A new software integrates biophilic design, e-commerce, and digital health to transform homes into therapeutic spaces, improving chronic disease management, patient engagement, and healthcare outcomes at scale.
Salt Lake City, Utah, February 12, 2025
An article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health unveils a software application that integrates design, e-commerce and digital health technology, transforming home environments in to centers for healing and wellness. The creators of the application say that it is meant to turn patients' homes into therapeutic spaces, offering innovative support for managing chronic diseases. Developed through a Salt Lake City Utah-based collaboration between Dayhouse Studio and OMNI Self-care, the creators of this software say over 100 million U.S. adults living with chronic conditions stand to benefit through its application.
Titled “Home Environment as a Therapeutic Target for Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Diseases,” the study presents a patent-pending software system that combines biophilic design, e-commerce, and digital health tools to create personalized treatment plans for various chronic illnesses. These include chronic pain, migraines, depression, anxiety, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
Unlike traditional pharmaceutical treatments, this approach addresses multiple factors contributing to chronic conditions, integrating patient education and self-care into home environments.
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Dorothy Huntsman, the study's lead author and founder of Dayhouse Studio, emphasizes, “A biophilic home environment should be considered a fundamental pillar of health—just as vital as nutrition, exercise, sleep, and social support.”
Tye Farrow, a renowned architect and author of Constructing Health, sees this work as a catalyst for architects and designers to promote public health on a larger scale. Meanwhile, co-author Dr. Grzegorz Bulaj of OMNI Self-care highlights the overlooked role of home environments in healthcare, stating, “E-commerce and digital health tools can seamlessly integrate living spaces, patient education, self-care, and medical treatments.”
Co-author on the article, Dr. Grzegorz Bulaj of OMNI Self-care commented, "An impact of the home environment on the patient's health has been overlooked and underutilized in medicine and healthcare. Our article explores how e-commerce, as a digital health technology, can seamlessly integrate a patient's living space, health education, self-care and pharmaceutical treatments to support individuals suffering from neurological and mental disorders."
The authors see this research as a paradigm shift in chronic disease management, with the innovation of a home-centered approach that extends healthcare beyond traditional medical interventions.
Dayhouse has filed a patent on its proprietary software ecosystem that is designed to deliver therapeutic home environment programs for chronic pain, migraine, depression, anxiety and cancer. Dayhouse is currently fundraising to develop and launch the software. Derek Mattsson, CEO of Utah360°, is serving as an advisor to Dayhouse.
For more information about development of digital Health-at-Home programs and other projects, contact Dorothy Huntsman (dorothy @ dayhousestudio.com) and Dr. Grzegorz Bulaj (gbulaj @ omniself.care).