Some Details about an Emerging Healthcare Service -- Hospital-at-Home (HaH)

One of the new services in healthcare, hospital-at-home (HaH), has caught my attention. I encountered an article providing more details about one company in this business (see:In-Home Healthcare Companies Bring High-Acuity Care, Including Clinical Laboratory Testing, to Patients at their Homes and Workplaces). Below is an excerpt from it:Whatever name it is given, the high cost of keeping a patient overnight in a hospital is motivating a range of healthcare players to develop innovative ways to provide care to patients —even patients with acute conditions—in their home....One such company isDispatchHealth...which recently brought its “ER-at-Home” in-home healthcare model to cities in Texas, Massachusetts, and Washington State.Focused primarily on seniors with high-acuity medical conditions, Patients or caregivers contact DispatchHealth through their smartphone app, website, or phone call line and the company sends over a home care team consisting of a physician assistant or nurse practitioner, along with an [emergency] medical technician. The team has the ability to perform clinical laboratory studies, infusion, EKGs, and some higher-level procedures, such as the repair of complex lacerations........DispatchHealth provides both mobile and virtual healthcare, is in-network with healthcare insurance companies, and has relationships with healthcare systems... “Up to 50% of people who visit the emergency room every day could be treated in a lower cost setting,” said D...
Source: Lab Soft News - Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Tags: Clinical Lab Testing Cost of Healthcare Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Source Type: blogs