The Advantages, Challenges, and Costs of Healthcare at Home Services

Switching to fully remote operations during the pandemic was a rushed adventure into what was mostly uncharted territory. There were a lot of challenges and bugs to work out, but there were also plenty of advantages and unforeseen benefits. And it is thanks to those advantages and benefits that healthcare at home is continuing, even as there are still challenges to work on and in-person operations return. While our first big push into remote care was a leap into the unknown, this time we want to make sure that we are surveying the landscape to make this a safe, smart, and financially responsible decision. So let’s take a moment to pause and evaluate healthcare at home to see where we are and where we need to go. We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today community for their thoughts on the advantages, challenges, and costs of healthcare at home, here is what they had to say: Joe Perekupka, CEO at Freespira Advantages of home health: Home health provides an opportunity for patients in desperate need of care the opportunity to get access to a validated treatment that they normally would not have access to due to physician shortages, the inability to get to a clinic or office, or cost issues. It can be especially effective for patients in those underserved or rural areas where we see the largest issues with access to care due to health provider shortages. Currently, 100mm people live in primary care physician shortage areas and 160MM live in mental health provide...
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