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Point of CareWare Inc. plans this summer to go after another round of venture financing to take its first data-gathering software product to market.
The Bellevue company is nearing completion of beta-testing software that captures information on all staff interactions with residents in assisted-living facilities.
Assisted-living facilities house elderly people needing help with such daily activities as bathing, dressing and taking medicine.
Point of CareWare CEO Gary Mulhair estimates the market for the company's product at several billion dollars.
Nationally, there are 12,000 to 15,000 assisted-living facilities, and as many as 100,000 post-acute (hospital) facilities, including assisted living communities, nursing homes and home-health organizations,...