HealthLeaders Media June 26, 2020
Mayo Clinic and Intermountain Healthcare announce programs to care for patients in their own homes.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Hospital-at-home services combine home visits with virtual care and remote monitoring.
– Both initiatives involve partnerships with outside entities to provide the technology platform.
– These programs offer a way for health systems to enhance consumer-centered and value-based care.
Two large health systems are taking the “stay-at-home” edict to a new level. Rather than hospitalize certain patients, the organizations have launched services that enable them to receive hospital care at home.
Yesterday, Mayo Clinic announced advanced care at home, “a new care model that will deliver innovative, comprehensive, and complex care to patients” at home. Earlier this month, Intermountain Healthcare launched a...