Innovative approaches to home care will only be successful if organizations can ensure the safety of the professionals who enter patient homes. To do that, they’ll need to embrace new technologies that support in-home caregivers in real-time, and implement new protocols that ensure they are provided with the security and comfort they deserve.
Collaboration across key stakeholders, including home health agencies, providers, patients, health plans, and post-acute care solution providers will be critical to fully enabling the home as a preferred place of care.
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Baylor Medicine teamed up with Luna to launch a program expanding access to in-home physical therapy for patients in the Houston area. Luna, a provider of in-home physical therapy, has similar partnerships with more than two dozen health systems. These partnerships help health systems expand access to care and increase their geographic coverage across their markets, said Palak Shah, Luna’s co-founder.
The at-home care field holds significant market potential. As the subsector continues to grow, some leaders of home healthcare startups are challenging misconceptions that some other industry stakeholders may still have, including the misbelief that at-home care is only for senior citizens and that this care model lacks scalability.
UC Davis Health announced the first startup to come out of its health tech innovation incubator. The company, named WellCent, is a platform that allows patients and caregivers to onboard medical devices into their home and access digital health resources.
Sprinter Health is integrating its at-home clinical and diagnostic services into Firefly Health’s virtual primary care model. Firefly’s members will be able to receive common medical services from Sprinter clinicians in their homes — such as vital checks, blood draws, electrocardiograms, diabetic eye exams and diabetic foot screenings.
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Empire members will gain access to three Mount Sinai Health System care models, which enable patients to opt for in-home care when medically appropriate. The agreement also includes a plan to improve bi-directional data exchange between the provider and payer.
Consumers want the healthcare industry to meet them where they are, and this shift in patient mindset has expanded the definition of home healthcare and who benefits from it, according to a panel at MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference.
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.
Health Cloud's new Social Determinants for Care feature aggregates and displays these factors and potential barriers to care as part of a patient's profile helping caregivers to develop better informed and personalized care plans.
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New York City-based Swift Shift seeks to help home health agencies with nursing and caregiver recruitment. Founder and CEO Assaf Shalvi discussed the startup's new solution, Boost, in a recent phone interview.
Healthsense places wireless sensors around living spaces to monitor patients at home and in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, then applies algorithms to detect signs of potential health issues.
To ensure that workers can take advantage of the new benefits, stronger oversight of the industry is needed, said Sarah Leberstein, one of the report’s authors.
Qualcomm Life, the health and life sciences subsidiary of communications giant Qualcomm, has purchased medical device and health IT integrator Capsule Technologie for an undisclosed sum.
Kinnser Software recently rolled out a mobile application for the growing home health field that is says enables clinicians to complete documentation within the EMR, even without access to the web or cellular service. The field of home health is expected to grow in importance as hospitals look for ways to curb readmission rates for […]