Technology

Independa Closes Convertible Note Funding at $2.35 Million

Independa Closes Convertible Note Funding at $2.35 Million
with Kian Saneii
Kian Saneii, a veteran technology entrepreneur, founded Independa to develop easy, integrated technology solutions to help our growing elderly population age in place and joins the show to talk about Independa's recent funding news.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Kian Saneii discuss the following:
Congratulations on securing additional investments. How much new funding did Independa raise, and what does that bring total investments to?
Who supported the new funding round?
What makes Independa attractive to investors?  Can you give us a recap of recent milestones?
How will Independa use the new investment?
How is Independa leveraging emerging trends in wireless healthcare?
Do you have a closing tip for other startups that offer telehealth or telecare?


About Independa, Inc.
Independa offers integrated technology-enabled independent-living solutions for the elderly. Independa’s best-of-breed Integrated CloudCare services enable organizations and individuals to cost-effectively help the elderly to remain independent longer, safer and more comfortably. The company, which has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, provides holistic solutions that seamlessly operate across otherwise not connected devices, such as telephones, tablets, touchscreen computers and TVs. Services include medication and appointment reminders, support for activities of daily living, comprehensive social engagement benefits, and wireless health and safety monitoring.

Links:
Web: http://www.independa.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/independa
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Independa

Signs that it's time to consider assisted living for a loved one with Erwin Allado

Signs that it's time to consider assisted living for a loved one
with Erwin Allado
Erwin Allado, co-founder of SeniorCareHomes.com joins the show.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Erwin Allado discuss the following:
What are some signs that it's time to consider assisted living for a loved one?
Making the decision to put a loved in into the care of another can be a difficult process. How do you recommend that families who are considering this cope with the stress and anxiety of this transition?
What are some key things to consider and look out for when shopping for the appropriate facility for a loved one?
What is SeniorCareHomes.com, and what exactly can one expect to find when browsing your site?
How does the Care Home Search program work and assist with placement?


Erwin T. Allado - CEO and Co-Founder of SeniorCareHomes.com
Erwin has been a corporate executive and entrepreneur with a proven track record building Internet companies and growing customer-service and product-related corporations. It all began in college when Erwin was Founding Father of a community service-based fraternity where he was elected the 1st Chapter President. After college, Erwin joined PeopleSupport, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSPT), a California-based leading provider of customer care and business process outsourcing (BPO). He was promoted to Operations Supervisor after 3 weeks on the job and was later sent overseas to build-out PeopleSupport's global operation.
At the age of 21, Erwin was the Department Head of Customer Service Operations and played an intricate role in growing the center from approximately 20 to 400 employees. Now the company is in 38 global locations with 38,000 employees.  One of the primary responsibilities included transitioning over 20 U.S. accounts (leading Fortune 500 Companies such as GE Capital, Expedia, Nokia, Network Solutions/VeriSign, EarthLink) to the Asia center and supporting its growth in becoming profitable in the 1st year of operation.
After his tenure at PeopleSupport, Erwin consulted directly for the CEO of Linksys (NASDAQ: CSCO) and was key in the build out of their customer care center in Asia. Erwin then returned to California where he switched careers in search of challenging himself and learning a completely different side of business. Erwin joined Beverly Hills Financial Group, a premier brokerage firm providing financing for major entertainment and sport celebrities. As Vice President, Erwin built his business from the ground up and achieved numerous accolades such as "Highest Gross Sales Revenue since 2000," "Top Sales Producer" and "Hardest Worker" awards all in the same year.
Born in Southern California, Erwin holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Loyola Marymount University. Erwin is married and is a proud father of 2 wonderful children. He volunteers his spare time to the Alzheimer's Association, Knighs of Columbus and is on the committees for UCI MIND, Holy Trinity Catholic Church and now Serra Catholic's Miracle Blossoms.
Erwin has always had a deep respect for elders and a devotion to always take care of them in appreciation of how they raised him. SeniorCareHomes.com is a perfect fit for Erwin as he brings forth his experience and passion to give back to the community including the less fortunate.

