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About Us

Who We Are - Under the umbrella of Su CASA Enterprise, Inc., we are also better known as Su Salud en Su CASA™ as a leading integrator of Home Health Monitoring, Referral/Consultation Telemedicine, and First Responder/ Emergency Telemedicine solutions focused on value-added commercial, residential, and government applications.

Since 1999, Su Salud en Su CASA has pioneered the integration of healthcare technologies that allow clinicians to remotely treat and manage patient health regardless of geographic and time barriers (see Accomplishments). Through its unique technologies, Su Salud en Su CASA offers a broad range of standard and customizable Telehealth solutions for use in remote diagnostics, connecting primary hospitals with specialist located at tertiary level institutions. Su Salud en Su CASA's Home Health Applications enable remote monitoring of chronically ill at home patients with diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and post-acute care.

Su Salud en Su CASA has a modest goal to become a world leader in the integration of healthcare technologies for both the commercial, residential and government sectors. Su Salud en Su CASA's clients include leading healthcare systems, hospitals, clinics, government agencies, home nursing agencies, and healthcare clinicians throughout the United States and around the globe. In addition to a broad commercial base, Su Salud en Su CASA is well-recognized throughout Texas, and since 2000 has lead healthcare technology research initiatives with the goal of improving the quality of healthcare provided to those with chronic health problems and across the full continuum of health services in the management of health status. From its early days as an integrator of Telemedicine solutions, its development of real time applications to better integrate home monitoring products, Su Salud en Su CASA has successfully built upon its pioneering tradition of R&D to become a global healthcare technology leader in the integration arena and converting those technologies for expanded use in commercial and residential markets.

Merging Clinical & Technology Expertise

Su Salud en Su CASA has assembled an experienced team of clinical professionals consisting of general and specialist practitioners; registered nurses, biomedical engineers; and hospital administrators. Working in close coordination with Su Salud en Su CASA's talented technology team, these seasoned professionals are guiding extraordinary efforts to develop and deliver superior integration of existing home health monitoring products and services that meet or exceed customer and regulatory requirements.

With a proven history of success in the exciting and evolving field of Telehealth, Su Salud en Su CASA is uniquely positioned to maximize value from ongoing technological advances - and transfer that value to the success of your home and/or business. Client satisfaction is our top priority and we strive to understand each client's culture and needs; focus on activities that add value to our products and eliminate those which do not; build lasting relationships and anticipate customer needs to achieve a competitive edge, and be your technology partner of choice.

The Su Salud en Su CASA Legacy Founded by President and CEO Charles Cortez, MPH -an industry visionary in merging technology and medicine into a single Telehealth solution-Su Salud en Su CASA has remained privately owned with increasing revenues and profitability each year. Since its introduction to the home monitoring segment, Su Salud en Su CASA has been aggressively pursuing its new line of home monitoring products, and plans to quickly emerge as a premier integrator of home health monitoring technologies.

Project Background

PHASE I. Project Background
This project is intended to address the current needs of information technology and research ways to improve on value and performance through economic impacts, technology interaction, and health monitoring approaches with deployment of technology as a utility.

This project will focus on home health monitoring functions, determine and describe health monitoring and the seamless integration, and detail a definition of required management utilities to include wireless, media, environmental, and security. Research objectives include the following:

• Development of a public shareware database to manage and track health information including but not necessarily limited to cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure, body mass index and weight, nutritional assessment and will be required to feed into standard application suites for presentation and interpretation.
• Posture solutions for inclusion onto comprehensive information technology servers to enhance health monitoring functions by expanding the availability of technology beyond traditional methods and offering solutions in the form of utilities.
  

The results of this project are intended to demonstrate that better technology solutions for improved health monitoring functions need to be leveraged in a cost efficient approach and remains as the prominent driving force to provide effective solutions that are both practical and affordable. The ability to bring configured networks, tracking of routine health status indicators, and wireless utilities adds a dimension of monitoring intelligence that most consumers have never had in the past.

Part I: Identification and Significance of the Innovation
With some 76 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 heading toward retirement, emerging technologies likely will help care for this aging baby-boomer generation. Technology is already being used to help keep tens of millions of older people in assisted living situations a lot safer. The National Association for Home Care in Washington, D.C., conducted several clinical trials of distance monitoring of blood glucose levels by computer and found improved outcomes in diabetes care.

