Advancing Rural Health: ECRI Collaborates with Massachusetts General Hospital on ARPA-H Initiative Developing Mobile Medical Units
Published on November 13, 2025
What if we could deliver advanced hospital-level care to every rural county in America? That’s the question that PARADIGM set out to answer. The Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed and InteGrated Medical Care (PARADIGM) program aims to improve rural health by creating a scalable vehicle platform that can provide advanced medical services outside of a hospital setting. This new mobile care platform will allow healthcare providers to meet rural patients where they are, leveraging technological advancements in satellite communication and medical device miniaturization. PARADIGM is led by Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Massachusetts General Hospital numbers among the PARADIGM awardees contributing to the mobile care platform, adding interoperable medical devices and ensuring security and scalability across care settings. ECRI, a global healthcare safety nonprofit, is working with Massachusetts General