CareZone.com - (a site for caregivers)

I received this from a friend of mine this morning and wanted to make sure as many people as possible saw this and were able to use it. As we age, and as I am personally seeing my medicine cabinate expand with pills which I never thought I would have to take, getting all that info into one place is a godsend! Read what Tony has to say and check out CareZone.com. 

Don't know if any of you saw any of the recent articles about Jonathan Schwartz's new startup but it was in the local paper a little while ago and I'm checking it out so I thought I'd share some information.

CareZone.com is a site for caregivers. If you've got an ailing parent, a chronically ill child or relative or a friend who you look after, you might wanna take a look at it. It's a secure web-based service that gives you tools to keep track of medicines, doctors, appointments, record notes, keep track of wills and orders and so on. You can "invite" others in and give them access to the information you have there (limitable to some extent but I'm not sure how granular). And, of course, you can also remove invited people. If there are several of you that need to communicate (siblings, baby sitters, nursing home personnel, etc) you can carry on discussions with them through the journal associated with each person under care. And you can give the person under care access to the information, too.

It's a paid service -- there is no advertising and no social media connections. This kind of stuff needs to be private and CareZone recognizes that a free service's customers are the advertisers. There's an interview done by Robert Scoble (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYYl9D_bJHg) which is a fairly good overview. Supposedly, it'll cost $5/month (or $48/year) and will let you "care" for some number of people (it seems that you can have virtually unlimited observers/invitees but a limited number of people for whom you care on a single account).

Granted, my information so far is a little sketchy but I wanted to get the information out ASAP because if you sign up before March 17 you will get a free year of service.

The site's still fairly limited but it's a start, especially if you've got a lot of information to manage and a few people that are involved in the care.