[1] Similarly, trials of distance monitoring of blood pressures showed enhanced efficiency. Focus of this project will target the development of a shareware database management system to integrate devices for glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure and heart rate already available over the counter at most distribution centers and pharmacies. Consideration will be to evaluate the respective management of information strategies, transfer and archiving of data for longitudinal presentation and interpretation.

As long as consumers view technology as a necessity, we must all search for ways to support technology devices proliferating here, there, everywhere. Many consumers no longer ask if they should smart wire their homes but are left with what to do with it after its done. Yet, no home or office today has been able to advise consumers on all the various pieces that make up the technology enterprise.

[2] Because technology is quickly becoming a specialty, it is vitally important that criteria standards are in place for the seamless integration of future technologies. Monitoring health care functions and the targeted solutions need to be carefully crafted with the ability to be postured as a utility, and that every consumer can take charge and break away from the status quo with regards to proliferation of technology. To do this a community-wide network configured in a ‘server’ environment to centrally support health monitoring is proposed. Standardization is equally paramount to illustrate that such a server can be configured in ways to accommodate many of the current management functions and technologies, ensure security, disaster recovery, wired and wireless protocols, bandwidth management and truly bring intelligence for consumers and into the mainstream market.

Accordingly, there is no other choice but to evaluate the best and carefully crafted solutions for consumers. While not every consumers needs to have a computer, technology can help provide hidden functions for the passive consumer. Clearly, today both active and passive consumers are left with finding their own way of managing all the proliferation of health monitoring technology.

The time to act is clearly now. The intelligent home is perched on the edge of rapid growth, in much the same place personal computers were before they took off and became common consumer purchases. [3,4,5] What needs to be in place to drive that serious growth? Most obvious are mass-market prices that bring the technology within the range of more homeowners. Those prices will be driven by both standardized, secured server appliances and multiple uses of the technology to make the purchase more compelling. For instance, a single system that supports home health monitoring. security, entertainment and computer connectivity is naturally far more appealing to the cost-conscious mid-tier buyer than separate systems for all three functions.

We are in a period of transition that yearns to be molded into a period of progress. Tools need to move beyond pilot programs that allow self monitoring and make the most sense when impacting the level of cost for care requiring nurse or physician attention, creating opportunities for intervention, and empowering people to take ownership of their health status. This project will bring the critical mass of experience that makes adopting these tools a strategic necessity – the new home utility.

Part 2: Objectives
Medical devices, products and technologies are converging to revolutionize home- and self-care health systems in the United States, making it possible for people to play a greater role in maintaining their own health. These systems are geared toward a prevention-oriented, consumer-driven model for health care that includes innovations such as "smart devices" that can "think" for themselves, customized wearable devices, and wireless Internet-linked systems--all expected to deliver convenient, user-friendly, intelligent health care in the home.

For consumers, this could mean convenience in time and travel and reduced health-care costs, and--it is hoped--result in home-care systems that teach people to monitor themselves with gizmos that give timely warnings of illness so that they can turn to their physicians early--when intervention will do the most good. For doctors, it could mean more efficient--and effective--health care driven by patients who take greater responsibility for their own health.

OBJECTIVE 1: is to develop a state-of-the-art shareware database to manage and track all home health information including but not necessarily limited to cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure, body mass index and weight, nutritional assessment and will be required to feed into standard application suites for presentation and interpretation.

Part 3: RESEARCH PLAN
Inititial inquiry seems to illustrate there is no one manufacturer that provides home health monitoring technologies to track Glucose, Blood Pressure and Heart Rate, and Cholesterol in a single comprehensive integrated system. [6] In order to evaluate the integration features of the various monitors from different manufacturers, it is expected that these monitors will need to be acquired for the purpose of developing interfaces for the passing of data read-outs to a centralized workstation or server. Some monitors may have integration features with other proprietary knowledge –based systems. The value of any existing reporting and interpretation functions will need to be described and documented with regards to integration with other home monitors (ie. Glucose with Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, and Heart Rate).

The best model for monitoring glucose, cholesterol, and blood pressure is the expected outcome of this evaluation. Factored into the evaluation criteria will be cost of each monitor, robust functions, ease of integration, durability and cost for supplies, and other quality assurance requirements that address security, integrity of data read-out and accuracy, Each device will be evaluated for compliance with data transfer functions in both a wired and wireless mode.

