How health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital at home

HEALTHCAREITNEWS, 23/03/2021

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How health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital at home

"As CMS signals longer-term changes in acute RPM reimbursement and Amazon teams with major providers to push for new policies, clinical and IT leaders should start planning ahead, says one expert. "Everyone has to be thinking about this."
Telehealth proved its mettle this past year. Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home.
But some big questions still need ironing out, as regulations and reimbursement mechanisms are in major flux. But the fact that these ideas are even being discussed points to how far the conversation has shifted since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
About the same time as Amazon made waves this past week with its 50-state expansion of Amazon Care, we reported that the company has teamed with blue chip health systems such as Ascension and Intermountain for the new Moving Health Home collaborative, whose goal is to "change the way policymakers think about the home as a site of clinical service."..." Lire la suite