News and Market Developments
Home Health Care News: Increased Home-Based Care Could Save Florida $745 Million Annually (2/3) - Providing care in the home instead of in a nursing home could save the state of Florida $745 million in fiscal savings annually. That’s according to a recent report released from Florida TaxWatch, an independent research institute. The report is an analysis of the possible safety benefits, fiscal savings and quality outcomes from expanding home- and community-based services in Florida.
PRNewswire: Hackensack Meridian Health Launches Hospital At Home at JFK University Medical Center, One of First Programs in NJ (2/3) - Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey's largest and most integrated health network, is pleased to announce the launch of Hospital At Home at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, a program that delivers high-quality acute care in the home of a Medicare patient and may ultimately be scalable to the larger patient population. "Healthcare continues to expand beyond the walls of the hospital and this new program will help us advance strategies to improve outcomes and patient satisfaction while making care more affordable,'' said Robert C. Garrett, FACHE, chief executive officer of Hackensack Meridian Health.
mHealth Intelligence: RPM 101: What Is Remote Patient Monitoring, Its Benefits, and Uses? (2/2) - Increasingly, healthcare organizations are setting up hospital-at-home programs that enable treatment for higher acuity conditions at home. These programs can provide a wide array of services, including diagnostics like echocardiograms and X-rays, treatments such as oxygen therapy and intravenous fluids, as well as pharmacy and skilled nursing services. Though hospital-at-home programs involve in-person care, they are supported by continual monitoring of biometrics by a care team and telehealth visits.
PRNewswire: UCI Health Partners with Biofourmis for Hospital at Home and Post-Acute Remote Patient Monitoring (2/2) - Biofourmis, a Boston-based global leader in digital therapeutics and virtual care that powers personalized predictive care, announced today a multi-year agreement with UCI Health to support continuous artificial intelligence (AI)-powered remote monitoring of acute and post-acute care patients in their homes through Biofourmis tools. UCI Health comprises the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine and is Orange County's only academic health system. The medical center is a 459-bed acute care hospital providing tertiary and quaternary care, ambulatory and specialty medical, behavioral health and rehabilitation services. It is the primary teaching location for UCI School of Medicine. U.S. News & World Report has recognized UCI Medical Center as one of America's Best Hospitals for 21 consecutive years and ranked it among the top 15 hospitals in California.
Direct Relief: How the Pandemic Has Changed Health Care – For Good (2/1) - For community health centers and free clinics around the country, home visits and other at-home care delivery methods have allowed them to meet patients where they are and treat patients more effectively.
HealthLeaders: How Digital Health Lays the Groundwork for Future Healthcare Strategy (2/1) - Health systems are using new digital health tools and platforms to improve care delivery, deliver better data to the care team no matter where they are located, expanding the platform to cover patients no matter where they need that care, and offering services that interact with the communities they serve. The hospital may sit at the geographical center of that platform, but it will no longer be where everyone goes to get care.
Beckers Hospital Review: 5 health systems that recently launched 'hospital-at-home' programs (1/31) - Five hospitals and health systems around the country have recently launched new hospital at home care programs. One example is that Peoria, Ill.-based OSF Healthcare partnered with Medically Home Group to create an acute care hospital-at-home program.
Fierce Healthcare: MedArrive teams up with tele-ophthalmology startup Spect to provide eye screening in patients' homes (1/31) MedArrive, a home health and virtual care company, is teaming up with an eye disease screening startup to provide more complex care in patients' homes. MedArrive providers will use Spect's artificial intelligence-enabled mobile telemedicine platform to perform critical eye screenings for diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration.
STAT News: The hospital of the future won’t be what you expect (1/31) - Due to the health risks and economic burdens involved, doctors and insurance companies prefer to keep patients out of hospitals for conditions that are not life-threatening. The Hospital at Home model provides the quality of care that patients could expect in a hospital, but with the comfort, convenience, and improved health outcomes associated with being treated at home. Once health care providers, payers, and regulators catch up with the technology that already exists, the hospitals of tomorrow will expand to the home as they become smaller, more affordable, and better versions of what we have today.
HealthTech: The Future of Smart Hospital Strategy Brings Care to the Home (1/27) - Hospitals are becoming more digital and interconnected through smart hospital strategies. Creating a smart hospital environment involves modernizing the patient and clinician journeys by applying technologies such as automation, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices, wearables, tablets, displays and smartphones to transform healthcare and improve productivity. However, these technologies also need to be secured to protect patient data and hospital infrastructure. Dr. Hon Pak, chief medical officer for Samsung, explains what’s changing in smart hospital strategies, what infrastructure is needed for smart hospital technology, and how healthcare organizations can best implement technology to improve efficiencies and patient care.
Home Health Care News: HCA in ‘Early Stages’ of Home Health Integration, Having Difficulty with Post-Acute Care Capacity (1/27) HCA Healthcare executives provided a brief update on the company’s home health and hospice operations, stating that the company was in the early state of integration while also experiencing difficulties in staffing due to the Omicron variant.
MedPage Today: Bringing the Hospital Home (1/25) - Hospital at Home care improves patient accessibility and allows medical care to be more person-centered, timely, and efficient. Providing care in the home also improves patient outcomes by reducing the risk of hospital-acquired infections and other complications of inpatient care. By strengthening this avenue of care, we can help patients and physicians while improving the American healthcare system.
NPR: Americans with non-life-threatening issues can get hospital-level treatment at home (1/24) - NPR hosted a conversation with Dr. David Levine from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Michael Maniaci from Mayo Clinic, Dr. Amal Agarwal from Humana, and Dolores Wiese, a patient who has personally benefited from home-based care through DispatchHealth, on the potential and benefits of acute hospital care at home.
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