Editor’s note: McKnight’s Home Care, McKnight’s Senior Living and McKnight’s Long-Term Care News are publishing focused articles on the 2023 winners of the McKnight’s Excellence in Technology awards Nov. 29 through Dec. 5. Look for the nomination period for the 2024 awards program to open in May.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors living at home were especially vulnerable to isolation and loneliness. Seeing a problem, Emerest Connect sought to find a solution using its home care technology. Its efforts resulted in a Gold award in the Tech Partner of the Year category in the Home Care track of the 2023 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology awards.
Using data and analytics, Emerest Connect utilizes a proprietary algorithm and machine learning to create patient groups based on clinical and behavioral health data, personal backgrounds and social determinants of health. Through that process, healthcare professionals are better equipped to resolve client issues such as loneliness and isolation, depression and anxiety, as patients are grouped appropriately to improve their social connections.
A core part of its offerings is a studio that provides engaging, educational and enjoyable content to enhance social interaction for elderly and homebound patient groups. As a two-way technological tool, patients can directly engage and communicate with their peers, caregivers and expert healthcare professionals. Emerest Connect partners with home care and specialized care agencies to enhance their services across behavioral health, social work, medication management, remote patient monitoring, nutritional health and on-call doctor visits.
“We are honored to be recognized by McKnight’s Tech Awards,” CEO Josh Klein said. “Our mission at Emerest Connect has always been to imagine the possibilities that telehealth, if utilized through a patient-first lens, can bring to serve our most vulnerable populations — the elderly and homebound. This award is a testament to that work, and I am excited to see our program expand and evolve in the years to come.”
Other award winners in Home Care’s Tech Partner of the Year category:
Silver: Outset Medical offers a sleek, intuitive and user-friendly Tablo Hemodialysis System, which offers an alternative to conventional home hemodialysis machines that often are too complex for most patients to master.
Bronze: Viventium prides itself on moving the bar for what home care agencies should expect from their payroll and human resources providers.
Read about other 2023 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology award winners in the Home Care track on the McKnight’s Home Care website, in the Senior Living track on the McKnight’s Senior Living website and in the Skilled Nursing track on the McKnight’s Long-Term Care News website.
Sponsors of the 2023 McKnight’s Tech Awards + Summit include LifeLoop, IntelyCare, MatrixCare, PointClickCare and ShiftKey + OnShift.To view the virtual awards presentation and recordings of the Summit webinars, visit mcknightstechawards.com (free registration required).
