Tufts-Medically Home Partnership Program

Description

Tufts Medical Center and the technology-enabled services company Medically Home partnered to develop a remote patient monitoring program that provides hospital-level care in patients’ home called the “Tufts-Medically Home partnership program.” Eligible patients must have a safe, stable place to live and be suffering from common chronic and infectious conditions such as heart failure, diabetes, pneumonia, or kidney infections. Medically Home provides all the equipment to the patients home (communications devices, monitors, backup internet, cell signals and power source) and health care teams monitor each patient 24 hours a day from a “command center” and are accessible in real time to address complications and questions. The goal of the program is to provide hospital-level medical care for patients who are able to receive it at home, thus increasing patient comfort and also increasing capacity at hospitals so that beds are available to treat those more severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.