When Keane decided to set up his software business, he sat down with his father to discuss the biggest challenges faced by those running care homes. This provided the impetus for Keane to get cracking on developing two easy-to-use communications tools, Altra Staff which was launched towards the end of 2019 and Altra Family which followed a year later. “For family updates, [care] homes often use public social media accounts but this is unsatisfactory as it raises serious privacy and GDPR concerns. Our system is completely private, it ticks the regulatory and compliance boxes and it puts all the information in one place.”Staff and families are added to or invited to join the care home’s Altra account. “With Altra Family, they can post messages and photos which can be printed out to create weekly personalised newsletters.

Source: The Irish Times May 13, 2021 04:18 UTC