2016 Case Studies
How ABILITY Helped Enhance Quality Improvement Efforts at CommuniCare
A new CAST case study explores how ABILITY, a LeadingAge Silver Partner with CAST Focus, helped ComuniCare Health Services enhance its quality improvement efforts through technology solutions designed to monitor quality metrics and produce more accurate claims.
ProviNET Solutions Offers BHI Senior Living Access to the Cloud
A new CAST Case Study shows how CAST Supporter ProviNET Solutions gave LeadingAge and CAST Member BHI Senior Living access to a variety of integrated cloud-based technologies designed to improve BHI’s efficiency, ease the process of carrying out administrative tasks, and position the organization for growth.
HealthMEDX Helps Lutheran Senior Services Implement Strategic Vision
A new CAST Case Study describes how Lutheran Senior Services (LSS), a LeadingAge Member in St. Louis, MO, worked with CAST Supporter HealthMEDX to modernize its operations and transform care delivery by implementing a full-continuum electronic health record (EHR) technology platform.
A new CAST case study describes how the Francis E. Parker Memorial Home, a CAST Patron and LeadingAge Member in Piscataway, NJ, worked with Answers on Demand (AOD), now part of CAST Business Associate MatrixCare, to implement an electronic Liberalized Medication Administration Program.
EHR Implementation Model
A new CAST case study explores how PointClickCare, a LeadingAge Silver Partner with CAST Focus, helped Avante´ successfully adopt and utilize the advanced functionalities in its electronic health records (EHR) system.
Using Technology to Transform Dementia Care
A new CAST case study explores how CAST Supporter It’s Never 2 Late (iN2L) helped CAST Patron Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay (WCCBay)use technology to transform dementia care.
RiverSpring Health determine and BlueOrange Compliance Case study
This case study explores how CAST Supporter BlueOrange Compliance helped CAST Patron RiverSpring Health determine the likelihood of cyberattacks on its health information technology (IT) system, while recommending strategies to improve the system’s overall security.
2015 Case Studies
Selfhelp Community Services Case Study
This case study explores how CAST Patron Selfhelp Community Services established a technology-driven program called the Virtual Senior Center (VSC) to enrich quality of life for socially isolated homebound older adults.
ProviNET Solutions and Presby’s Inspired Life Case Study
This case study describes how CAST Supporter ProviNET Solutions worked with the information technology (IT) department at Presby's Inspired Life to build an independent, secure, and scalable infrastructure-hosting platform that maintains the integrity of the organization’s applications, databases, files, and user profiles. Presby’s Inspired Life is a LeadingAge member in Lafayette Hill, PA.
HP Case Study
This case study describes how Pioneer Center for Human Services in McHenry, IL, is using the Sprout all-in-one computer system from CAST Supporter HP to empower adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. CAST worked with HP to make the Sprout platform available to LeadingAge HackFest participants at the 2015 LeadingAge Annual Meeting in Boston.
Panasonic Case Study
This case study explores how the “On4Care Mobile” solution from CAST Supporter Panasonic was used to monitor the health of 22 older adults who were clients of Pleasantville Senior Center in Pleasantville, NY.
Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay and It’s Never 2 Late Case Study
This case study describes The Birdsong Initiative, a 24-week study to examine whether computer technology use can increase socialization and improve mental health among residents of nursing homes and memory support programs.
Ingleside Implements Portal for its Boards Case Study
This case study describes how Ingleside, a CAST Patron and LeadingAge Member in Washington, DC, implemented the BoardMax solution from Streamlink Software to improve communications with the 70 members of its 5 boards.
Miami Jewish Health Systems and BlueOrange Compliance Case Study
This case study explores how challenging it is to keep up with the complex requirements of federal regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
A case study describes how Western Home Communities, a LeadingAge member in Cedar Falls, IA, selected CAST Supporter It's Never 2 Late to help it use technology-driven engagement activities to improve care and quality of life for residents with dementia.
A describes how Illinois-based Lexington Health Network selected the Vision® Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform from CAST Supporter HealthMEDX to help it reduce hospital readmission rates, support the Meaningful Use efforts of referral partners, and position itself as the provider of choice within its referral market.
This case study describes how CAST Patron Evangelical Homes of Michigan developed a partnership with Ohio Presbyterian Retirement Services in order to serve clients of an Ohio-based accountable care organization who live in Michigan and Ohio.
2014 Case Studies
Mira Vista Care Center and eHealth Data Solutions Case Study
This case study tells how Mira Vista Care Center in Washington State engaged CAST Supporter eHealth Data Solutions to implement an Internet-based repository that allows skilled nursing settings and assisted living communities to log problematic events as they occur.
It's Never 2 Late and EMA Case Study
This case study tells the story of how LeadingAge Member and CAST Associate EMA engaged CAST Supporter It's Never 2 Late to implement a person-centered technology platform that keeps residents connected with the world while enhancing their health and wellness.
ProviNet-UMHNJ Case Study
This case study tells how United Methodist Homes of New Jersey, a LeadingAge Member and CAST Associate in Neptune, NJ, engaged CAST Supporter ProviNET Solutions to help it conduct a comprehensive information technology audit, develop a strategic technology plan, and implement an electronic health record at 5 senior living communities.
Northfield Retirement Community Case Study
This case study tells the story of how Northfield Retirement Community, a LeadingAge member in Northfield, MN, deployed the Healthsense® eNeighbor® remote monitoring system across a scalable wireless platform.
Kendal at Home Case Study
Kendal at Home engaged Independa to support their innovative Continuing Care at Home (CCaH) model, which allows older adults to live in their own homes in the community and receive coordinated services and support as they age in place.
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.
2013 Case Studies
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.
2012 Case Studies
Providence Life Services Case Study
Providence Life Services 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.
MJHS 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).
Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. Case Study
A thoughtful approach to increasing clients' comfort with technology to improve access to, and quality of care.
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.
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 institutions and other care providers-to identify the needs of older adults that can be met with the help of technology solutions.
Good Samaritan Society Case Study
The Good Samaritan Society expects technology-enabled services to help it meet its goal to engage with a broader population of consumers and is working on several projects such as EMR implementation, a review of health-monitoring technology through their LivingWell@Home program and the launch of a new Center for Innovation.
ACTS Retirement-LifeCommunities 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.
Cathedral Square Corporation Case Study
Cathedral Square Corp has worked hard to raise awareness about the important role that affordable housing communities can play in helping their residents age in place. The organization developed the Support And Services at Home (SASH) model, through which an interdisciplinary team of health professionals and service providers works at a housing site to help residents remain independent.