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About CareMAR

Why a software engineer built eMAR for small facilities

CareMAR started with one question: why do 4-12 bed family-run care homes pay $400/month for the same eMAR systems built for 500-bed regional chains? They don't need the bloat. They need the audit trail.

The founder

Peter Lee is a senior software engineer at McMaster-Carr. Berkeley Cognitive Science 2018. Seven years at Amazon and Ring building distributed systems and identity infrastructure. AWS Solutions Architect certified. The same systems he built for Fortune 500s underpin CareMAR — only the customer owns them.

Three things small care facility owners told us

  • Status, not features

    Administrators trust what their peer facility uses. A demo from a neighbor administrator carries more weight than a glossy sales deck. We build for word-of-mouth, not paid ad impressions.

  • HIPAA risk-aversion is the #1 buying objection

    Every facility owner has watched a peer get cited for a MAR documentation gap. CareMAR is built so the audit trail is the default output — not an afterthought. 45 CFR § 164 safeguards are the floor we build on, not the ceiling we market.

  • State surveys create 90-day buying windows

    IDPH and equivalent state agencies survey every 12-15 months in Illinois. The 90 days before survey is when administrators actively replace paper MAR with eMAR. We schedule implementations around survey calendars — not ours.

The customer-owned AWS commitment

CareMAR runs in your AWS account. Not ours. The medication records, audit logs, and resident data live in infrastructure billed directly to your facility — typically $50-$80/month direct to AWS, separate from your CareMAR subscription.

If CareMAR goes out of business tomorrow, your software keeps running. Export anytime. No vendor lock-in. We have a Business Associate Agreement on file with AWS; you sign one with us. Your data flows from your residents to your AWS account — never through ours.

This is the architectural difference between CareMAR and every eMAR that came before. The math is on the security page.

What we won't do

  • Lock you into our infrastructure. Your data lives in your AWS account, full stop.
  • Promise outcomes we can't deliver. State-survey results depend on your clinical practice, not just software.
  • Mass-email facility owners. Every outbound is one-to-one.
  • Sell to enterprise chains. CareMAR is built for 4-40 bed facilities that don't need a 500-bed solution.

Talk to Peter

CareMAR has one phone, one inbox, one founder. Email hello@caremar.us and the reply will come from Peter directly, usually within one business day.

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