Company leader
Sundar Kannan
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
KanTime
Sundar Kannan is founder and chief executive of KanTime, an electronic record for home health, hospice, and personal care agencies, so one office can schedule a visit, write the note, and send the bill from the same system. An engineer who helped build a combat aircraft simulator in India, he turned to home care after watching an elderly woman wait on caregivers who did not show up.
Building an Aircraft Simulator in India
He is a first-generation immigrant from India. After a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's in industrial and process engineering in the United States, he returned to India and started an engineering design and manufacturing firm that helped build the first combat aircraft simulator for the Indian defense. The company went public in 1994.
Moving into Home Care
In 1997 he came back to the United States and started Kanrad Technologies, an information technology consulting firm that took on large software projects. In the early 2000s, visiting his business partner's ailing mother, he heard her complain that caregivers never arrived on time or lacked the skills she needed, and he saw how Kanrad's telephony software could fix agency scheduling.
Kanrad moved into home care in 2006 and took the name KanTime, added skilled home health in 2010, and later added hospice and pediatric nursing. "The key lesson I took away from these experiences is that the devil is in the detail, so analysis is extremely important," he said. The record lets an agency follow the same patient from personal care into home health and then hospice on one chart.