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Julia Crist, Chief Operating Officer of Inbound Health, explains how hospital-at-home programs can improve outcomes and lower costs while making care more accessible.
- Home health care is expected to grow significantly in the coming years as the population ages and more care shifts to the home setting. Programs like hospital-at-home can help health systems manage capacity constraints.
- Home health is a generic term for care delivered in the home. It can be segmented into physician-driven care, such as hospital-at-home and SNF avoidance, and personal care assistance, anything that has to do with serving a patient’s activities of daily living.
- Home health care has been shown to improve outcomes, reduce readmissions, improve patient satisfaction, and lower costs compared to facility-based care for certain patient populations like seniors.
- Health equity considerations are important in designing home health programs to ensure they are accessible to diverse populations. Things like providing devices and addressing social determinants of health can help.
- Reimbursement models have been a key barrier to wider adoption of home health programs like hospital-at-home.
- Technology innovations in remote monitoring, telehealth, and supply chain/logistics will enable home health programs to scale and become more standardized across health systems.
Julia Crist, Chief Operating Officer of Inbound Health, explains how hospital-at-home programs can improve outcomes and lower costs while making care more accessible.
- Home health care is expected to grow significantly in the coming years as the population ages and more care shifts to the home setting. Programs like hospital-at-home can help health systems manage capacity constraints.
- Home health is a generic term for care delivered in the home. It can be segmented into physician-driven care, such as hospital-at-home and SNF avoidance, and personal care assistance, anything that has to do with serving a patient’s activities of daily living.
- Home health care has been shown to improve outcomes, reduce readmissions, improve patient satisfaction, and lower costs compared to facility-based care for certain patient populations like seniors.
- Health equity considerations are important in designing home health programs to ensure they are accessible to diverse populations. Things like providing devices and addressing social determinants of health can help.
- Reimbursement models have been a key barrier to wider adoption of home health programs like hospital-at-home.
- Technology innovations in remote monitoring, telehealth, and supply chain/logistics will enable home health programs to scale and become more standardized across health systems.
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