Bayshore partners with Sensory Technologies

LONDON, Ont. – Bayshore HealthCare Ltd. and Sensory Technologies Inc. have announced a national collaboration to provide eShift services. The companies will collaborate on joint opportunities around the implementation of the eShift platform, support of clinical personnel and patients within Canada.

Through the combination of Bayshore’s market leading clinical expertise and Sensory Technologies award-winning technology platform, the team will enable innovative directed care programs with health authorities, hospitals and community care organizations across Canada

Using eShift, virtual support teams are constructed, with a remote, registered nurse supervising and directing a team of onsite care technicians. Each clinician provides care to several patients, and through the use of the technology, updates their medical charts in real-time.

A unified, secure stream of patient information is created between the virtual support team members, allowing for immediate medical support and direction 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Both Bayshore and Sensory Tech see each of the next three years as opportunities to shape the healthcare sector’s roadmap in support of the need for transparency, patient access to care and information, alliances and innovation.

“Bayshore HealthCare is excited to be working with Sensory Technologies’ eShift platform,” said Elissa Gamble (pictured), national director, Bayshore Home Care Solutions. “Our clients can remain in the comfort of their homes, receiving the care they need, while the eShift technology provides our caregivers immediate medical support and direction as required.”

For its part, Sensory Tech looks forward to utilizing its eShift platform in support of Bayshore’s home and long-term care services and, by the use of eShift, augment existing programs through operational cost reductions, better reporting and improved quality of care.

Together, the two organizations will focus on solutions for Complex Child Care, Acute COPD and CHF sufferers, post-surgical patient transition to home and complex geriatric care needs, including palliative respite services for patients and caregivers.

“At Sensory Technologies, the core of what we do is remove the barriers for patients when it comes to the provision of and receipt of quality care from our healthcare systems,” said Andrew Matthews, vice president, Sensory Technologies. “We expect that this partnership with Bayshore will allow us both to dramatically improve the lives of the most fragile Canadian patients.”

About Bayshore
Bayshore HealthCare is one of the country’s leading providers of home and community healthcare services and is a Canadian-owned company. With over 100 locations across the country, including 60 home care offices, 13 pharmacies and 65 community care clinics, Bayshore has more than 12,000 staff members and provides care to over 200,000 clients. Its services are purchased by government care programs, insurance companies, workers’ compensation boards, healthcare organizations, the corporate sector and the public. The Bayshore brand extends across four business divisions: Bayshore Home Health (medical and non-medical home care and staffing services), Bayshore Home Care Solutions (home care services for government care programs), Bayshore Specialty Rx (specialty pharmacy, infusion and pharmaceutical patient support services), and Bayshore Therapy & Rehab (physiotherapy and rehabilitation services). The company’s goal is to enhance the quality of life, well-being, dignity and independence of Canadians of all ages. Bayshore HealthCare has been a recipient of Canada’s Best Managed Companies award since 2006. For more information, please visit www.bayshore.ca.

About Sensory Technologies
A privately held Canadian corporation located in London, Ontario, Canada, Sensory Technologies was incorporated in 2005 for the purpose of developing and marketing mobile healthcare enterprise systems for the healthcare market. Sensory Technologies provides systems that gives Healthcare managers, payors and their respective service providers the ability to implement new models of patient care based on remote multi-disciplinary care teams while supporting the established models of traditional visiting and shift care. In addition to their expanded care team solutions, Community Care Manager Enterprise provides the ability to capture, track, access, and analyze critical client care data, giving clinicians and business management unprecedented opportunities to affect profound changes, based on relevant clinical data, across the entire homecare system. For more information, visit www.eshiftcare.com.