Connect America provides a connective care platform that integrates personal emergency response systems (PERS) with a 24/7 response center and a data analytics engine. This solution enhances in-home safety and medication adherence for individuals, while offering healthcare providers actionable insights for proactive care and reduced hospitalizations.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Individuals requiring in-home care and health monitoring often face challenges with medication adherence and timely emergency response, leading to adverse health events and increased healthcare utilization. Existing personal emergency response systems (PERS) typically lack integrated clinical intelligence and data analytics, limiting proactive care interventions.
Solution
Connect America offers a comprehensive connective care platform that integrates advanced personal emergency response systems (PERS) with a 24/7 response center and a robust data analytics engine, CareSage. This platform provides individuals with reliable health and safety devices, ensuring immediate assistance during emergencies and supporting medication adherence through specialized dispensers. The CareSage platform analyzes data from these devices to provide healthcare providers with actionable insights into patient activity, mobility, and health trends. This enables proactive care strategies, early intervention for potential health deteriorations, and a reduction in unnecessary emergency department visits and hospital readmissions.
Target Audience
The primary customers are health plans, healthcare providers, and organizations focused on remote patient monitoring and aging-in-place solutions.
Features
- Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) with integrated fall detection technology for both in-home and mobile use.
- 24/7/365 monitoring by trained care specialists who triage emergency and non-emergency situations.
- Medication management dispensers designed to ensure correct dosage and timing, with alerts for missed doses sent to caregivers.
- CareSage analytics platform that ingests device data to provide insights on activity levels, mobility, fall events, and hospitalization risk.
- Web-based dashboard and email reporting for clinicians, offering population-level and individual-level data with drill-down capabilities.
- Proprietary algorithms within CareSage to calculate risk scores for predicting potential hospital transports or admissions.
- Mobile application (Connect America Notify) for caregivers to monitor multiple users, receive real-time notifications, and track device battery status.
- Support for social determinants of health (SDoH) through partnerships for services like meal delivery and transportation.