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Digital Health Summit 2014: Point-of-Care Everywhere features GrandCare

Point-of-Care Everywhere

Recorded LIVE at CES January 8th, 2014

Designing for the on-the-go individual is no easy feat. From telehealth systems to seamless experiences between devices, focusing on meeting patients and consumers exactly where they are is becoming increasingly critical for success. Join us as we dive deep into the devices and software solutions powering diagnostics, disease management and ongoing monitoring.

Watch GrandCare’s Laura Mitchell and a highly knowledgable panel discuss why healthcare on the go is important, barriers and what the future of healthcare may look like…

Moderator:

Joseph Kvedar, Founder and Director, Center for Connected Health

Panelists:

Walter De Brouwer, CEO, Scanadu Inc
Laura Mitchell, VP Business Development, GrandCare Systems
Nersi Nazari, Chairman and CEO, Vital Connect
Yasmine Winkler, Chief Marketing, Product & Innovation Officer, Employer & Indivdual, UnitedHealthcare

GrandCare featured in MobiHealthNews “Point of Care” article from CES 2014

GrandCare’s VP of Business Development, Laura Mitchell was a panelist on the “Point-of-Care Everywhere” track at the Digital Health Summit during last week’s CES in Las Vegas.

Dr. Joseph Kvedar, director of the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare moderated the discussion on trends in mobile health technology and the process of moving healthcare out of more traditional clinical settings to patients on the move and in their homes. Additional panelists included Walter De Brouwer of Scanadu Inc., Nersi Nazari of Vital Connect, and Yasmine Winkler of UnitedHealthcare.

CES: Mobile health has a lot of power, but it’s raw and new

[…] It’s an uphill battle for sure to sell certain healthcare organizations on new technology. Laura Mitchell, VP of business development at GrandCare Systems, maker of communication and monitoring systems for independent living, said that some long-term-care providers see the West Bend, Wis.-based company as a competitor rather than a useful service.

“We’re sort of the baby monitor but we’re not the mom,” said Mitchell. It is GrandCare’s job to deliver useful, actionable information—with as little “noise” as possible—to caregivers. The caregiver needs to be able to act on the information GrandCare delivers, but the vendor needs to eliminate “noise” in data.

Information should be in the form of “constant reminders,” integrated into the lives of patients and their caregivers, Mitchell said.

This sounds simple, but it so far has not been. Kvedar said that Wellocracy, a social community for health that the Center for Connected Health spun out and launched at CES last year, still searching for its audience.

However, he is optimistic, given the changes going on in healthcare and the merging of institutional and consumer technologies. Despite the rocky rollout of HealthCare.gov, Kvedar said that health insurance exchanges are a “powerful force for engaging consumers.” Kvedar acknowledged that these exchanges are about connecting people to insurance coverage, not managing health conditions, but he said that they at least start people thinking, perhaps for the first time, about being consumers in the healthcare segment.

New payment models that reward outcomes rather than value also are driving growth in nontraditional care settings, plus, as Kvedar illustrated with the smartphone “addiction” example, consumers – all of whom are potential patients – are already so familiar with so many technologies on display at the massive CES show this week.

Read the full article at by Neil Versel at http://mobihealthnews.com/28673/ces-mobile-health-has-a-lot-of-power-but-its-raw-and-new/

GrandCare slated to exhibit and speak at CES Digital Health Summit

ces_logo2Visit GrandCare Systems at CES
January 7-10th, Las Vegas, NV
LVCC South Hall 2 Booth 25724
Show Phone: 262.442.5342
(Text is Best)

Tuesday, January 7: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Wednesday, January 8: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Thursday, January 9: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Point-of-Care Everywhere

January 8, 2014, 2:20-3:10 p.m.
LVCC, North Hall N250

Laura Mitchell

Designing for the on-the-go individual is no easy feat. From tele-health systems to seamless experiences between devices, focusing on meeting patients and consumers exactly where they are is becoming increasingly critical for success. Join us as we dive deep into the devices and software solutions powering diagnostics, disease management and ongoing monitoring.

Moderator:
Joseph Kvedar, Founder and Director, Center for Connected Health

Panelists:
Walter De Brouwer, CEO, Scanadu Inc.
Laura Mitchell, VP Business Development, GrandCare Systems
Nersi Nazari, Chairman and CEO, Vital Connect
Yasmine Winkler, Chief Marketing, Product & Innovation Officer, Employer & Indivdual, UnitedHealthcare

Friday, January 10: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

For more information on CES visit www.cesweb.org.