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| last edited by BillSeitz on Aug 7, 2008 8:26 am |
My DayJob since mid-2003. (I will continue to operate/grow Wikilogs Com and Teamflux Com - new clients always welcomed...)
http://www.livingindependently.com | http://www.quietcare.info
Elevator Pitch: any adult whose aging parent lives alone worries a lot about them. Are they eating, sleeping, taking their meds (changes in these behaviors are often a warning sign of a health problem)? Living Independently installs a series of motion detectors which record activity throughout the house/apartment. A base station dials in to a host system every 2 hours to upload the collected data. These can be reviewed by the child (or other designated caregivers) to highlight the need to check in. If there's a higher-priority concern, like she hasn't gotten out of bed by 10am, or has been in the bathroom for 2 hours (most in-house falls take place in the bathroom), you'll get an email/page. (The service is currently called QuietCare.)
keywords: senior citizen, eldercare, stay at home, live alone, avoid nursing home, prevent emergency room visits
name variants, Living Independently, LivingIndependently, Quiet Care, QuietCare
Let's try a Positioning Statement like Geoffrey Moore would ask us to:
For people worried about a senior loved-one who lives alone...
Who is afraid that talking on the phone or even visiting doesn't give them an accurate picture of that loved-one's health...
We offer a non-intrusive service that monitors their movement around the house
In a way that catches changes in behavior that could be the sign of an impending change in their health that could result in them being hospitalized or needing to move into a nursing home.
Unlike emergency response pendants...
Our system prevents emergencies by catching early warning signs of changes in health. (And requires no behavior changes from the senior, so there's nothing to argue about.)
Some technical info/projects:
back-end system is all Open Source - LinuxOS, Postgre S Q L, ApaChe, PyThon (batch data analysis), ZoPe/PHP
re-architect to use task scheduler Meta Phor to improve scalability/timeliness/consistency of analytics
account management interface customized to user role (family caregiver vs institutional caregiver vs admin staff, etc.)
status/alert distribution via SMTP, SMS, and custom UDP interface (no downstream-partners ready for Web Services)
Feb'2005 - seeking UNIX/LinuxOS Sys Admin/junior programmer (ZoPe/PyThon).
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