Hospital at home: the future of care is anywhere, anytime

Extending the reach of patient care through connected technology means empowering providers to understand a patient’s wellbeing in real-time and make confident decisions about the most appropriate care setting for each patient. Collecting, organizing, analyzing, and acting upon critical patient data via cloud-based solutions that break down data silos can help to keep patients with chronic conditions or rising acute needs out of the hospital and comfortably at home. Proactive monitoring can not only reduce a patient’s risk of admission, but also help health systems better manage their patient load and resources.

Whether a patient was recently discharged or needs consistent oversight of a chronic condition, advanced remote patient monitoring can help provide clinicians with a holistic view of a patient from afar. Subjective patient-reported responses via ongoing surveys can be combined with objective data capture of vital signs and other metrics from connected devices to give providers a comprehensive understanding of a patient’s status. When coupled with strong predictive algorithms, providers can help ensure early identification of patients with deteriorating conditions and focus their attention accordingly. Virtual care ultimately helps patients take a more active role in managing their health – empowering them to track important health indicators and have meaningful conversations with their clinician about their progress can help improve long-term outcomes.

Alongside the ATA, Philips is a founding partner of Telehealth Awareness Week, which takes place September 19 – 25, to reinforce the central role that telehealth plays in ensuring everyone has access to safe, effective and appropriate care when and where they need it. Philips participated in two on-demand webinars alongside other industry experts that explore hospital-at-home models and activating healthcare anywhere:

• Healthcare Anywhere: Transforming How and Where People Receive Care (available On Demand via the Telehealth Awareness Week events page)
  Hear leaders in virtual care discuss how they work with their health systems, communities, and networks to adapt to the prominence of the home in care, how they are advancing digital transformation and enabling collaboration across care settings, and how they are investing in data-driven insights to deliver personalized care at scale.
• Hospital at Home – A Value-Driven and Sustainable Care Model?
  After more than a decade as a niche offering, hospital-level care at home is ready to rise, boosted by hospitals seeking to relieve overcrowding during the pandemic, changing patient preference, and insurers interested in lowering healthcare costs. But, implementation roadblocks, including patient selection, care management and discharge for home care, will present new challenges and opportunities for a diverse hospital-at-home player ecosystem. Join a panel of experts to learn from their experiences and walk away with actionable strategies for your organization.

To access Philips’ Telehealth Awareness Week Resource Center, visit this site. To learn more about Telehealth Awareness Week and how you can join us in promoting telehealth awareness, click here.
 
[1] Hakkennes S, Singh P. Gartner market guide for virtual care solutions. October 26, 2020