MedCity News March 25, 2020
Arpan Parekh

Researchers have established a new measure, “Healthy Days at Home,” that attempts to quantify how well healthcare organizations keep people healthy and out of facility-based healthcare settings.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in conjunction with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) established a new measure, “Healthy Days at Home,” that attempts to quantify how well healthcare organizations keep people healthy and out of facility-based healthcare settings.

The full study, published in Healthcare presents a novel population-based outcome measure that quantifies how much time Medicare beneficiaries spent away from in-patient stays and other acute-care services that could help providers tailor quality-improvement initiatives to address the needs of specific patient populations.

Current approaches...

Today's Sponsors

LEK
ZeOmega

Today's Sponsor

LEK

 
Topics: Healthcare System, Home, Insurance, Market Research, Patient / Consumer, Payment Models, Provider, Trends, Value Based
The Advantages, Challenges, and Costs of Healthcare at Home Services
HIMSS24 Why Mass General Brigham Wants to Move 10% of Patient Care to the Home
What hospital-at-home leaders can learn from hospitalists
Can Hospital At Home Finally Hit Its Tipping Point? Lessons From The Hospitalist Field
How RPM can scale and sustain CMS' hospital at home program

Share This Article