Like Family HOME CARE · ONTARIO · 2026
Better care for the people you love — every visit visible, every minute accounted for, every story shared.
One platform · Families · PSWs · Nurses · Coordinators
Home care today

Care happens. But no one sees it.

A loved one is alone for hours. A PSW shows up — maybe on time, maybe not. Vitals are scribbled on paper. Notes get lost. The family three provinces away has no idea how Mom is doing today. The coordinator juggles a spreadsheet. The auditor finds gaps. Care suffers because no one has the full picture.

The old way
  • Paper forms, illegible handwriting, lost notes
  • Family kept in the dark — no live status
  • No GPS proof of visit — fraud risk
  • Routes built by hand — wasted fuel, late arrivals
  • No trends — vitals seen one visit at a time
  • Audit panic when PIPEDA inspector arrives
Like Family
  • Every visit digital, structured, encrypted
  • Family sees the visit live — delays included
  • GPS check-in + anti-spoofing on every visit
  • OR-Tools routing — fuel, time, CO₂ saved
  • Wellness trends with one tap — shareable with the doctor
  • 7-year audit log, 100% logged, encrypted at rest
One platform · four apps

Built for everyone in the circle of care.

Like Family connects four audiences on the same record — so the PSW at the door, the nurse on the road, the coordinator at the desk, and the family across the country are all looking at the same truth.

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Family Portal

Live visit status, wellness trends, shared documents, messaging with the care team.

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PSW / Nurse Mobile

GPS check-in, voice notes, vitals, MAR, wounds, SOAP, signatures, all offline-ready.

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Admin Dashboard

Smart scheduling, OR-Tools route optimization, live map, KPIs, intake, billing-ready exports.

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Compliance Core

PIPEDA · PHIPA · 7-year audit log · Fernet-encrypted documents · on-prem AI.

For families
See the care
as it happens.
Open the family app and your loved one's day is right there. The next visit, who's coming, the door knock, the check-in ping, the vitals that just came in. Better care begins with better visibility — and finally, your family has it.
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Today's schedule, live Who is visiting, when, for how long — and whether they've arrived.
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Delay alerts If the PSW is running late, you know before Mom does. No more wondering.
Visit complete summaries Tasks done, mood, energy, nutrition — a digest in your hand, every single time.
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Family living away A son in Vancouver, a daughter in São Paulo — same dashboard, same minute, same peace of mind.
Today · Mom
Live schedule
In progress
Marie · PSW
Arrived 09:04 · Bath, breakfast
Delayed 10 min
Sarah · RN
Expected 13:10 · Wound dressing
Scheduled
David · PSW
17:30 · Dinner, evening routine
Family · Live In progress · delays · ETA
Wellness evolution
The story of
their health, shareable.
Every vital, every wound photo, every clinical assessment, every SOAP note — captured visit-by-visit and plotted into a single living chart. Share it with the family doctor in one tap. Spot a downward trend three weeks before it becomes a crisis. This is what continuity of care looks like.
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Vitals trending BP, HR, temp, O₂, RR, glucose, weight — auto-flagged when out of range.
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Wound healing timeline Timestamped photos + PUSH/Braden scores show the wound healing — or not.
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Cognitive & ADL tracking MMSE, Katz ADL, mood, nutrition — the long arc of how they're really doing.
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Share with the doctor PDF export with one tap — physician sees the same chart you do.
Vitals · 30 days
Margaret K. · 84
Avg BP
128/76
Wound stage
PUSH 4 ↓
Mood
😊 7/10
Care team chat
Talk to the people
actually caring for them.
No more phone tag. Send a message to the PSW, the nurse, or the coordinator — they read it, they reply, you see the receipt. Ask about today's meals, flag a concern, schedule a call. Transparent communication is the foundation of better care.
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Threaded conversations One thread per patient — no more digging through emails.
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Read receipts Know when the care team has seen — and replied.
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Flag a concern Mark a thread "needs attention" — the coordinator sees it at the top of their inbox.
Post-visit feedback Rate every visit. Quality improves because the loop is finally closed.
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Marie · PSW
online · typing…
Mom ate the whole oatmeal today 😊 sat in the garden 20 min, mood great.
Thank you Marie ❤️ Can we add yogurt at lunch?
Yes — already on tomorrow's plan ✓
Family ↔ PSW Real conversation, real receipts
For PSWs & Nurses

More care. Less paperwork.

