eCaring™ Develops Breakthrough Home Health Care Management System

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NEW YORK, Dec. 7th 2011 - eCaring™ LLC today announced the launch of its new home health care management and monitoring system that enables home care recipients to live at home longer, with better quality of care, at lower cost. eCaringʼs breakthrough web-based system enables everyone involved with home health care—from family members to home care providers to doctors—to receive up-to-date, useful information on the care, conditions, activities and status of home health care patients. eCaring also announced today that it will offer a 75% discount for life to those families accepted into its beta test.

Robert M. Herzog, eCaring's CEO, says: “Family members, health care providers and all concerned parties can finally view and use home health car information from their computer or mobile device, anywhere, anytime. For the first time, home health care recipients can enjoy the benefits of digital records."

"Over 60 million Americans are involved with home care situations," Herzog notes. "But until now, despite the growing emphasis on helping people stay at home longer to receive better quality of care, no system has provided the answer to the most basic of questions for family members who canʼt always be by their loved oneʼs side: 'What's going on?' But thatʼs all changed with eCaring.” “eCaring is a first of its kind," said Carol Rodat, New York Policy Director for PHI (Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute), a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of care by improving the quality of the jobs in longterm care. PHI provides consulting and training services to long-term care providers, curriculum development, and policy research and advocacy at the federal and state level. "eCaring's health care system is designed for the family caregiver, the home care aide and members of the care management team," continued Rodat.

"By providing necessary and critical information on a timely basis, eCaring can improve the health outcomes of those who wish to remain at home. It is an important addition to the home care process." eCaring's patent-pending system enables home aides and caregivers, regardless of their language skills or computer literacy, to enter extensive amounts of vital information in real time about the care being received by home health care recipients. "I know from first hand experience how terribly difficult it is to have to make the transition to coping with home care, emotionally, logistically and financially, which led me to use digital media tools to develop a simpler and better way," Herzog stated. “We've created an icon-based system that users can learn in minutes, which is what makes it so innovative and powerful, says Herzog. “That allows home caregivers to quickly and easily provide people outside the home with up-to-date comprehensive information about how their loved ones are being cared for: How well are they eating, or taking their medications? What are their vital signs? What are their activities, their bodily functions, their physical and mental condition? All these essential concerns can now be tracked in a very detailed way using eCaring.”

eCaring enables family members and healthcare providers to spot trends and sudden changes, so they can prevent minor problems from becoming major ones. Doctors can look at patterns over weeks or months, utilizing the kind of electronic record keeping that can save lives and money. With this in mind, Herzog announced today that eCaring will offer 200 families with home healthcare needs the opportunity to beta test the Company's service. “This way families can experience first hand the ease, simplicity and importance of using the eCaring system. People in these situations deserve peace of mind and the improved care that their loved ones will receive. We want people to enjoy the benefits of using eCaring, so we're offering a limited number of people a 75% discount of just $20 per month to try the system out.”, said Herzog. Interested users can sign up at http://ecaring.com/become-a-beta-user.

In addition to providing support for general home care, eCaring provides a crucial communications link among hospitals, agencies, community care providers and families to manage post-discharge care and reduce hospital readmissions, a potentially enormous cost savings. As Rodat noted, " eCaring is the first health care application that makes use of the training and experience of home care aides in a manner that is both timely and comprehensive. eCaring helps integrate the home care aide into the clinical team – a step that has long been needed.”

About eCaring:

eCaring is a privately held New York company. It believes that home care can be better. To achieve that, it uses the best systems and technology to deliver timely information and effective communications among family members, care managers, and home health providers regarding the daily care and management of seniors and those with chronic conditions. In doing so, it can greatly improve the quality and cost effectiveness of home health care services while reducing the stress of caregiving.

eCaring was started by family members with first hand experience in coordinating and planning 24 hour home care for their elderly parents. Responding to the difficulties and challenges of providing such care, they reached out to find the best professional and practical expertise of health care-industry and digital media professionals. Please visit www.ecaring.com

PHI - Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute PHI works to transform eldercare and disability services. Our goal is to foster dignity, respect, and independence– for all who receive care, and all who provide it. The nationʼs leading authority on the direct-care workforce, PHI promotes quality direct-care jobs as the foundation for quality care. PHI works to strengthen our nationʼs long-term care direct-care workforce, which includes nearly 3 million home health aides, certified nurse aides, and personal care attendants. PHIʼs program activities develop recruitment, training, supervision, and client-centered caregiving practices—along with the public policies necessary to support those practices. PHI believes that creating quality jobs for direct-care workers is essential to providing high-quality, cost-effective services to long-term care consumers.

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