HealthIT Answers August 7, 2023
By Charbel Rizkallah, Sr. Director, Healthcare Offering Management, Honeywell Sensing and Safety Technologies
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More hospitals and healthcare centers worldwide are embracing a “hospital to home” model of care focused on decentralizing healthcare – specifically, getting patients out of the hospital and enabling them to receive care outside of hospital walls, often in their own home. By treating patients with chronic illness and others remotely, hospitals can free up critical beds for emergency patients who truly need them.
From a technology perspective, the hospital to home migration is powered by advanced sensors that monitor and transmit a patient’s vital signs and other critical healthcare data to cloud-based platforms. Clinicians can use a mobile device or tablet to securely access this...