In recent months, technology provider Sentrics has rolled out a contact tracing and case management platform, integrated safety lighting capabilities, added entertainment options, and debuted its latest feature: Engage 360, an engagement tool for in-room TVs.
Two-year-old Sentrics has grown rapidly to support more than 5,500 U.S facilities and communities, acquiring and integrating five nationally recognized brands, including Ciscor and Silversphere, as the basis of its Ensure360 product line.
“Sentrics was formed with a specific mission in mind — to improve the quality of life for residents by providing a 360-degree view of their physical, medical, social and behavioral health,” said CEO Darin LeGrange. “We knew from the beginning that to create this ‘whole-health’ view, we had to develop the first fully integrated Internet of Things, or IoT, platform.”
That venture was more fully realized with the fall launch of Ensure360, which combines sensors, sophisticated emergency call equipment and real-time location services to give community and corporate leaders new health safety tools. A key feature is integrated data tracking and analysis that predicts adverse events and preventatively alerts staff. It also integrates Luna Lights, an automated lighting service to help reduce nighttime fall risk.
COVID-19 has, of course, pushed more long-term care and senior living residents into isolation, so the latest Sentrics efforts offer providers more ways to keep them engaged. Engage360 can be used to provide music, mindfulness and other activities; convert a TV for telehealth purposes; and allow residents to chat and share photos with family.
Next up, says LeGrange, is Enrich360, described as an AI-based platform that correlates, integrates and analyzes thousands of data points daily to predict and help prevent adverse events.
From the November 2020 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
