Continuum comes from a very personal place for me. Long before it became a company, it started with something I watched my own mother go through.

Years ago, my mother needed a back brace.

She had a primary care physician who had known her for years, an orthopedic surgeon, a home health team and a supplier. Everyone involved wanted the same thing: to get her out of pain.

But the brace took more than two weeks to reach her.

A referral was sent. Then another signature was needed. Paperwork moved between offices while her physician was seeing a full day of patients.

And my mother kept waiting.

What stayed with me was seeing her physician. He wanted to help, but there was only so much one person could carry between caring for patients, answering calls and keeping paperwork moving.

That was when I understood the real problem.

The people were not failing. The work between them was.

Everyone had one part of my mother's care, but nobody's job was to make sure all those parts came together and kept moving.

I wanted to change that, so patients would not have to suffer through the process and practices would not have to keep carrying that burden themselves.

That is why I started Continuum.

We take over the operational work that builds up when third-party ancillary providers become involved in a patient's care. We help keep that work moving, give teams visibility into what is still open, and give physicians more time to focus on their patients.