mHealth Intelligence December 27, 2023
Anuja Vaidya

The study reveals that the hospital-at-home model can be scaled successfully, but it is unclear if its care quality remains on par with traditional inpatient care.

Research from Kaiser Permanente reveals that its hospital-at-home program was scaled successfully, creating hospital capacity; however, the program’s care quality as it was being scaled could not be determined.

Published in The American Journal of Managed Care, the study aimed to assess the feasibility of scaling a hospital-at-home program within an integrated healthcare delivery system.

Though the hospital-at-home model has been around for decades, it received a significant boost when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver in November 2020. The waiver allows hospitals to...

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