Becker's Healthcare July 19, 2023
To partner or to build? That is the question health systems are asking themselves with many digital health technologies, “hospital at home” being the latest example.
For instance, Cleveland Clinic, Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic partner with company Medically Home, while DispatchHealth is another at-home care vendor, the American Medical Association reported July 18. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health and Richmond, Va.-VCU Health opted to build their own hospital-at-home programs. VCU did so by connecting patients to more than 40 community-based resources.
“We don’t need to send a nurse practitioner if they need somebody to do some coaching and education for them to be successful, or if they need socialization and they live by themselves,” Ryan Raisig,...
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