︎ Health at Home
Solutions for the Future of Healthcare at HomeThe accelerating integration of advanced technologies into healthcare represents a pivotal shift in the delivery and management of medical services, and especially opens up radical changes to the way that patients interact with care. Health At Home provides a framework of solutions now, near, and far in the future for how patient’s healthcare could be managed within and delivered almost exclusively to the home, limiting the unnecessary social aspects of healthcare, and almost entirely eliminating inefficient physical hospital visits.
By Paresh Hemnani ︎, Siya Shah ︎, Elijah Underhill Miller ︎, Christa Keyrouz ︎
Why
As emerging technology such as physical automation, a trajectory toward a high percentage of outpatient care, and emerging AI technology, the question of where healthcare and especially primary care will be administered and in what ways is at the forefront. Typical hospital or other facility visits can be emotionally taxing, time consuming, and wasteful both financially and environmentally, and Health At Home is posing an alternate solution to the future of healthcare: in the home.
How
Health At Home engages the capabilities that current and imminent technological breakthroughs in healthcare present, how the digital can meet the physical, and sees how these advancements can take healthcare and primary care to the home.
What
In the now stage, Health At Home focuses on increasing compatibility between existing technology. In the near and far stages, even more healthcare related technologies are theorized, with both utopian and dystopian outcomes of advanced digital and physical aggregates theorized.
So What
Patients would be able to transcend physical hospital visits and access preventive and personalized health care from the comfort of their home.
Design To Outcomes
Health At Home’s approach to integrating technology into healthcare spans from immediate applications to long-term possibilities. The Smart Health Living Space is an evolved residential environment equipped with smart technology, ergonomic design, and medical facilities, as well as the future of being served by passsionate healthcare robots. It’s structured to adapt to the specific health needs and mobility levels of its occupants, integrating health into the daily living space seamlessly.
Now:
In the now stage, Health At Home employs accesible design and recognises current technologies such as Apple Vision Pro, Apple Watch, and telehealth platforms, with a focus on increasing compatibility between and a streamlined experience between existing technology so that health can be better accessed in the home without needing to extend to providers or facilities.
Near:
Improving preventative care through smart home health devices and sensors. This will be supported by IoT advancements for better interoperability and data sharing, adhering to new government technology standards.
Far:
An advanced AI-controlled healthcare robot that goes directly inside the home administering care to the patient, as well as more significant changes to residential layouts to allow for seamless robot maneuvering as well as sensor coverage for optimal monitoring and data collection.
Now: Accessible Design and use
of existing technology for health
emergencies
Near: interior modifications and
cloud-enabled intergrated sensors
and devices to monitor health in the
home.
Far: A health robot that operates
autonomously within a home environment is likely to bring about several significant changes to spatial
interior architecture: wider and clearer pathways, reducing clutter,rethinking furniture placement,
and potentially wideningdoorways to accommodate robot
dimensions and mobility; non-slip
and durable flooring; integrated
charging stations; a sensor-friendly
environment.
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