As a component of the organization, the two organizations will likewise be giving significant subsidizing to both wellbeing and tech fields to help the up and coming age of installers and medical services suppliers.
“Together, Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham will create long lasting solutions that will support the rapid growth of the care at home market and all of those who play key roles in delivering quality care in the home to patients who need and deserve it.”
According to Mass General Brigham, the organization will work alongside Best Buy to “develop customized systems and capabilities to enhance the experience for patients receiving Home Hospital care as well as for the multi-dimensional care team that provides it.”
Additionally, Mass General Brigham will utilize which include Current Health, the company’s proprietary care at home platform, logistics management, service management, and Lively Mobile Plus, the company’s personal emergency response system (PERS) device.
Mass General Brigham asserts that this technology-enabled clinical delivery model will expand access to Massachusetts residents choosing to receive acute-level hospital care in the comfort of their home.
The collaboration also aims to address one of the biggest challenges the healthcare industry faces today — workforce shortages. According to Mass General Brigham, the care creates quality health outcomes, is popular with patients and caregivers and studies show it lowers mortality rates, reduces hospital readmissions and decreases lengths of stay.
Heather O’Sullivan, president of Healthcare at Home at Mass General Brigham sees the current collaboration with Best Buy as “building the integrated healthcare system of the future across the entire continuum of patient care needs.”
As part of this relationship, Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham will also engage with and make significant investments in the community to enable the next generation of the Healthcare at Home workforce.
This will come in the form of equitable, academic opportunities for individuals interested in pursuing nursing, paramedic and digital technology careers by offering scholarships to students choosing the at-home setting of care as their desired professional environment.
They will also work to bring care in the home to the forefront of curriculum within these industries to further support the growing home healthcare model.
While home technology and the CI industry has had a longstanding relationship with health and wellness as a concept, healthcare-focused technologies have been few and far between apart from a few niche elements found in products like Baracoda’s smart bathmat or Toto’s high-tech wellness toilet. In more recent years, however, health tech has made its interest in the CI industry more well known with moves like the high-profile acquisition of Sound United by healthcare tech company Masimo.
0 Comments