Home Health AI
Advisory Council
Purpose
The shift to home-centered care isn’t just inevitable – it’s economically necessary. iTonic is positioned at the intersection of policy, technology, and patient engagement.
As care increasingly shifts beyond hospitals and clinics, the home has become the most important – and least standardized – setting in modern medicine. Once a patient leaves a clinical environment, continuity of care, engagement, adherence, and long-term outcomes are largely unmanaged by existing institutional frameworks.
This Council is being formed to address that gap.
Mission
The mission of the iTonic National Home Health AI Advisory Council is to:
- Establish best-practice standards for the responsible use of AI in home health settings
- Define ethical and clinical principles for post-discharge continuity of care
- Guide the integration of AI into daily patient engagement, monitoring, and support
- Ensure AI systems used in the home are clinically sound, transparent, and patient-centered
- Provide physician leadership in an emerging field that has not yet been formally defined
This Council does not replace clinical judgment. Rather, it helps shape how intelligent systems can responsibly support patients, families, caregivers, and providers once care moves into the home.
Scope of Focus
AI Supported
continuity of care after hospital or clinic discharge
Patient Engagement
and adherence in non-acute settings
Ethical Deployent
of AI in daily, longitudinal patient interactions
Integration
of AI with caregivers, families, and care teams
Guardrails
for safety, trust, and clinical responsibility in the home
Leadership
The Council is led by Dr. Aaron Spitz, MD, Founding Chair. Dr. Spitz’s clinical leadership and public credibility anchor the Council as a physician-first initiative. Under his leadership, the Council will convene top clinicians and scientists from diverse specialties who share a commitment to shaping the future of responsible home health AI.
Membership
Membership is by invitation only and limited to experts in Home Health AI and home-based care, including:
- Licensed clinicians actively practicing in home-based or post-acute care
- Home health and home-based care delivery leaders
- Transitions-of-care experts
- Rehab and support-service leaders
- Behavioral science and patient engagement leaders
- Caregiver and patient representatives
- Clinical informatics, AI safety/risk, and ethics experts
- Privacy and security experts
