The following is an overview of some of our most exciting projects. Please contact us to learn more or inquire about how we can help your project be a success.
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Innovative Home Services Solution
43 million U.S. adults provide an average of 20 hours a week and spend $5,000 to $12,000 annually on caregiving activities for a family member or friend. Until now, it has been impossible to fully trust someone that we would like to hire to help us perform at-home services. MataiNet delivered an exciting new solution "TaskAssure" using AWS cloud SaaS API and native mobile phone apps. TaskAssure allows caregivers to ensure that the person they hired is actually the person that goes to the home, and monitor progress during the task. TaskAssure was also adapted to other service sectors such as property management, child care, and pet care. Details...
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Insurance Enterprise Management System Modernization
The largest dental insurance provider in the State needed to replace a legacy desktop Enterprise Management System based on Sybase PowerBuilder with a more modern browser-compatible system using .Net, c# and Oracle. The original system was more than 20 years old, built in-house by the IT team. The company sought to replace the system with browser-based UI, private cloud services, and improved scalability, while maintaining a high-degree of security and HIPAA compliance. Of course the business departments had assembled a great deal of functional updates that needed to be considered. MataiNet was engaged to help build and guide the Agile development and delivery process and generate user stories, test plans, and defect reports. Details...
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Patented Online Forms Services
A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) "Real Choices" grant provided University of Hawaii and Hawaii Department of Human Services with the resources to explore helping constituents navigate the complex world of benefits. At the time, health and human services agencies had been slow in adopting Internet capabilities. We led efforts to build community working groups and identify priority needs. A repeated need was to help constituents applying for benefits by not only providing online application forms, but also automatically filling data that the user had previously provided. A solution was created that could map data from one form to another form securely, greatly reducing user data entry. Our technique was awarded a U.S. patent. Details...
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Systems Change Strategic Planning
Hawaii Department of Health, Honolulu Elderly Affairs Division (EAD) is the primary agency for aging services in the State. They are responsible for coordinating operations of the four counties, and statewide management and reporting to Federal agencies. The counties generally aspired to use common systems and similar processes, but over the years differences had evolved, and the result was inefficient and occasionally inaccurate reporting. MataiNet reviewed the systems and processes used by all four counties and the state, and formulated a strategic plan for updates. Details...
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Person-Centered Hospital Discharge Planning
South Carolina Lt. Governor's Office on Aging (LGOA) engaged MataiNet to help generate a proposal for CMS grant for patient centered care transitions. We collaborated with LGOA, the Appalachia Area Agency on Aging, University of SC School of Medicine, Spartanburg Regional Hospital System, SC DHHS, and many community service providers. The proposal led to an award, and MataiNet engagement was extended to act as technology innovation lead, including research of various solutions and refinement of our proposed concept into a final implementable form. Our role also included expanding SC’s ADRC, so that it could be leveraged in the patient centered model. Details...
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Statewide Open Source Aging and Disability Resource Center
MataiNet consultants have a long history developing solutions to help agencies and providers to serve their constituents and patients more efficiently. One of our latest projects is the creation of a set of portals for the Hawaii Executive Office on Aging and the four counties of Oahu, Maui, Kaua'i and Hawai'i. We are excited to provide for them the first ADRC solution based on open-source and social media technologies. The agencies will maintain much of the content on their own with easy-to-use content management features. The Hawaii ADRC websites were launched recently. They are compliant with national standards, and designed for usability for older adults and people with disabilities. UPDATE Spring 2011: MataiNet's Hawaii ADRC platform was substituted for another, less accessible and proprietary system. Details...
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Accessibility and Usability Design
With its strong background in user-centered design and accessibility, MataiNet often helps organizations understand and implement systems that provide equitable access to all people. Older adults and people with disabilities CAN access systems if they are built correctly. The effort to build accessible systems is the same as building inaccessible systems, so it doesn't make sense leave out this important design requirement. MataiNet provided training and design services to Hawaii Department of Health "Disability and Communication Access Board" (DCAB). Training was also provided to other agencies. Details...
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Care Transition Interventions for Kauai
Kauai Agency for Elderly Affairs (KAEA) was challenged by slow client response times and occasional lost or misfiled client information, and needed assistance to identify and implement improvements. In addition, KAEA had received a grant for Care Transitions Intervention (CTI) and sought assistance to incorporate tracking of patient services into their processes and facilitate efficient grant reporting. During this seven month engagement MataiNet provided management and technical support to KAEA to assess various challenges and institute improvements in client intake and tracking processes. Details...
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Hawaii Centers for Independent Living (HCIL) Modernization
MataiNet and HCIL collaborated to build new capabilities that will benefit older adults and people with disabilities, and the caregivers that support them. Some of the exciting components we are exploring include:
- Use of video conferencing to provide cost-effective coaching, monitoring, and support
- Collecting data from simple sensors for vital physical measurements such as weight, glucose, and respiration
- Automation of field staff with smartphones and "pads" to improve efficiency, quality and accountability
- Social networking to facilitate exhange of information and services for long term care support
- Online video with closed captions and transcriptions to leverage the power of the human story
MataiNet hopes to pilot our iCarePAD™ as part of the HCIL modernization program to demonstrate the potential value of simple, ubiquitous information access for those in need of coaching, monitoring and tracking. With the current economic climate and growing population of older adults and disabilities, the timing seems perfect for this venture! Details...