ACTS Retirement-Life Communities Case Study
Strategic planning to streamline and improve services, a strong commitment to investing in infrastructure changes and the early adoption of monitoring and point-of-care technologies have enabled ACTS Retirement-Life Communities to lead the industry in setting the standard of care.

Billings Clinic/Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association Case Study
How a Network of Providers and Telehealth Enabled Care to Rural Patients.

Cathedral Square Corporation Case Study
How 1 housing provider earned a seat at the table to influence state health care policy.

Ecumen Case Study
Since 2003, Ecumen has expanded its reach beyond its bricks-and-mortar campuses in an effort to establish a market niche among older consumers living in their own homes. The organization’s mission to empower older people and help them remain independent led to the adoption of a variety of technology products and services.

Eskaton Case Study
Investments in technology-related research and development helped Eskaton deploy electronic health records (EHR) and a sensor-equipped remote monitoring system, and build a national demonstration home featuring universal design, supportive technologies and “green” living features.

Evangelical Homes of Michigan Case Study
This Case Study discusses how Evangelical Homes of Michigan’s life care services at home and digital technology platform allow provider to break through and provide wellness solutions beyond bricks-and-mortar.

Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society Case Study
A Culture of Innovation Committed to Evidence Base Use of Technology.

Front Porch Case Study
The Front Porch Center for Technology Innovation and Wellbeing (CTIW) is a center of excellence within the Front Porch family of companies that collaborates with residents and staff-as well as researchers, academic insti-tutions and other care providers-to identify the needs of older adults that can be met with the help of technology solutions.

Jewish Home Lifecare Case Study
This case study shows how Jewish Home Lifecare uses technology in all of its service lines and in all components of its Community Service Division. It is currently in the process of rolling out technology-enabled services in its sub-acute unit.

Lutheran Homes of Michigan Case Study
This case study discusses how Lutheran Homes of Michigan extended medication management technology pilots to empower vulnerable elders.

Lutheran Homes of South Carolina Case Study
Technology initiatives at Lutheran Homes of South Carolina are grounded in the organization’s strategic goals and priorities related to improving the quality of care and services for our residents. Current technology initiatives include electronic health records (EHR) and a variety of care tracking software designed for specific care sectors like hospice or assisted living.

Mather LifeWays
Dr. Perry Edelman and his colleagues at the Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging have been working to assess the quality of life of people with dementia and developed a measure, called Observing Quality of Life in Dementia (OQOLD), which enables professional caregivers to assess the quality of life of persons with dementia based on their observations during a variety of activities.

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Case Study
EMR has helped MJHS’s home care agencies be more efficient with aggregated data to improve internal operations while the ability to provide customized data about outcomes to partners and payers a key success factor in a future environment that will most certainly include payment bundling, capitation, health homes and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO).

MorseLife Case Study
MorseLife employs a variety of technology in its provision of services and supports, including remote monitoring technology to help mitigate acute-care episodes, care documentation software that helps nursing assistants track activities of daily living, wireless networking technology in preparation for EHR deployment and a paperless employment application process that includes background screening and competency testing.

Presbyterian Senior Care Case Study
Presbyterian SeniorCare is preparing to extend its services into the homes of older people living in the community. Preliminary plans call for integrating a variety of technology devices into the organization’s non-medical home care agency and into an adult day health program that the organization is now expanding. A shared transportation service would link these two programs with the organization’s Longwood at Home program.

Providence Life Services Case Study
Providence Life Services (PLS) does not focus on calculating a return on investment for technology and instead relies on technology-enabled services to help make the organization more efficient and specifically looks for areas to eliminate any duplicate data entry by integrating as many existing systems as possible. However, it recognizes that the existence of an EMR or other technology does not guarantee greater efficiency unless the organization uses the EMR implementation period to standardize their procedures and processes.

Selfhelp Community Services Case Study
Once Selfhelp incorporated technology into its mission statement, it began to actively recruit new board members who had technology backgrounds and established a technology committee that is led by a technology champion. Staff members who are supportive of and familiar with technology were identified and called upon to convince others to give technology a try.

Volunteers of America Case Study
This case study discusses how Volunteers of America’s remote monitoring pilot improved quality of life, increased staff efficiencies and decreased care costs.