Field staff don't go into care to fill out forms. Like Family removes the friction so they spend their time where it matters — at the patient's side. A clean schedule, an optimized route, voice notes that write themselves, structured forms that take seconds. Better tools means better care.

Today
7 visits · 38 km
Next · 6 min
M. Kowalski
10:00–11:00 · 142 Maple St
R. Patel
11:30–12:00 · Vitals + meds
G. Tremblay
13:15–14:15 · Wound dressing
Schedule Next-up card · navigate · check-in
Active visit
M. Kowalski
Personal care
✓ Bath ✓ Dressed ✓ Oral care
Vitals
BP 132/78 · HR 74 · O₂ 97%
Voice note
🎙 1:42 · ✓ transcribed
Active visit Tasks · vitals · voice
Route map
Optimized · saves 22 km
7 stops · 38 km · ends home
Route OR-Tools optimized · dynamic
GPS-verified visits
Every visit,
provably real.
A 100-metre geofence auto-checks in the PSW when they're actually at the door. GPS coordinates are stamped at start and end. Anti-spoofing math watches the trail — impossible speeds, teleports, mismatched fixes — and flags suspicious patterns before billing goes out. No more time theft. No more disputed visits. No more excuses.
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Geofence auto-check-in 100 m radius · no manual clocking · iOS fresh-fix logic.
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Anti-spoofing detection Haversine vs. elapsed-time check catches impossible movement.
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Speed-anomaly alerts Coordinator sees a flag before the visit gets billed.
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Court-grade audit trail 7 years. Every check-in, every check-out, who and when.
At the door
Checked in
09:04:27 · 142 Maple St
GPS verified · within 18 m
Auto check-in Geofence · proof of presence
Voice in. Text out.
Talk to the app
like a colleague.
Tap the mic, talk for two minutes, and the visit note is already typed. Our on-prem Whisper GPU transcribes about 20× faster than real time and never sends your voice to the cloud. State-of-the-art AI, zero PHI leaving the building. Care notes used to be the slowest part of a visit — now they're the easiest.
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On-prem Whisper GPU RTX 3060 · cuBLAS · ~20× faster than CPU · CPU fallback when needed.
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Zero PHI leaves the building No OpenAI, no Azure Speech, no third-party cloud — your patients stay yours.
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Edit, sign, attach Transcript drops into the SOAP/note field — edit, sign, done in seconds.
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Document import & OCR Photograph a doctor's order or insurance card — text extracted, encrypted, attached.
Voice note · 1:42
Transcript · 1.3 s
Patient appeared comfortable. BP slightly elevated at 138/82, will recheck tomorrow. Wound on left heel showing granulation — photo attached. Daughter requested an extra evening visit Wednesday.
Voice → SOAP 1:42 audio · 1.3 s transcript
Clinical depth

A nurse's toolkit, in a pocket.

Everything the field clinician used to carry on paper — now structured, validated, time-stamped and instantly visible to the rest of the care team. Auto-scoring on the validated assessments. Out-of-range vitals flagged with recommended action. Wound photos that build a real healing timeline. The clinical bar gets raised.

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Vitals

BP · HR · temp · O₂ · RR · glucose · weight · auto-flag out-of-range.

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MAR

Medication administration record · dose · route · time · adherence trend.

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Wound care

Location · stage · exudate · bed composition · photos · PUSH score over time.

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SOAP notes

Subjective · Objective · Assessment · Plan — voice-fed, structured, searchable.

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Validated assessments

Braden · Katz ADL · PUSH · MMSE — auto-scored, trended, exported.

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Incident reports

Falls, behaviour, safety concerns — escalated to the coordinator in real time.

