ARH’s Home Hospital Program

The Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARN) https://www.arh.org in Lexington KY, selected Biofourmis’ https://biofourmis.com solution for a Rural Home Hospital program launched by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

ARN will be using Biofourmis technology to support a new program that is going to deliver acute hospital level care inside patients’ homes, including a clinical trial to study this care model in rural areas.

Today, rural areas similar to the region that ARH serves face greater healthcare access challenges in terms of lack of specialized care, diagnostic testing, and hospital beds with nearly 80% of rural America deemed medically underserved by the federal government.

Biofourmis is supporting ARH and other health systems with their turnkey end-to-end care at- home solution. The Rural Home Hospital enables 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 will include patients with heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, gout, chronic kidney disease, and other medical issues. For the research study, roughly half of the participants will receive facility-based inpatient care and the other half will receive home-based care.

ARH providers will visit patients in their homes and use Biofourmis’ technology to remotely monitor them through biosensors and a patient-centric companion app. Continuously streaming data from wearables and electronic patient reported outcomes (ePROs) are then fed into the Biofourmis AI powered Biovitals® Analytics Engine, to establish a personalized patient baseline via machine learning to deliver real time notifications to providers as patient conditions change.