Hearthstone

Home-care agencies may receive motion, fall, sleep or vital-sign observations from different household devices while coordinating many clients. The supplied research confirms mature facility-focused monitoring and usable sensor infrastructure, but did not find a direct pure-software aggregator for independent home-care agencies in its reviewed set. One referenced capability remains unverified.

Hearthstone binds every device and data stream to a client, lawful authority, consent scope and observation time. It builds a client-specific baseline and proposes anomaly candidates with source evidence, missing data and confidence. An authorized care-team member reviews the candidate and follows an agency-approved escalation protocol.

Sensor output is not a diagnosis, fall confirmation, emergency determination, proof of adherence or measure of caregiver performance. A sent family notification does not prove receipt or appropriate response. Observation, anomaly candidate, clinical or operational review, outreach decision, delivery, acknowledgment, intervention and outcome remain separate.

The first release should cover one agency, one low-risk sensor class and a read-only workflow. It must fail visibly when devices are offline, exclude employee scoring, avoid hidden cross-agency pooling and direct urgent concerns to existing emergency procedures rather than pretending the dashboard is an emergency service.

Clinical operations or care-coordination leader at an independent home-care agency supervising many consented clients