversial–questions that face the industry today, the Summer Summit provides a unique forum for industry veterans to share their hard-learned lessons and insider tips on this multifaceted, fast-growing market.
Healthcare and fitness device/ technology companies
Policymakers, pharma execs, insurers and payers
VCs, angels and other vested financial players
Media and analysts
Academia, students and start-ups
And anyone looking to expand into digital health and fitness
Gaining Traction: The Markets to Watch
Friday, June 20th, 10:15am-10:35am
GrandCare Systems very own Chief Marketing Officer, Laura Mitchell, will be speaking at the 2014 Digital Health Summer Summit. This will be taking place June 18th-20th in San Francisco, CA.
With a number of growing markets in digital health, there are undoubtedly a few that seem to be picking up speed with consumers and care providers: aging and wearables. And with this comes more investor dollars and companies wanting “in.”
As one of the most valuable market segments, boomers account for nearly $230 billion in sales for consumer goods and will control 70% of the nation’s disposable income in the next twenty years. And with the value of the wearables market expected to cross $8B by 2018, consumers and companies are taking notice.
Laura Mitchell, Chief Marketing Officer, 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.
Laura was recently featured as a speaker on the Peggy Smedley Show. Click here to listen.
Be sure to visit GrandCare Systems® Silver Sponsor, 2014 Digital Health Summit
Industry pioneer GrandCare Systems provides the most trusted and comprehensive caregiving technology on the market. Since 2005, GrandCare has enabled individuals to remain healthier, happier, and more independent.
GrandCare is a complete communication, cognition and monitoring technology – Designed to keep individuals safe, healthy, happy and independent at home. Using a series of wireless activity (door, temp, motion, bed, etc.) and telewellness (bloodpressure, weight) sensors, a care-partner can automatically be notified if anything is amiss. Family can can connect by two way video chat AND send pictures, messages, emails, videos and other communications to an easy-to-use touch monitor in the loved one’s home. Loved ones need ZERO technical experience.
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Last week, Peggy Smedley asked some pointed questions on how GrandCare Systems® responds to barriers and obstacles in the aging industry. GrandCare’s Chief Marketing Officer, Laura Mitchell had the answers. Listen to the 15 minute segment on how GrandCare envisions the connected healthcare market, why socialization is critical to mitigate loneliness and isolation and why cognitive assists can help just about anyone.
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).
If interested in reading more about GrandCare Systems or purchasing our product you can visit the website at www.grandcare.com
To access the Interview on the Peggy Smedley website Click Here
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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
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.
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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
“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.
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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.
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.
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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.
GrandCare 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.
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
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NY TIMES: Smartphones, Smartwatches and, Now, Smart Toothbrushes
By Eric A. Taub | 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.”
Yahoo! We have the technology to reinvent aging, so why aren’t we using it?
By Jeneen Interlandi | 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.”
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