Links: SeniorCareHomes.com

Transforming how healthcare is delivered with Odyssey Solutions

Transforming how healthcare is delivered with Odyssey Solutions
and Jeff Garibaldi
Jeff Garibaldi, Sr. Director, Global Marketing / Product Strategy and Business Development for Odyssey solutions at Stereotaxis, Inc. joins the show on the Tele-Health & Technology Channel.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Jeff Garibaldi discuss the following:
Tell our listeners a little about yourself & your background.
Please explain what your company does.
Please explain the Odyssey platform.
Could you break down What are the benefits Odyssey?
How are health professionals using latest technology to care for patients effectively?
How is Odyssey related to Tele-health?


Stereotaxis’ Odyssey™ portfolio of products provides an innovative enterprise solution for integrating, recording and networking interventional lab information within hospitals and around the world. Odyssey™ Vision integrates data for magnetic and standard interventional labs, enhancing the physician workflow through a consolidated display of multiple systems and eliminating the challenge of interacting simultaneously with many separate diagnostic systems. The Odyssey Cinema™ Studio then captures a complete record of synchronized procedure data that can be viewed live or from a comprehensive archive of cases performed. The Odyssey™ solution then enables hospitals to efficiently share live and recorded clinical data anywhere around the world to attract patients and promote collaboration.

In addition, Stereotaxis also designs, manufactures and markets an advanced cardiology instrument control system for use in a hospital's interventional surgical suite to enhance the treatment of coronary artery disease and arrhythmias. The Niobe® Remote Magnetic Navigation System is designed to enable physicians to complete more complex interventional procedures by providing image guided delivery of catheters and guidewires through the blood vessels and chambers of the heart to treatment sites. This is achieved using computer-controlled, externally applied magnetic fields that govern the motion of the working tip of the catheter or guidewire, resulting in improved navigation and reduced x-ray exposure. For more information on the Stereotaxis Remote Magnetic Navigation, please click here
The core components of the Stereotaxis systems have received regulatory clearance in the U.S., Europe, Canada and elsewhere.

Links: odysseyexperience.com & stereotaxis.com

AtTask simplifies and makes IT more efficient with Ty Kiisel

AtTask simplifies and makes IT more efficient
with Ty Kiisel
Ty Kiisel, Manager Social Media at Attask, Inc. joins the program. As an “accidental” project manager and marketing veteran with over 25 years of experience, Ty writes about project management, leading teams, and basically getting work done.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Ty Kiisel discuss the following:
How does AtTask deliver Meaningful Use compliance projects and help hospitals keep up with other government initiatives?
HIPAA’s claim of “administrative simplification” actually complicates IT.  How does AtTask simplify and make IT more efficient?
In a project like Meaningful Use that has a defined deadline, what are the best practices for managing resources, tracking the different teams within the project, prioritizing and maintaining focus?
Ad hoc work requests can be the downfall of any project, how does AtTask help manage these types of requests and keep teams on track to meet key deadlines?
In big projects like Meaningful Use, where cross-functional teams – virtual teams (v-teams) from cross-department and cross-hospital working together on long or short-term initiatives, projects, or goals there are a number of issues and challenges with making those work effectively.  What are the best practices for managing all of these cross-functional teams?

Ty Kiisel, Manager Social Media at AtTask, Inc.
As an “accidental” project manager and marketing veteran with over 25 years of experience, Ty writes about project management, leading teams, and basically getting work done. Ty makes the concepts and best practices of managing project-based work accessible to both the expert and novice (or accidental) project professional by weaving personal experiences, historical references and other anecdotes into discussions around effectiveleadership approaches that maximize the effectiveness of project teams.
There are a few areas where Hospital IT is facing unprecedented challenges from hundreds of new government compliance projects that need to be resourced and managed. These mandates are further taxing already over-capacity hospital IT departments.   The only way hospital IT can achieve the added workload is to do more with less and become strategic with current resources.
His blog, Strategic Project Management, is syndicated daily on Alltop, CIOZone, Gantthead, and IT Toolbox. He also writes a weekly blog for Forbes. His weekly podcast, TalkingWork, introduces successful work management practices with an entertaining and informative format including interviews with industry experts and successful business leaders.

Links: hospitals.attask.com

Major issues that telehealth can address with Diversinet's Dr. Hon Pak

Major issues that telehealth can address with Diversinet's Dr. Hon Pak
Dr. Hon Pak, a visionary healthcare IT executive, who is using his medical and technology expertise to help Diversinet strengthen its leadership in “powering care coordination through mobility" joins the show.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Hon Pak discuss the following:
What does Diversinet do?
What are the major issues that telehealth can address?
What solutions or approaches are emerging?
How can mobility play a role in promoting adoption of these solutions?
What are the key challenges to wider adoption of mobile healthcare, or mHealth?
Tip:  Mobile healthcare needs to be integrated into a healthcare ecosystem that fosters care coordination and patient engagement.

