To be presented at AMIA 2018 Symposium - Session  S53: Oral Presentation on November 5, 2018 from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM.

Yuri QUINTANA, PhD^1,2, Darren FAHY¹,  Bradley CROTTY, MD⁴, Ruchira JAIN¹, Eli KALDANY¹, Maxwell GORENBERG¹, Lewis LIPSITZ MD^2,3, Diane ENGORN³, Jorge RODRIGUEZ MD^1,2, Alex ORFANOS¹, Adarsha BAJRACHARYA, MD¹, Juan HENAO, MD¹, May ADRA, PharmD¹, David SKERRY, Warner V SLACK MD^1,2, Charles SAFRAN MD^1,2
1Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
³Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA
⁴Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

With an increasingly elderly population, families are finding it increasingly challenging to coordinate care for their older family members. This paper reports on the findings of InfoSAGE, an online private social network that has tools for communication and care coordination for elders and their families. The InfoSAGE system has 257 registered users; 52 of these opted into an in-depth longitudinal study. A descriptive analysis of these early participants, the online family networks, and barriers to participation that were encountered are presented.