Mayo Clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org and Kaiser Permanente are partnering https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org to enable more patients to receive acute level of care and recovery services in the comfort, convenience, and at home if they need care with serious and/or complex illnesses.
The Medically Home Group https://www.medicallyhome.com, a Boston-based technology enabled services company, Mayo Clinic, and Kaiser Permanente seek to expand access to this unique model and are encouraging health systems and care providers to adopt the home care model.
By building capacity to meet rapidly increasing demand while addressing regulatory and legislative barriers, the partnership will allow more patients across the U.S. to safely receive high quality acute and restorative care in their homes.
Medically Homes’s one-of-a-kind technology and services platform enables providers to address a significant range of clinical conditions at the higher end of the clinical acuity spectrum for the patients typically treated in traditional hospital settings to be treated at home. The conditions treated in the home can include routine infections and chronic disease exacerbation, emergency medicine, cancer care, acute level of COVID-19 care, and transfusions.
Key features of Medically Home’s virtual and physical care delivery model includes a 24/7 medical command center staffed by clinicians and an integrated care team in the community to deliver care to patients at the bedside.
The care delivery program within the command center uses information which is integrated into the patient’s EHR to include:
- Required protocols for high acuity care in the home
- Rapid response logistics systems
- Integrated communication, monitoring, and safety system technology
- The software platform called Cesia® Continuum
The combination of patient demand for consumer-centered models and technology innovations, the need for flexible capacity within hospitals, as well as the regulations allowing nonhospital space to be used for patient care during the COVID-19 emergency, gave rise to hospital care in the home setting.
Nonprofit organizations such as Adventist Health, ProMedica, and UNC Health use Medically Home’s model of care. Medically Home also partners with the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in their randomized clinical trial which involves using oncology care in the home. The group is also working with partners such as Huron and Cardinal Health.