HealthsystemCIO.com November 29, 2022
Sometimes things really do come full circle, especially in healthcare. There’s perhaps no better example than hospital-at-home, which, because of the technology component, has become a hot topic.
Traveling to the patient’s home to provide care, however, is certainly not a new trend. “We traditionally provided care at home; that’s what visits looked like,” said Stephanie Lahr, MD, former CIO and CMIO at Monument Health. “We moved into hospitals as a way to consolidate and better leverage resources.”
Technology, she believes, can play a critical role in putting it all together. “There are a lot of caveats around which patients, which homes, and what we need to do to help them be successful,” noted Lahr, a hospitalist by training. “But...
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