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.
Deployment boundaries are confirmed in writing
CareMAR uses AWS infrastructure, but account ownership, billing responsibility, data flow, and support access must be confirmed for each deployment during onboarding. This page does not promise a customer-owned account or a fixed AWS cost.
Business Associate Agreements and other legal terms must be signed by the appropriate parties before PHI is introduced. Continuity and export capabilities are limited to the controls documented for the deployed version; they are not an unconditional availability or no-lock-in guarantee.
The currently verified technical controls are listed 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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