Home Health Care News September 7, 2021
Home health operators have been advocating for more care to be delivered in the home for years. Those calls have now come to fruition.
In actuality, other health care stakeholders have sought to shift more care into the home as well, but operational hurdles and unavoidable gaps in care made that mission seemingly impossible. But now the home health industry is ready, Heather Cox, the chief digital health and analytics officer at Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), argued in a recent Boston Globe op-ed.
And what’s getting them there, she believes, is the increased abilities Humana and other providers have when it comes to data, analytics and overall at-home offerings.