Home Care Path Wisconsin Governors Business Plan Contest Matching

Home Care Path is preparing their submission for the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest.  It will be important to communicate how the Home Care Path multisided platform provides digital access for service specific matching.  This is a consumer driven tool designed to benefit the large population working in the growing elder care industry.

Supportive home care is a non-medical service that can be categorized in the Tech Industry as a health related service.  The need for supportive home care is well documented in the Care Coordination literature being followed  by Hospital and Nursing Home Administrating bodies.

Large Electronic Health Record software suppliers have been driven by regulations - a federal mandate in 2009 ordered Hospitals to adopt Electronic Health Records by 2014.  The Home Care Path multisided digital platform is not driven by enacted federal regulations- but rather by the consumer population seeking a faster- better way to find help to keep their elder family member safe in their own home.

The Home Care Path digital platform matches supportive home care workers with families needing staffing in real time.  This is leveraging digital technology to improve a families ability to have their elder safely receive in home supportive care.

Home Care Path Wisconsin Governors Business Plan Contest Buyer Seller Over Lap

Home Care Path is preparing their submission for the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest.  This involves communicating the benefits to the multisided digital platform.  It will be helpful for those reviewing the submission to understand how the Home Care Path digital platform is designed to facilitate buyer - seller over lap.

Buyer- seller over lap is activity where the digital platform is able to steadily convert some of their customers in to providers.  This is growth producing activity that assures over all sustainability.   This digital platform has a cross sided connecting virality - meaning either side brings in both customers and providers.

Example:  A family care (customer) giver needs time off for a wedding and connects with supportive care staff on the digital platform to help out.  The supportive care staff (providers) explain the easy utilization of the digital platform - and when the family care giver's duty to family reaches completion the person offers their service as a provider on the digital platform.  The consumer converted to a provider.  Now marketing their service through the digital platform to their base across social media sites and community connections.

A provider is called on by their family to help with urgent elder care needs.  The provider soon realizes the help needed requires more than one person.  The provider (customer) connects with supportive care (providers) staff through the digital platform to fill the need.   The provider converted to a consumer.  The consumer can now explain the means to access help through the digital platform reaching their base across social media sites and community connections.

The ability to use the digital platform is easily demonstrated - creating cross side opportunities - where either side brings in both customers and providers. This is organically inherent in the utilization process which strengthens the over all digital platforms sustainability.

Home Care Path Wisconsin Governors Business Plan Contest Medical Need

Home Care Path is preparing their submission for the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest.  Part of this will involve communicating how the digital platform will benefit the medical providers throughout the State.

Medical providers are the hospital and nursing homes serving the local community.  This medical delivery is dependent upon Medicare and Medicaid funding to meet their tight budgets.  The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Administrators have enacted regulations that require a patient to present very ill to quality for a paid stay in the hospital - nursing home setting.

The Medical providers - the hospital and nursing home staff realize a patient may need more help at home - but does not present ill enough to be admitted for medical care.  Insurance funds want the patient population spending most of their time recovering at home supported by non-medical staff.  The Home Care Path digital platform creates a way for the patient not meeting level of care to access help for the home setting.

Finding non- medical help at home for a patient discharging from a hospital - nursing home setting has become more important than ever.  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have enacted regulations that limit reimbursement for a patient who is readmitted to a hospital - nursing home within 30 days of discharge.  This means the patient that returns to the hospital - nursing home for care within 30 days of discharge - consumes non- reimbursable service.  This is a huge unexpected expense for the hospital - nursing home and can lead to loss of a location.

Medical providers are realizing the responsible tasks of discharge must involve assisting the patient to access non- medical service that can help at home.  The Home Care Path digital platform is an inclusive modal that creates access across underserved areas.  This is a community health intervention aimed at supporting improved outcomes.  This is care assurance at the community level with activity that strengthens reimbursement for local hospital and nursing home providers.

Home Care Path Wisconsin Governors Business Plan Contest Define Users

Home Care Path is preparing their submission for the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest.  It will be important to communicate how the consumer population would use this newly developed technological system.

List who would use this new Home Care Path digital multisided platform?

- All types of supportive home care workers who could access through smart phone, tablet, or laptop computer devices.

- All seniors looking for help to stay home could access through smart phone, tablet, or laptop computer devices.

- All public and private resource managers could access through smart phone, tablet, or laptop computer devices.

Will it be easy to use?

In 2018 Home Care Path successfully tested the digital platform prototype - having staff post their availability.  The staff were able to update or repost listings very quickly - and any where their device allowed them to access the digital platform.  This is a tested proven digital tool designed to improve the ability of care givers and seniors to connect in real time.

Home Care Path Wisconsin Governors Business Plan Contest First Call

Home Care Path is preparing their submission to the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest.  This involves establishing a digital platform designed to improve a families access to supportive home care staff in real time.

In the senior care industry supportive home care is the first called in to help.  A supportive home care provider can do most anything a family member would do if they could be there.  Supportive home care is non-medical so health insurance does not reimburse for this service.

Supportive home care staff perform the tasks that keep the household running - this assures the elder can remain in their own home.  With the aging of our population the need for supportive home care workers is rapidly growing.

The Home Care Path digital platform will be a technological tool that helps the supportive home care worker and the family with an elder who needs a hand right  now - connect.

Home Care Path Wisconsin Governors Business Plan Contest Staffing Stages

Home Care Path is preparing their submission for the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest.  The submission will involve a digital solution capable of serving consumers throughout the stages of the Supportive Home Care Cycle.

This Home Care Path digital platform will be essential because the consumer's perception of need is the primary factor driving the delivery of supportive home care service.  Implementing the Home Care Path approach lends a logistical foundation to what can be described as an investment for the consumer.

The supportive home care cycle reveals the predictable pattern inherent in all ongoing delivery:

Stage One: Start of care , very few hours for care giver

Stage Two: Too much for one person , requires the addition of more staff

Stage Three:  End of life , need more staff , trying to cover over nights and weekends

The certainty throughout the stages of the supportive home care cycle is the ongoing need to staff the hours that can assure the senior's right to remain in their own home.  Home Care Path is implementing a technological tool designed to support a families ability to procure care throughout the stages of the supportive home care cycle.

Home Care Path Wisconsin Governors Biz Plan Contest Outside Insurance Contract

Home Care Path is preparing their submission to the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest.  This submission will involve improving family access to non-medical supportive home care outside of the insurance contract.

This is enabling individuals who have experience delivering non-medical supportive home care to offer a cash price for families seeking elder care assistance.  This is a nimble and practical digital platform that can maximize efficiencies serving a population of independent non-medical supportive home care providers.

This facilitates private self pay transactions while strengthening real time matching which improves over all productivity.  The automating aspect of new consumer intake frees up time for the care giver to perform more hours of paid service.