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Dr. Piali De, Co-founder & CEO, Senscio SystemsWith an absolute focus on moving healthcare into homes, Boxborough, MA-based Senscio Systems developed an intelligent and interactive digital therapeutics platform—Ibis—to transform complex-care management and improve lives. At the heart of Ibis is Scio—a patent-pending Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine that gathers and contextualizes data and produces patient-and population-based insights. “Scio is the ‘brain in the box’ that understands the process of aging and the subtleties of various diseases that we detect exacerbations of,” delineates Dr. De. Scio’s compatibility with diverse data sources such as Senscio’s wearable sensor systems—Warbler Activity Sensor Suite— ensures that the patients’ location and movement data is fed into the engine to grant the care team access to key behavioral intelligence. The suite offers care-teams with 24/7 real-time monitoring to learn the usual activity routines of their patients based on behavioral patterns and detects anomalies, and issues alerts in case of exacerbations.
The Ibis care delivery model has been designed to identify and prevent gaps in care and reduce healthcare costs by amalgamating high impact relationship-based coaching and care-coordination with analytics. The Ibis care model enrolls members/patients in Senscio’s Centers for Personalized Care (CPCs) and offers services such as tele-monitoring, self-management support, early-intervention coordination, and personalized care.
The in-home technology and artificially intelligent interpretation of data elicits a rapid response from a patient’s clinicians in case of exacerbations to ensure health issues are addressed at home without the need for hospitalization.
In one instance, a leading healthcare provider leveraged Senscio’s solution to help Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients become habituated with their care. The experts at Senscio collaborated with the provider’s head pulmonologist and developed the early warning system for COPD. Having undergone multiple iterations, the perfected solution proactively detected the symptoms three to seven days prior to when patients themselves would detect a further aggravation in their medical condition, leading to fewer instances of hospitalization. “Going through a path-finding journey on what moved the needle for us, we realized it was both habituation and our ability to detect problems early on,” explains Dr. De.
Addressing a key workflow challenge of healthcare systems, Senscio has enabled a transition from a physician-based to a team-based care model to focus on five percent of the population accounting for 50 percent of the healthcare costs. An avid mountaineer, Dr. De’s mission-oriented style of leadership coupled with a unique motto of “start with an end in mind” translates into Senscio’s dynamic culture. With two centers dedicated to personalized care—in Freeport, Maine and Sioux Falls, South Dakota—Senscio Systems is currently focusing on the workforce challenges associated with the care of geriatric and intellectually disabled (ID) population. “Our Sioux Falls CPC would continue focusing on the ID population with experiments to induce structure into their lives while reducing the burden of care-giving,” informs Dr. De.
Company
Senscio Systems
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Dr. Piali De, Co-founder & CEO, Senscio Systems
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Combines sensor data with AI technologies to build intelligent systems for population health management
Senscio Systems News
Senscio Systems Expands At-Home Chronic Care Management Program into more States
HARVARD - Senscio Systems (Senscio) has announced that its groundbreaking Ibis Health program (Ibis Health) for chronic care management is now available in more New England states. Ibis Health is expanding into Connecticut and Rhode Island with an existing footprint in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Senscio Founder and CEO, Piali De said, “We are thrilled to be expanding the Ibis Health program into more deserving homes throughout New England. Our innovative at-home care system is easy to use and empowers older adults to live their best days with less medical interventions.”
Senscio is a digital healthcare company committed to the advancement of care for aging adults. Its Ibis Health offering is a care management program that runs on the AI-powered IbisHub™ platform consisting of a tablet that members use to receive care plan reminders as well as track vital signs, symptoms, and medication adherence. Ibis Health members work with Ibis Member Advocates who coach them on care plan adherence and lifestyle changes, plus help members navigate the health system and get access to preventive care services.
Ibis Health serves members with conditions such as, COPD, hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, arthritis, kidney disease, high cholesterol, depression, and anxiety. Older adults are disproportionately affected by chronic conditions. Nearly 95% have at least one chronic condition, and nearly 80% of have two or more. At the same time, Medicare expenditures are expected to grow from approximately $769 Billion in 2020 to $1.5 Trillion in 2031, driven by the aging of the US population and the burden of chronic disease.
In controlled trials, Ibis Health members have experienced 37 percent fewer hospitalizations; over 94 percent of them would recommend the program to others.
Senscio partners with an extensive network of healthcare providers, health plans and membership organizations including Prudential, Helper Bees and Aledade. In Massachusetts, the Ibis Health Program is made available to public retirees through formal partnerships with the Mass Retirees, an association that serves more than 52,000 public retirees, as well as Unicare, a division of Elevance Health and the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Agency (MIIA) a membership service of the Massachusetts Municipal Association.
Mass Retirees CEO Shawn Duhamel said, “For retirees managing chronic illnesses, less hospital visits and more independence is key to happier retirement days. Ibis Health is a fantastic and easy to use tool to help retirees manage their own health. If we can lower healthcare costs, while helping retirees live healthier lives, that is a true win-win”.
Daniel McIntyre, retired CEO of Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Connecticut said, “The Ibis Health program allows patients to be partners in their own care through education, access, ever-present monitoring, coaching as well as applied A.I. technology. At the same time, it lessens the burden on emergency and acute care settings. I am excited that this offering is being expanded to Connecticut and beyond. It is a gamechanger for patients and the entire healthcare system.”
David Potter, a Rhode Island native and former executive in Fortune 200 insurance companies who advises commercial stage healthcare ventures said, “Keeping older adults healthy and at home benefits Life, Health, and Long Term Care insurers who are looking for solutions for their plan beneficiaries that also significantly reduce insurers’ financial liabilities.