European Innovative Health Initiative – Hospital@Home – Launches to Transform Hospital Care Delivery

Global Heart Hub is a Hospital@Home Consortium Partner

Leading academic hospitals, industry innovators, patient organisations, and technology partners across Europe are coming together to officially launch Hospital@Home (H@H), a major new initiative designed to deliver hospital-level care directly in patients’ homes. The consortium will meet for its formal kick-off event on 8–9 January in Rotterdam, marking the start of a five-year program that aims to redefine how healthcare systems deliver safe, efficient, and patient-centred care.

Hospital@Home addresses a growing need across Europe: rising hospital demand, increasing pressure on healthcare staff, and the need for more resilient, sustainable care models. By combining wearable monitoring, AI-driven predictive analytics, remote clinical supervision, and patient-reported outcomes, H@H will enable patients with chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease, minor stroke/TIA, migraine, and cluster headache, to receive high-quality treatment in the comfort of their homes.

Public coordinator Linetta Koppert (Erasmus MC): “From a clinical perspective, Hospital@Home represents a shift towards appropriate, value-based care supported by digital technologies. It empowers healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality care while reducing unnecessary hospital burden and improving patient experience.”

A flagship European collaboration

The H@H consortium includes five leading university hospitals, MedTech and pharmaceutical partners, SMEs specialising in digital health and AI, patient advocacy groups, health economists, and implementation experts. Together, they bring the multidisciplinary expertise needed to deploy, evaluate, and scale Hospital@Home pathways across Europe.

The project builds on existing regional and European initiatives, including world-class digital infrastructures, using wearable devices, mobile monitoring systems, secure patient communication tools, and interoperable data platforms.

Key actions planned over the next five years: Develop and validate digital care pathways for homecare
Integrate AI-based triage tools and real-time remote monitoring
Capture patient experience through continuous PROM/PREM data
Test the model with patients in real-world clinical settings across Europe
Provide guidelines and scalable blueprints for health systems seeking to adopt home-based models
Assess the economic, social, and environmental benefits of shifting care from hospital to home

The initiative is directly aligned with the EU’s ambitions to strengthen integrated, people-centred healthcare and boost innovation in digital and decentralised care.

Kick-off in Rotterdam: Setting the foundation

During the two-day meeting in Rotterdam, partners will align on:

Care pathways for the implementation phase
Technical architecture for AI, data integration, and remote monitoring
Ethical, regulatory, and data-governance considerations
Patient engagement plans
Evaluation frameworks
The Kick-off event will also mark the start of the design of the H@H Knowledge Hub, a platform to support ongoing collaboration, the exchange of best practices, and the sharing of evidence among European healthcare stakeholders.

A vision for Europe’s healthcare future

By shifting appropriate hospital care into the home, H@H aims to:
Reduce avoidable hospitalisations
Improve patient comfort and satisfaction
Lower healthcare system costs
Increase sustainability of care infrastructure
Support clinicians with better tools and more efficient workflow

Industry leader Daniel Schobben (Salvia Bioelectronics): “Hospital@Home is more than a project – it sparks a new digital era to provide even better care while at the same time improving efficiency for both patients and hospitals.”

About Hospital@Home

Hospital@Home is a European initiative funded under Horizon Europe’s IHI Call 9, uniting academic hospitals, technology developers, MedTech and pharmaceutical partners, and patient organisations. Its mission is to develop, implement, and validate digital and clinical innovations that enable hospital-level care at home, improving outcomes for patients while strengthening the sustainability of healthcare systems across Europe.

www.hospitalathome-ihi.eu