GE partners with Biofourmis to use AI to move patient care to the home

GE HealthCare and BioFourmis want to enable more patients to go home from hospital earlier. They hope to offer an alternative to hospital-based care, driving healthy behaviors by managing patients remotely using AI-guided algorithms to help deliver personalized care. Biofourmis offers home care tools to help remotely monitor acute and post-acute patients and a virtual specialty care platform. Its platform combines FDA-cleared AI-guided algorithms, clinical-grade wearable devices, in-home services orchestration technology and nursing services. This complements GE HealthCare’s current inpatient monitoring portfolio which support patient care in the hospital, extending the patients journey back into their home. The goal of the GE HealthCare-Biofourmis collaboration is to enable more patients to go home earlier, and offer an alternative to facility-based care, good for patients but it will help address current challenges faced by health systems including hospital capacity issues and clinical staffing shortages. Biofourmis recently announced partnerships with four undisclosed Big Pharma co's centered on developing digital biomarkers and safety monitoring algorithms in cancer trials. Biofourmis has also formed strategic partnerships with major health systems, including with Orlando Health for at-home hospital-level care, Beacon Health System for remote monitoring post-discharge, Augusta University Health to enhance Virtual Care at Home for emergency and inpatient efficiency, and WellSpan Health for a bundled program incorporating hospital and at home care

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