Home Health Care News May 20, 2020
“The future of health care is in the home.”
Home-based care operators have been saying and hearing this for years, but the question remains: What does that future look like? And how does the coronavirus possibly reshape that image?
Recently, home-based care models have touted their ability to better deal with the COVID-19 crisis, resulting in more third-party innovators jockeying for attention. As more patients shift toward aging in place, those third-party innovators — the technology companies — want to be there with them.
Without a doubt, the future of the home will be shaped by internet-of-things (IoT) technology, remote patient monitoring, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence (AI).
Within each category is an arms race between technology companies...