Mayo Clinic https://mayoclinic.org has announced a new care model that will deliver comprehensive and complex care to patients in the comfort of the home via a new technology platform. The Advance Care at Home Model offers infusions, skilled nursing, medications, laboratory and imaging services, behavioral health, and rehabilitation services from a network of paramedics, nurses, and support team members.
Last year Mayo clinic lunched the Mayo Clinic Platform, a coordinated portfolio approach to create new platforms and leverage emerging technologies to include artificial intelligence, connected healthcare devices, and natural language processing.
According to John Halamka, MD., President, Mayo Clinic Platform, “The Mayo Clinic Platform, in collaboration with Medically Home, https://medicallyhome.com has assembled the technology and expertise to deliver high quality, acute care in settings like the home.”
Mayo Clinic selected Medically Home, a Boston-based technology-enabled services company, as their implementation partner for the program as the service enables medical providers to shift advanced medical care to patients in their homes safely. This is accomplished by offering an integrated technology platform and network of in-home services which are directed by Mayo Clinic physicians and providers.
Also, Adventist Health https://www.adventisthealth.org, a faith-based, nonprofit integrated health system serving more than 80 communities on the West Coast and Hawaii, in collaboration with Medically Home ® and Huron, by using virtual technology to safely treat hundreds of COVID-19 patients in their homes.
Adventist Health Hospital@Home, will provide patients with care that will enable 24/7 virtual assessment and control from a remote telemedical command center, built and operated by Huron and staffed with Adventist Health doctors and nurses that have received advanced training with the new model. Medically Home’s CMO, Eliza Shulman, D.O. reports, “Clinicians are able to infuse medications, perform x-rays, and place central lines in the home.”
Adventist Health Hospital@ Home will initiate three Medical Command Centers inside their current hospitals that will be able to manage as many as 150 beds at homes in targeted service areas. Each service area will have Rapid Response Teams that can be deployed to patients at home when needed.
Bill Wing, Adventist Health President describes the project as an important window into the future of healthcare. It is intended to answer many of the challenges of modern healthcare, spurred by today’s immediate need to quickly expand hospital capacity.