UC Davis Health, Houston Methodist Ink RPM Partnerships

UC Davis Health and Houston Methodist have engaged in new collaborations with BioIntelliSense to enhance remote care delivery, develop hospital-to-home monitoring services, and deploy clinical intelligence platforms.

BioIntelliSense is a company that focuses on developing strategies for remote patient monitoring using its Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform. It offers medical grade wearable devices, called BioSticker and BioButton, to enable continuous monitoring of more than 20 vital signs and physiologic biometrics for up to 30 days on a single use device.

UC Davis Health, which includes UC Davis Medical Center, UC Davis School of Medicine, and UC Davis Medical Group, had nearly 30,000 admissions and 808,000 clinic visits in the year ended June 30, 2020.

Per its partnership with UC Davis Health, BioIntelliSense aims to advance remote patient monitoring (RPM) services across various settings to improve the care provided to UC Davis patients and expand the outreach and use of BioIntelliSense health monitoring devices.

“We formed CoLab at UC Davis Health to support open innovation with industry, pharma and payers by co-designing, co-validating and co-transforming breakthrough technologies in digital health, devices and AI,” said Ashish Atreja, CIO and chief digital health officer at UC Davis Health, in the press release. “We are thrilled about [the] partnership with BioIntelliSense that supports our strategic goal of delivering high acuity care at home that is grounded in equity so no patient gets left behind."

Houston Methodist is an academic medical center with over 27,000 employees and more than 132,000 admissions in 2021.

Per the collaboration, the medical center intends to use BioIntelliSense services and BioSticker and BioButton wearable devices to provide enhanced patient care. 

“This new strategic collaboration with BioIntelliSense exemplifies Houston Methodist’s continued commitment to advancing world-class expertise and greater efficiency to deliver the highest quality and most impactful care,” said Sarah Pletcher, MD, vice president and executive medical director, strategic innovation, at Houston Methodist, in the press release.

The collaboration also aims to address the costs and other negative effects of the growing healthcare workforce shortage.

Partnerships that intend to use multiple devices and services to expand virtual care delivery are on the rise.

For example, a collaboration from this past April between UBMD Pediatrics and Cecelia Health aims to improve pediatric type 1 diabetes care using remote patient monitoring. Specifically, Cecelia Health is providing UBMD Pediatrics patients access to its remote clinical support and device training services.

Also last month, Norwell Health partnered with Teladoc Health to deliver connected virtual care, enhance the quality of care, and improve clinical teamwork. Through the partnership, Northwell patients gained access to a virtual care platform developed by Teladoc.

Earlier this week, Rochester Regional Health worked with TytoCare to implement remote physical examinations. Per the collaboration, TytoCare will offer its artificial intelligence solutions to Rochester Regional Health.