From Duct-Taped Systems to a Real Platform
The founder started this Midwest-based monitoring center five years ago with a clear mission: help seniors age safely at home through technology instead of institutional care. The monitoring center grew quickly — 320 clients across central Florida, three shifts of monitors running 24/7, and partnerships with a dozen equipment dealers.
The technology they monitored worked beautifully. The software they ran their business on was a different story. Alert management lived in DICE. Client records lived in a custom Access database. Dealer requests came in by email and fax. Timesheets were in Excel. Billing was a monthly nightmare of cross-referencing event logs against service hours in QuickBooks.
"We were monitoring our clients with cutting-edge sensors — and running our business on duct tape."
The breaking point came when a state auditor flagged incomplete documentation on 23 events in a single quarter. Management knew the responses had happened — his monitors had handled them — but the paper trail had gaps. The calls were made but never logged. The follow-ups happened but were noted in someone's personal notepad. It wasn't a care problem. It was a system problem.
Six weeks after implementing OneHermes, the monitoring dashboard consolidated alerts from DICE and Manitou into a single, priority-sorted view. Monitors stopped toggling between three screens. Response times dropped 40% — not because the team worked faster, but because they stopped wasting time finding the alert.
Every action — every call, SMS, WhatsApp message, every escalation — was auto-documented as it happened. When the next audit came, The team didn't scramble. He pulled the report in two clicks.
The dealer portal transformed patient onboarding. Partners submitted requests online. The internal workflow routed approvals. Installation was scheduled the same day. No re-entry. No faxes.
And the billing? OneHermes generated invoices automatically from documented events, pushed them to QuickBooks, and submitted claims to the MCO. In the first month alone, they recovered $14,000 in events that had previously gone unbilled.
"For the first time in five years, I feel like I'm running a business — not just keeping one alive."