Electronic Caregiving

Founded in 2009, Electronic Caregiver currently serves over 15,000 patients — most of them out of state — with remote health monitoring, virtual medical checkups and care coordination, according the state Economic Development Department.

Presumably there are more companies of this type in the US, and more versions of implementing “electronic caregiving” under development. Remote health monitoring, virtual checkups, and care co-ordination each alone have the potential to be gigantic undertakings in the US economy, where healthcare shares a huge portion of the our economic activity.

One might consider ECG an example or startup model for what we will likely have nationwide in the not too far off future. It’s just one approach with a relatively small client base to date, where many approaches will be needed.

ECG certainly now has plenty of office space to expand in Las Cruces, and PSA hopes they will find ways to move their care model forward, and realize their ambitious visions. This sort of daring entrepreneurship is an important factor in realizing healthcare innovation’s potential.