New Brunswick Companies at Demo Day: eChart Healthcare
With Propel ICT’s Demo Day coming up on Nov. 29 in Halifax, we’re chatting with the New Brunswick companies who will be pitching at Pier 21.
Today we meet Amanda Betts, founder of eChart HealthCare Inc:
1) What’s your pitch?
Our company, eChart Healthcare, joins the families and the facility together and provides a way for information to flow back and forth so everyone is working together and the families are at peace. Our vision to be a platform that grows with the aging parent transitioning with them as their care needs increase. We introduce ourselves upon discharge, after a hospital stay to help reduce re-admittance for the same issue and then transition with the aging parent into home care and then onto long term care.
We developed a fantastic platform with a mobile product that allows facilities to provide updates on their patients. Whether you are a nurse on the move or an out of province family member all can receive real-time updates regardless of location. It’s simple to use and easy to navigate regardless of technical skill level.
2) What’s your story?
I come from a family that has been operating long term care facilities for over 25 years. We currently operate 65 beds and have developed an expertise in communication within our industry.
Recently our family faced a situation that many families have been in and many more will experience. We had to place a loved one in long-term care. Watching the transition, seeing the different levels of grief and guilt they felt was rough. Our family spans over 3 provinces which only added to the stress of trying to involve everyone. For our family, there was comfort in knowing our loved one was going to a family run facility
But many of us are faced with this dilemma of how to care for our aging parents. As their care needs increase and the need for care grows, families are weighed down with guilt and fear the unknown when having to place a loved one into a care facility.
We identified these problems to be consistent amongst facilities and families. Families feel guilty for having to pass on the responsibility of care. For the facility, its very time consuming and disrupts that flow of care when staff have to stop and provide updates to each family, to add to this many facilities are still using paper and pen.
3) What’s next for you?
We are presenting eChart Healthcare and its product at Propel ICT Pan-Atlantic Demo Day in Halifax on November 29th 5-8pm at Pier 21. We are getting ready to launch our pilot program. We are also looking for other community partners who have a desire to join the care facilities and families together in this much-needed way. We are looking to partner with more long-term care facilities, home care agencies, and hospitals. This is an exciting time for our government to partner with new innovation that will not only allow them to achieve platform items but will impact and strengthen the sectors that provide care to our most valuable and vulnerable community members- our seniors.