Blessing Health System https://www.blessinghealth.org selected Biofourmis, https://www.biofourmis.com a leader in virtual care and digital therapeutics, to work with Blessing Health System’s program delivering acute-level hospital care inside patients’ homes in rural communities.
Blessing Health System, an integrated rural health system spread over three states (Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa) consists of three hospitals, two physician groups, a credited college of nursing and health sciences, a network of medical specialty businesses, and a charitable foundation.
Biofourmis is supporting Blessing Health with their end-to-end home hospital solution for participation in the Rural Home Hospital project. This new program allows caregivers to deliver hospital-level care in patients’ homes across a range of acute conditions instead of admitting them to a medical facility.
The Rural Home Hospital project makes it possible to optimize capacity, provide for higher patient satisfaction, lower readmission rates and hospital-acquired conditions, as well as a reduction in the overall cost of care. For rural communities, home hospital programs also reduce patient and family travel burdens and out of pocket costs associated with facility-based care.
Blessing Health System providers visit patients in their homes and use Biofourmis technology to remotely monitor their patients using biosensors and a patient-centric companion app. The technology is continuously streaming data from wearables and electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes ePRO).
The information is then fed into the Biofourmis artificial intelligence powered Biovitals® Analytics Engine which establishes a personalized patient baseline via machine learning and then delivers real time notifications to providers as patient conditions change.
Over the next three years, the Rural Home Hospital project will apply lessons and processes learned from earlier initiatives to help build, launch, and evaluate a nationwide program to serve the unique care needs of rural residents across the U.S.