Health Technologies Driving Hospital-at-Home Programs
mHealth Intelligence September 7, 2023
The hospital-at-home model is gaining momentum, supported by various types of health technologies, including remote patient monitoring, telehealth, and analytics.
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 options to extend care access, including hospital-at-home programs.
One of the early adopters of the care model, Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine, tested it in the 1990s and early 2000s, publishing a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2005. The study showed that the hospital-at-home care model not only met quality standards at similar rates to acute inpatient care but was also associated with a shorter...