Biofourmis has deep experience as a technology provider for hospital-level care at home, including the Home Hospital program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which co-developed Biofourmis’ Hospital@Home technology solution. Brigham’s clinical leadership has published several clinical studies demonstrating the benefits of its program, including a randomized clinical trial in the Annals of Internal Medicine that found the Home Hospital program reduced hospital admissions among participating patients by 70% and lowered costs by 40%.

Rural Health System of the Future


To date, most home hospital programs serve primarily urban areas. Over the next three years, the Rural Home Hospital project will apply lessons and processes learned from those earlier initiatives to help build, launch and evaluate a nationwide program to serve the unique care needs of rural residents across the U.S.

The Rural Home Hospital was created by a joint venture of the Harvard T. J. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts. Blessing Health System was one of only two U.S. participants selected out of a pool of 700 applicants. Rural Home Hospital will include patients with acute exacerbations of conditions such as heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, gout, chronic kidney disease and others. For the research study, roughly half of the participants will receive facility-based inpatient care and the other half will receive home-based care.

Blessing Health System is also one of 92 health systems in the nation to receive the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, with 204 hospitals in 34 states participating (as of March 17). The Acute Hospital Care at Home Program provides 1:1 Medicare reimbursement parity for hospitals that admit patients with a wide range of acute conditions to their homes. As with the Rural Home Hospital project, patients receive a combination of in-person and virtual visits from providers, as well as around-the-clock monitoring and communication.

“Health systems in every type of community in the U.S. are recognizing the clinical and economic benefits of safely and effectively delivering more care in the home, whether that is acute, post-acute or complex chronic condition management,” said Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO and founder of Biofourmis. “Blessing Health System serves a large geographic region, but by partnering with Biofourmis, together we will ensure that providers have the actionable data and tools to deliver highly personalized care regardless of where patients are located.”

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