Becker's Healthcare July 15, 2024
The No. 1 challenge for providing hospital-at-home care is logistical — rather than medical — in nature, a health system leader told Becker’s.
For instance, UChicago Medicine has had trouble recruiting nurses willing to go into patients’ homes in the urban neighborhoods it serves over safety concerns, according to chief medical information officer Cheng-Kai Kao, MD. And unlike some other states, Illinois doesn’t allow paramedics to provide acute hospital care at home.
Some hospital-at-home vendors also aren’t integrated with Epic, which UChicago Medicine uses for its EHR, Dr. Kao said.
“The biggest...
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