Signatures & consent
Real signatures.
Real consent. No paper.
Visit acknowledgment, consent forms, care-plan agreements, medication consent — all signed on screen, attached to the visit, time-stamped and PIPEDA-tracked. The signee's name, relationship (patient · spouse · child · parent · guardian · POA) and signature type are stored together. Audit-ready the moment the pen lifts.
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On-screen signature capture Stroke-by-stroke vector capture, base64-stored, never an image of a signature.
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Signee identity Name + relationship recorded — patient or proxy clearly identified.
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PIPEDA consent log Data collection · sharing · marketing · research — each consent + revocation tracked.
Visit acknowledgment
M. Kowalski · 09:04–10:02
Signed by: Anna K. · Daughter · 10:02:14
✓ Attached to visit · PIPEDA logged
Signature Patient or proxy · audit-ready
Smart scheduling
The schedule builds
itself.
One coordinator can run hundreds of visits a week — without a spreadsheet. Like Family matches the right staff to the right visit based on skills, certifications, zone, availability and continuity-of-care preferences. Auto-assign batches, detect conflicts, suggest replacements, and surface fairness in real time so the same nurses don't quietly burn out.
One-click auto-assign A week's worth of unassigned visits placed in under a minute.
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Skill & cert matching A wound dressing won't be assigned to a PSW. A bath won't waste an RN.
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Fairness dashboard Hours per staff, week by week — equal opportunity, no burnout silos.
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Continuity of care The same PSW comes back where it matters — patients see familiar faces.
Auto-assign · 47 visits
Week of June 2
Marie L.
31h
Sarah R.
28h
David P.
33h
Aisha M.
27h
João S.
29h
✓ 47 / 47 placed · 0 conflicts · σ(hours) = 2.3
Route optimization · OR-Tools VRPTW

Less driving. More caring.

Google's OR-Tools Vehicle Routing solver with Time Windows runs over a self-hosted OSRM distance matrix. Visits get ordered to minimize kilometres and respect every time window — start home, end home, lunch break included. Routes rebuild dynamically as the day changes: a cancellation, a delay, a new urgent visit — the field staff get a fresh sequence in seconds.

−24%
kilometres driven vs. manual
−18%
fuel + CO₂ emissions
+1.4
extra visits per staff per day
<3s
to re-optimize a full day
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Self-hosted OSRM distance matrix No Google Maps API bill, no third-party data leakage — your routing is yours.
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Dynamic re-route Cancellation? Urgent add? The next visits reflow without the coordinator lifting a finger.
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Savings, surfaced Every optimization shows km saved, time saved, and projected fuel/CO₂ reduction.
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Home-to-home logic Honours start-home and end-home preferences — staff aren't stranded across town.
Live operations
A command centre
for the whole day.
The coordinator opens one screen and sees the entire field: every PSW on the map, every visit's status, every alert, every supply request, every patient whose vitals just went out of range. KPIs trend in real time. The whole organization stops reacting and starts running.
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Live map Every staff position via WebSocket — fresh every few seconds.
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KPI builder Visits today · completion rate · utilization · continuity · trending 7/30/90 days.
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Alert panel GPS anomalies, missed check-ins, out-of-range vitals — escalated, never lost.
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Supply queue Requests from the field → approval → order → delivery, fully tracked.
Visits today
142
In progress
38
Completion
97%
Alerts
3
On schedule Delayed Active visit
Intake & documents
From file folder,
to one tap.
Onboard a new patient in minutes. Snap photos of the doctor's order, the medication list, the POA, the insurance card — text extracted, fields auto-populated, originals encrypted at rest. Voice-import the referral call straight into the intake notes. Every document carries its category, its consent state, and its expiry — so you never miss a renewal.
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Photo → searchable text OCR extracts and indexes the content — no more digging through scanned PDFs.
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Categorized & encrypted Consent · care plan · assessment · insurance · POA · incident · doctor's orders · medication list · photo ID.
Expiry tracking Care-plan reviews, insurance expiry, POA renewals — alerts before they lapse.
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Voice-imported intake Talk the referral story into the app — transcribed, structured, ready to schedule.
Intake · Margaret K.
3 documents · 1 voice note · all encrypted
OCR done
Doctor's Orders · 2 pages
Dr. Tremblay · expires 2026-12-01
OCR done
Medication List · 1 page
9 active meds · cross-checked with MAR
Transcribed
Referral call · 4:21
Ontario Health at Home · CCAC #88421
Compliance & audit

100% logged. Zero excuses.

