Providers, tech companies to advocate for expanding clinical care at home

MedCity News March 5, 2021
Anuja Vaidya

A group of healthcare stakeholders — Amazon Care, Intermountain Healthcare and Ascension, to name a few — has created an alliance to advocate for home-based care services through policy changes.

Demand for home care accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic, and though regulations were passed to support this shift, they remain temporary.

A group of providers, technology firms and home healthcare companies have joined forces to establish an alliance that aims to make those changes permanent. Launched on Wednesday, the founding members include Amazon Care, Signify Health, DispatchHealth, Intermountain Healthcare and Ascension.

The alliance, called Moving Health Home, will focus on changing the way policymakers think about the home as a site of clinical service. The group’s policy priorities include:

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