Dr. Hon Pak is responsible for the operation of Diversinet, with a focus on providing healthcare organizations with an agile mobile application platform for secure messaging. He was formally appointed Chief Executive Officer in February after serving in that role on an interim basis for two months. Dr. Pak also serves on the company’s Board of Directors.
Combining extensive medical and technology knowledge with strong leadership experience, he brings to Diversinet the accomplishments of a distinguished 28-year career with the U.S. Army. Dr. Pak recently retired as Chief Information Officer of the U.S. Army Medical Department, an $11 billion healthcare system with more than 60,000 employees. He was the Army’s first Chief Medical Information Officer prior to his promotion to CIO. In addition, Dr. Pak has headed the Advanced Information Technology Group within the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, the U.S. Department of Defense health IT research and development arm.
He is recognized for the design and development of a health IT strategy around patient-centered care and as an innovator who helped transform Army Medicine into a systems based organization. Dr. Pak also shaped a federal investment in electronic health record exchanges and health information technology for active military, veteran and civilian populations.
Dr. Pak previously served as president of the American Telemedicine Association, leading the effort on global health and standards development for telehealth. He holds a medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and completed a fellowship in dermatology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Pak is a distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy.

Links: www.diversinet.com

Technology solutions to help our growing elderly population with Independa

Technology solutions to help our growing elderly population with Independa
with Kian Saneii
Kian Saneii, a veteran technology entrepreneur, founded Independa to develop easy, integrated technology solutions to help our growing elderly population age in place and joins the show to talk about how it is working.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Kian Saneii discuss the following:
What is Independa, and what services do you offer?
What sets Independa apart from other companies that provide telecare for the elderly?
Why do you think that telehealth is growing so quickly?  What issues does it address for older adults who want to remain independent, and for their caregivers?
What are the major obstacles to wider adoption of remote monitoring and social engagement, particularly for the elderly?
How do you see the future of telehealth moving?
Tip: Telehealth needs to be integrated and holistic. Both caregivers and those who receive care need a simple, one-stop solution.

Kian Saneii combines expertise as a computer scientist and experience as a software executive with passion for bringing transformational technologies to market. He founded Independa in 2009 to develop and deliver products and services that help caregivers enable the rapidly growing elderly population to remain independent longer, more safely  and more comfortably. Featured in the March 2012 issue of Entrepreneur, he has led the company’s creation of a comprehensive, easy-to-use suite of Integrated CloudCare solutions.
Previously, Saneii was General Manager of Websense Wireless, responsible for launching and growing the wireless division from the ground up, including developing new carrier-centric technology and product lines, and establishing new global distribution partners. As Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Websense, Inc., he redefined the company’s market positioning and helped guide it to global market dominance. In addition to his responsibility for all aspects of global marketing, Saneii oversaw strategy, mergers and acquisitions, OEM sales, and business development. As the founding GM of Websense Wireless, Saneii expanded the company’s vision to encompass the wireless revolution from a new perspective, and established Websense Wireless as a carrier-grade supplier of transformational technologies to the telco/wireless ecosystem worldwide.
Before joining Websense, Saneii served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development at IPNet Solutions. In this role, he helped B2B supply chain businesses convert from using EDI to using secure supply chain collaboration and communication systems – introducing real-time information flow and eliminating significant waste throughout the chain.
Prior to his IPNet Solutions role, Saneii served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development for IMA, Inc., focusing on CRM solutions. Saneii transformed IMA’s call center solutions into customer interaction centers by integrating all customer interactions and data, redefining the entire market sector.
Earlier in his career, Saneii held management positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, DIS Research and FileNet Corporation (acquired by IBM).
Saneii earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, cum laude, from New York University, where he made Phi Beta Kappa and received the President’s Award. He earned a Master of Computer Science from Rutgers University.
He has played NCAA Division 1 Soccer, was Chief Driving Instructor for BMW Car Club of America’s New York Chapter, and has a Black Belt in Tae Kwan Do. Saneii lives in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., with his wife and two sons.

Links: www.independa.com