Testing an integrated system for glucose, cholesterol, and blood pressure is requred. It is anticipated that realistic imaginary data can suffice for the testing and development of interfaces for this model without having to rely on real client or patient data. All devices will be required to capture no less than 5 read-outs with a maximum of 200. Data is to be transferred to a centralized database and review for accuracy, integrity, and duplicate data.

Migration to whole home health integration and monitoring will occur gradually in three stages. The technology delivery model of the future is envisioned to be predominantly home based in which home health monitoring technologies are provided in a manner that is convenient for the consumer --regardless of location within the home.

REFERENCES
[1] “Advanced Technologies to Lower Health Care Costs and Improve Quality”, Authored by Erica Drazen, ScD and Keith MacDonald, Massachusettes Technology Collaborative, October 2003 http://www.fcg.com/health-plans/news.asp

[2] “Smart Home Networks: The Fight for Control” ,In-Stat, (Report # IN020244RC), 2002. http://www.instat.com/

[3] “The Coming Explosion of Fiber to the Home”, by Derek Johnson, Chairman of the Communications and Education Committee - Fiber to the Home Council, 9/15/2003

[4] “Home Net Installation Market Big Business: Call in the Pros” by Toni Kistner, Network World, August 26,2002.

[5] “Digital Domicile 2003: Home Networking Goes Hollywood” by In-Stat, (Report # IN0301096RC), 2002. http://www.instat.com/

[6] “Table of Home Health Monitors, Manufacturers with Integration Features” by Charles Cortez, Currently in Development at Su CASA Communications, April 17, 2005.

Goals & Objectives

MAJOR GOALS & OBJECTIVES
Develop an automatic tracking and trend collection of information to interpret and report health status indicators including but not limited to Glucose, Blood Pressure and Heart Rate, Cholesterol both HDL and LDL and triglycerides.

CURRENT STATUS

• Identification of top 5 manufactures of home health monitoring technologies. Preliminary research indicates there is no one manufacturer that provides home health monitoring technologies to track Glucose, Blood Pressure and Heart Rate, and Cholesterol in a single comprehensive integrated system.
• Database to track Glucose, Blood Pressure and Heart Rate has been completed. Macro integration from tracking databases into standard home office suites such as EXCEL for reporting and graphing is completed.

SPECIFIC ACTIONS & TASKS

• Acquire monitoring technologies from at least 5 manufacturers for the purpose of determining the feasibility of data transfers from device to workstation. Outline each manufacturer protocol for data transfer, number of storage readings, cost for equipment and supplies.
• Explore the use of knowledge based systems including, but not limited to: the Internet, digitized libraries, to complement a tracking and assessment management system.· Enhance system in development for the inclusion of Cholesterol (HDL&LDL) and triglycerides tracking and interpretation.
• Determine the best model for cocktail of monitors based on price, integration features, robust functions, and test each modality for tracking, reporting and interpreting multiple test results.
• Establish a portfolio business case for self monitoring and reporting vs. multiple lab tests and physician visits for interpretation of glucose, cholesteral, and blood pressure readings.·
• Develop interface criteria for integrity, accuracy,update protocol and accommodation of wireless transmission
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How It Works

HOW IT WORKS

Keeping health care at home
Developments of all components of the Su Salud en Su CASA Home Health Monitoring Program and services are intended to provide you with the best of both worlds: the comfort and independence of staying at home, and the security of daily monitoring and proper medical attention.

Monitoring System Overview
Su Salud en Su CASA monitoring system is intended to connect — in-home patients and their monitoring units, senior living residents using multi-user monitoring units and assessment care nurses in the field; with healthcare professionals regardless of location.

Standard over the counter patient monitoring units regardless of manufacturer are required to record your heath measurement. All measurements as then called into an IVR telephone system with intuitive software to execute appropriate alerts, record and log measurements in chart ready formats, transmit all assessments and measurements to designated health care provider(s).

How the system works.
A patient using over the counter medical devices take their health measurements daily such as: weight, blood pressure, glucose, and cholesterol lipid panels. After completing the assessment, the patient simply calls the health assessment phone number and after proper pin identification, the patient responds to a series of assessment questions regarding the measurement to be reported. When the patient responds to s series of verification questions, the patient simply hangs up the phone and the monitoring session results are encrypted, compressed and sent to the central repository, and the database is updated with the results.