Ontario healthcare runs on PIPEDA and PHIPA. Like Family meets the strictest of PIPEDA, PHIPA, and HIPAA controls — by design, not by patch. Every action authenticates. Every PHI access logs. Every PSW only sees their own assigned patients. Every document encrypts at rest. Every transcript stays on-prem. The audit trail is court-grade.

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7-year audit log

Who · what · when · IP. PHI never logged in plaintext — 15 sensitive fields auto-redacted.

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Fernet encryption at rest

Documents and uploads encrypted on disk · key rotation supported · zero plaintext PHI on the server.

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Field-staff IDOR protection

PSWs and nurses can only see patients explicitly assigned to them — enforced server-side.

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Right to access · delete · port

PIPEDA-mandated data subject requests run on rails — access, deletion, correction, portability.

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Tokens in SecureStore

Mobile auth tokens live in iOS Keychain / Android Keystore — never AsyncStorage, never plaintext.

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No PHI in logs · URLs · errors

Query-string allow-list · error-message scrubber · Sentry before_send filter · zero leakage paths.

The side benefits

Better care happens to be cheaper, faster, greener.

When you remove paper, kilometres and friction from a workflow, the financial and environmental numbers fall into place on their own. Less printing, less driving, less duplicate data entry, less audit panic. More care delivered per dollar, per minute, per litre of fuel. Sustainable for the planet — sustainable for the agency.

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Paperless

Forms, signatures, care plans, charts — all digital. No filing cabinet, no lost notes.

Less fuel · less CO₂

OR-Tools cuts kilometres by ~24% — that's fewer tonnes of CO₂ over a fleet per year.

Hours back to care

Voice notes + auto-assign + auto-routing save the coordinator 10+ hours a week.

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Fraud prevented

GPS + anti-spoofing closes the time-theft door. Hours billed are hours delivered.

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Less phone tag

In-app threads with read receipts replace voicemail roulette.

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Earlier interventions

Trend alerts catch decline weeks before the ER does. That's care quality, measurable.

Built on premise
State-of-the-art AI.
Your data, your building.
Whisper transcription, OCR, route optimization, distance matrix, audit logging — all running on a single dedicated server we maintain in Ontario. No OpenAI bill, no Google Maps bill, no Azure bill. No third-party gets a copy of your patient's voice, photo, or address. The AI gets better. The compliance story gets simpler. The monthly bill gets smaller.
GPU
RTX 3060
Transcribe speed
~20×
Routing
OR-Tools
Map data
OSRM · OSM
Stack
FastAPI + Celery + Redis
Python 3.12 · async-first · 200+ tests
PostgreSQL 16 + Alembic
Versioned schema · zero-downtime migrations
Whisper (faster-whisper · CUDA)
On-prem transcription · CPU fallback
OR-Tools VRPTW + OSRM
Route solver · open map data · ODbL
Next.js 14 · Expo · React Native
Admin + Family + Mobile
The outcomes

Better care, measurable.

Numbers we've seen from agencies running the platform — or projected from the engineering.

62+
features across 4 apps
100%
of visits GPS-verified
−24%
km driven per day
+10h
coordinator hours back per week
~20×
faster than typing visit notes
7 yr
audit log retention
0
PHI bytes leaving the building
peace of mind for families
The promise

We treat them like family.

Because someone is doing it right now, somewhere in your city, for the person you love. Like Family exists so that every minute of that care is visible, accountable, kind, and shared with the people who deserve to see it.

The week the dressing didn't get done, the app told me before the wound did. We caught the infection three days earlier than we would have on paper. That's three days of antibiotics avoided. That's why this matters. — RN, home-care agency, Ontario
Let's deliver
better care.
Like Family is PIPEDA + PHIPA compliant, built on-premise in Ontario, and ready for your agency, your nurses, your patients, and the families who love them.
[email protected]
Developed by Gnu Scientia
On-prem AI · self-hosted maps · open data · PIPEDA · PHIPA · HIPAA-grade controls