Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham collaborate to meet patients’ growing Healthcare at Home needs
08 November 2023 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham are collaborating to
support a new model of healthcare delivery that serves patients
where they want to be — at home. Together, they will develop
solutions to support the transformational movement of shifting
healthcare to patients’ homes by improving how quality and safe
care are provided with technology and clinical expertise. Their
first priority is to scale and support Mass General Brigham’s Home
Hospital. 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. This
collaboration will also help address one of the biggest challenges
the healthcare industry faces today — workforce shortages.
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Mass General Brigham’s Home Hospital is one of the largest acute
home-based care models in the country and delivers care for
patients who would otherwise need to be hospitalized for conditions
such as heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD), infections and more. Through the care of nurses,
paramedics, advanced practice providers, physicians and other
clinicians, Home Hospital patients receive access to the same
best-in-class services received at Mass General Brigham’s
nationally recognized, award-winning medical centers. 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.
Additionally, Mass General Brigham operates the largest Medicare
certified home health business in New England, offering skilled and
supportive services for patients who are homebound during the
course of an illness or injury. Together, Home Hospital and Home
Care are components of Mass General Brigham’s overall Healthcare at
Home portfolio, which will now be supported by Best Buy Health.
Best Buy has a retail footprint of nearly 1,000 stores, a robust
digital retail experience through BestBuy.com and the Best Buy App,
and the ability to provide technology, omnichannel logistics and
human-centered support. With a proven track record of successfully
leveraging these assets to deliver positive outcomes, this
collaboration with Mass General Brigham furthers Best Buy Health’s
commitment to enable care in the home for everyone.
Improving the Healthcare at Home experience
Together, Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham will 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.
In addition to developing new solutions, Mass General Brigham
will leverage Best Buy Health’s existing technology and support
services, including:
- Current Health, the company’s care at home platform, which
connects patients to nurses, paramedics, advanced practitioners and
physicians
- Services that enable better coordination of how home-based care
is delivered and logistics management to support the patient’s
broad care team
- Lively Mobile Plus, their personal emergency response system
(PERS) device which can detect falls and enable patients to contact
an Urgent Response Agent
“More people than ever before are comfortable with the idea of
receiving care in their homes, but we know that bringing care
across that threshold isn’t as easy as it sounds,” says Deborah Di
Sanzo, president of Best Buy Health. “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.”
“At Mass General Brigham, we are building the integrated
healthcare system of the future across the entire continuum of
patient care needs,” said Heather O’Sullivan, president of
Healthcare at Home at Mass General Brigham. “As a recognized leader
of Home Hospital services, we understand that consumers are
increasingly choosing the comfort of care at home as an alternative
to traditional, facility-based delivery settings. By enabling our
world-class provider services with technology that matters, we are
elevating system capabilities and, most importantly, improving
clinical outcomes for the communities we serve today while
preparing for the future delivery of care more broadly.”
Supporting the future of care at home
While workforce shortages plague the healthcare industry and
threaten the ability of healthcare systems, the Home Hospital
experience has shown an increase in employee satisfaction through
innovative hybrid practice options and a reduction of clinician
burnout. As part of this relationship, Best Buy Health and Mass
General Brigham will engage with and make significant investments
in the community to enable the next generation of the Healthcare at
Home workforce. To do this they will create 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.
About Best Buy Co., Inc.
Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) is the world’s largest specialty consumer
electronics retailer. Our purpose is to enrich lives through
technology, which we do by providing our customers a unique mix of
advice, products and services in our stores, online, and in homes.
Our expert associates advise customers on our curated assortment of
the latest, name-brand technology, while our highly trained
services teams help with designs, consultations, delivery,
installation, tech support and repair. Best Buy operates nearly
1,000 retail stores in North America and has more than 90,000
employees. We are a leader in environmental, social and governance
issues, including through the Best Buy Foundation’s nationwide Best
Buy Teen Tech Center® network and the significant role we play in
the circular economy through repair, trade-in and recycling
programs. Our Best Buy Health business enables care at home for
everyone by focusing on three key areas: wellness at home, aging at
home and care at home. Building its strategy on the strengths of
Best Buy, Best Buy Health utilizes its Lively® brand to offer a
suite of devices, health and safety services and Caring Centers to
help adults age independently. Best Buy Health also connects
patients and providers through its Current Health platform to
improve the care at home experience and ensure better outcomes. For
more information on Best Buy Health, visit
Healthcare.BestBuy.com.
About Mass General Brigham
Mass General Brigham is an integrated academic health care
system, uniting great minds to solve the hardest problems in
medicine for our communities and the world. Mass General Brigham
connects a full continuum of care across a system of academic
medical centers, community and specialty hospitals, a health
insurance plan, physician networks, community health centers, home
care, and long-term care services. Mass General Brigham is a
nonprofit organization committed to patient care, research,
teaching, and service to the community. In addition, Mass General
Brigham is one of the nation’s leading biomedical research
organizations with several Harvard Medical School teaching
hospitals. For more information, please visit
www.massgeneralbrigham.org.
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