Once updated, built in interpretative functions evaluate the readings according to urgency and prepares the appropriate alerts and routed via fax, email, along with phone notification to the designated care givers, assisted living personnel and family members. After reviewing the data the clinician can then follow-up with a revised treatment plan with the patient.

Our Unique Technology
Software developers have traditionally developed software for use within an industry segment with only a superficial understanding of that industry. This approach has relied upon the principle that one solution fits all and the end user simply needs to adapt their daily practices to the developed software application. This approach does not work within the healthcare community, specifically as it applies to Telemedicine/Telehealth programs. Healthcare professionals have developed unique procedures, processes and protocols that are specific to their specialty and organizational structure. They expect and deserve technology solutions, including hardware and software that can adapt to their specific requirements, while supporting the delivery of quality healthcare without disruption to their current workflow process.

Su Salud en Su CASA uses a unique approach to software development that recognizes the need for solutions that can be easily adapted and rapidly deployed. Su Salud en Su CASA's integration platform employs a revolutionary and cost effective method of developing software applications that meet the specific needs and compliment and enhance the established workflow process. The Su Salud en Su CASA approach begins by asking the question: "What is your need and your workflow process," then develop with confidence a low-cost effective solution that is integrated with the established workflow process, thus eliminating extensive implementation and training programs.

Services and Programs

Home Health Monitoring
When you have heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol, it can be stressful not knowing how stable your health is on a daily ongoing basis.

You will find a multitude of over the counter health status diagnostic monitors available to the public varying in price and complexity. What many do not realize is that it does not take the most sophisticated monitor to be effective in tracking health status. In fact many do not know how easy it can be to take advantage of the most simplified and least expensive monitors available today.

A variety of over the counter monitors are available to help monitor your vital signs, symptoms including levels of glucose, cholesterol, hypertension, and medication use every day. With Su Salud en Su CASA you take your measurement on a daily basis and simply call it in, and you're done. Your measurements are automatically sent to the Su Salud en Su CASA monitoring service where Health Professionals can review your results and alert you, your family caregiver, doctor, or pharmacist of developing health problems before they become a crisis.

Su Salud en Su CASA also makes it possible for you or your loved ones to see how you're doing anytime, right from your own computers through a secured, automated website, SaludenSuCASA.com.

With Su Salud en Su CASA, you and your family get the reassurance of knowing someone is looking out for your health every day, helping you to stay out of the hospital.

Health Monitoring Services with Su Salud en Su CASA
Su Salud en Su CASA Home Health Monitoring Services provide subscribers, family caregivers, physicians, or pharmacists assurance of knowing someone is looking after the subscriber's health on a daily basis.

Su Salud en Su CASA Home Health Monitoring Services include Home Health Monitoring Center and SuSaludenSuCASA.com.

The Su Salud en Su CASA Home Health Monitoring Services works to collect objective clinical information, including vital signs, symptoms, and health self-assessment including measurements for

• glucose
• cholesterol
• blood pressure and
• weight management
  

Other Home Health Monitoring Devices include:

• Blood Pressure
• Weight Scales
• Thermometers
• Glucose Monitors
• Cholesterol Monitor
  

Su Salud en Su CASA Monitoring Programs
Su Salud en Su CASA Home Health Monitoring Programs are uniquely designed to focus on monitoring, self-care, education and guidance. Each program is designed to collect standard outcome measures, health status indicators including blood pressure, cholesterol, weight management, and glucose for diabetes management and Medication Therapy Management. All Su Salud en Su CASA Home Health Monitoring Programs are developed utilizing evidence-based guidelines and all of the guideline in our programs are certified by the NCQA (National Committee of Quality Assurance).

Su Salud en Su CASA Home Health Monitoring Programs contain three categories of questions that measure signs and symptoms, behaviors, and knowledge. Questions about signs and symptoms allow Su Salud en Su CASA Health Professionals to access the subscriber’s physiologic status. Behavior and knowledge questions provide data on a subscriber’s understanding and management of his or her health condition. The result is a unique model of care that captures the subscriber’s overall health status.

Everyone can benefit from daily monitoring of weight or vital signs. For more information on home health monitoring services, or to order the services for a patient, please call 281-419-2368 or 832-381-7373