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FDA launches initiative to advance home healthcare models, devices

April 24, 2024 - The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a new initiative to support the development of home healthcare models and home-based solutions that bolster health equity. Called the Home as a Health Care Hub, the initiative’s primary goal is to “reimagine the home environment as an integral part of the health care...

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Healthcare stakeholders call for hospital-at-home waiver permanency

by Anuja Vaidya

More than 65 healthcare organizations have signed a letter urging Congress to extend the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program for at least five years beyond 2024. The letter sent to...

Why UC Davis is turning to mHealth tech for post-angioplasty care

by Anuja Vaidya

Post-discharge is a critical period for the overall success of any given procedure. If patients do not follow discharge instructions or clinical changes occur without the care team’s knowledge, the patient could suffer adverse...

Leveraging RPM to Enable At-Home Care for High-Risk Cancer Patients

by Anuja Vaidya

The rapid advancement in digital health technologies post-March 2020 has expanded the boundaries of at-home healthcare. As COVID-19 forced hospitals to deliver more care outside traditional brick-and-mortar facilities, researchers began to...

New Research Links Hospital-at-Home Care to Positive Patient Outcomes

by Anuja Vaidya

New research from Mass General Brigham affirms the clinical benefits of hospital-at-home programs, showing that they are associated with low mortality, skilled nursing facility use, and readmission...

Kaiser Permanente Study Shows Scalability of Hospital-at-Home Model

by Anuja Vaidya

Research from Kaiser Permanente reveals that its hospital-at-home program was scaled successfully, creating hospital capacity; however, the program’s care quality as it was being scaled could not...

Few Deaths, Complications Among CMS Hospital-at-Home Waiver Patients

by Anuja Vaidya

Patients receiving at-home hospital care under the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver experienced a low mortality rate and minimal complications resulting in admission to brick-and-mortar hospitals,...

How Best Buy Will Help Mass General Brigham Scale At-Home Healthcare

by Anuja Vaidya

With the hospital-at-home model gaining steam nationwide, health systems are seeking technology partnerships that can help them sustain and scale their program. The latest in a string of provider-vendor partnerships focused on...

Most Clinicians Want Investment in Virtual, At-Home Care to Grow

by Anuja Vaidya

A majority of clinicians (81 percent) would like to see their organization’s investment in care-at-home initiatives increase over the next year or two, a new survey shows. Commissioned by Best...

New Bill Aims to Enable Virtual Cardiac Rehab for Medicare Patients

by Anuja Vaidya

Three United States senators have introduced new legislation that would allow Medicare beneficiaries to receive cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services at home through telehealth. During the...

New Workbook Supports Home-Based Cardiovascular Care

by Anuja Vaidya

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has released a workbook that provides guidance and resources to support cardiovascular care in the home. The ACC Home-Based Care Workbook covers the pros and...

Mass General Brigham to Expand Hospital-at-Home Services

by Anuja Vaidya

Mass General Brigham is expanding its hospital-at-home program to three community hospital sites in Massachusetts: Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and Salem...

Health Technologies Driving Hospital-at-Home Programs

by Anuja Vaidya

Healthcare is moving increasingly outside the walls of hospitals, spurred by the popularity of outpatient and virtual care modalities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare provider organizations stood up or scaled various care delivery...

NIH Grant Funds Efforts to Advance At-Home Cancer Care

by Mark Melchionna

The Managing Symptoms and Psychological Distress During Oral Anti-Cancer Treatment grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is assisting Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and other...

Why the Hospital-at-Home Model is a High Priority for ChristianaCare

by Anuja Vaidya

Though hospital-at-home programs are becoming more widespread, implementing and sustaining one comes with numerous challenges. The challenges of deploying these programs can range from developing new clinical workflows to social...

Virtual BP Monitoring Lowers Readmissions Among Postpartum Patients

by Mark Melchionna

Among those with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), a blood pressure (BP) home monitoring resource combined with the use of medication for BP titration helped with keeping patients out of the...

Home Monitoring Program Assisted COVID-19 Patients

by Mark Melchionna

A study published in the American Journal of Accountable Care indicated that COVID-19 patients at risk of decompensation benefited highly from a home monitoring program, allowing most to limit...

About Amedisys, a Home Health Provider That Sparked a Bidding War

by Anuja Vaidya

Mergers and acquisitions activity in the home healthcare space is heating up, with numerous organizations vying for a piece of the increasingly profitable pie. Earlier this year, CVS finalized its acquisition of Signify Health, a home...

Continuous Care Program Aims to Streamline Data Collection

by Mark Melchionna

Piedmont Healthcare, Telemetrix, and Remote Care Partners (RCP) created a continuous care program that aims to assist providers in navigating patient data collection through the combination of remote...

Partnership Adds In-Home Care Model to Enhance Patient Access

by Mark Melchionna

A partnership between Included Health and DispatchHealth led to the creation of a virtual-to-in-home care model to support patients with injuries, illnesses, and diseases while allowing them to remain...

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