# Hospital-at-Home Model * **Definition:** A healthcare delivery model that allows patients to receive acute medical care in their own homes instead of in a traditional hospital setting, utilizing technology and healthcare professionals to monitor and treat patients remotely. * **Taxonomy:** Healthcare Topics / Hospital-at-Home Model ## News * Selected news on the topic of **Hospital-at-Home Model**, for healthcare technology leaders * 1.4K news items are in the system for this topic * Posts have been filtered for tech and healthcare-related keywords | Date | Title | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | 5/19/2025 | [**How Valley Health System is building a hospital at home**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/innovation/how-valley-health-system-is-building-a-hospital-at-home/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 5/16/2025 | [**Dr. Damanjeet Chaubey, Vice President of Clinical Affairs at Clover Health**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/podcasts/becker-s-payer-issues-podcast/dr-damanjeet-chaubey-vice-president-of-clinical-affairs-at-clover-health/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 5/13/2025 | [**AdventHealth to launch virtual hypertension program: 5 notes - Becker's Hospital Review**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/uncategorized/adventhealth-to-launch-virtual-hypertension-program-5-notes/) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 4/25/2025 | [**Global Virtual Care Market to Surge: From $7.9 Billion in 2023 to $24.1 Billion by 2030 at a ...**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-virtual-care-market-to-surge-from-7-9-billion-in-2023-to-24-1-billion-by-2030-at-a-19-cagr---valuates-reports-302438427.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 3/24/2025 | [**UAE Remote Patient Monitoring Devices Market 2030: How Technology is Revolutionizing ...**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uae-remote-patient-monitoring-devices-market-2030-viz1f/) | [[Linkedin]] | | 1/22/2025 | [**ActiGraph Accelerates Clinical Trial Modernization With Transformational Acquisition Of ...**](https://www.clinicalleader.com/doc/actigraph-accelerates-clinical-trial-modernization-with-transformational-acquisition-of-biofourmis-life-science-business-0001) | [[Clinical Leader]] | | 1/22/2025 | [**ActiGraph Accelerates Clinical Trial Modernization With Transformational Acquisition Of ...**](http://www.clinicalleader.com/doc/actigraph-accelerates-clinical-trial-modernization-with-transformational-acquisition-of-biofourmis-life-science-business-0001) | [[Clinical Leader]] | | 1/17/2025 | [**The Evolution of Virtual Health Using RPM and Point-of-care (POC) Technology**](https://www.healthtechmagazines.com/the-evolution-of-virtual-health-using-rpm-and-point-of-care-poc-technology/) | [[Health Tech Magazines]] | | 1/15/2025 | [**Wearable Devices and Mobile Applications - 2025 Health IT Predictions**](https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2025/01/15/wearable-devices-and-mobile-applications-2025-health-it-predictions/) | [[Healthcare IT Today]] | | 1/14/2025 | [**Healthcare Trends Shaping 2025 And Insights For Industry Leaders - Forbes**](https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2025/01/14/healthcare-trends-shaping-2025-and-insights-for-industry-leaders/) | [[Forbes]] | | 1/3/2025 | [**Q&A: Philips on evolving care models, cybersecurity and digital health's future**](https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/qa-philips-evolving-care-models-cybersecurity-and-digital-healths-future) | [[MobiHealthNews]] | | 12/23/2024 | [**36 chief innovation officers to know - 2024 - Becker's Hospital Review**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/36-chief-innovation-officers-to-know-2024.html) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 12/20/2024 | [**IoT in Healthcare Market Trends Analysis Report 2024-2031 - Increasing Focus on Patient-centric Care Delivery Boosting Adoption - ResearchAndMarkets.com**](http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241220548748/en/IoT-in-Healthcare-Market-Trends-Analysis-Report-2024-2031---Increasing-Focus-on-Patient-centric-Care-Delivery-Boosting-Adoption---ResearchAndMarkets.com/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-RLXHJgazfQJNuOVHefdHP-D8R-QU5o2AvY8bhI9uvWSD8DYIYv4TIC1g1u0AKcacnnViVjtb72bOP4-4nHK5ieT3WxPE8m_kWI77F87CseT) | [[Business Wire]] | | 12/20/2024 | [**IoT in Healthcare Market Trends Analysis Report 2024-2031 - Increasing Focus on Patient-centric Care Delivery Boosting Adoption - ResearchAndMarkets.com**](http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241220548748/en/IoT-in-Healthcare-Market-Trends-Analysis-Report-2024-2031---Increasing-Focus-on-Patient-centric-Care-Delivery-Boosting-Adoption---ResearchAndMarkets.com/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-Q-tiwWZwkcswR1UZtV7eGe24xL9TZOyQUMS3J72mJlQ7fxFuNFTHSunhvli30RlBNXya2izy9YOgHlBiZQk2LOzmn6JePCpHPCiYGaEx4DL1Rq8pNwkf3AarimpDzQGuQ==) | [[Business Wire]] | | 12/19/2024 | [**IPS tner to Advance Digitally-Enabled Hospital-at-Home Care**](https://medtechintelligence.com/news_article/ips-dime-partner-to-advance-digitally-enabled-hospital-at-home-care/) | [[MedTech Intelligence]] | | 12/19/2024 | [**Critical Care Equipment Market Analysis with a Striking CAGR of 4.2rom 2024 to 2031 - LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/critical-care-equipment-market-analysis-striking-cagr-42-from-x7fff) | [[Linkedin]] | | 12/17/2024 | [**Intelligent Product Solutions Partners with The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) Initiative to Advance Digitally-Enabled Hospital-at-Home Care**](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/12/17/2998297/0/en/Intelligent-Product-Solutions-Partners-with-The-Digital-Medicine-Society-DiMe-Initiative-to-Advance-Digitally-Enabled-Hospital-at-Home-Care.html) | [[Globe Newswire]] | | 12/17/2024 | [**DiMe Announces New Connected Health Collaborative Community - PR Newswire**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dime-announces-new-connected-health-collaborative-community-302333211.html) | [[PR Newswire]] | | 12/17/2024 | [**DiMe Announces New Connected Health Collaborative Community - Morningstar**](https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20241217fl81113/dime-announces-new-connected-health-collaborative-community) | [[Morningstar]] | | 12/15/2024 | [**Key Healthcare CIO Trends To Watch In 2025 - Forbes**](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidchou/2024/12/15/key-healthcare-cio-trends-to-watch-in-2025/) | [[Forbes]] | | 12/5/2024 | [**Estimating the size of the Blood Pressure Oximeter Blood Glucose Meter market with current ...**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/estimating-size-blood-pressure-oximeter-glucose-meter-market-qitff) | [[Linkedin]] | | 11/19/2024 | [**Gary Rosenfield, Director, Medicaid Product , United Concordia Dental**](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/podcasts/becker-s-payer-issues-podcast/gary-rosenfield-chief-strategy-and-development-officer-of-evernorth-health-services-home-based-care-138734433.html) | [[Beckers Hospital Review]] | | 11/15/2024 | [**Centering Caregiver and Provider Feedback in Home-Based Care Innovation**](https://medcitynews.com/2024/11/centering-caregiver-and-provider-feedback-in-home-based-care-innovation/) | [[MedCity News]] | | 9/21/2024 | [**Weekly Roundup - September 21, 2024 - Healthcare IT Today**](https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2024/09/21/weekly-roundup-september-21-2024/) | [[Healthcare IT Today]] | | 7/24/2024 | [**Bringing Hospital Care Home: A Revolution in Rural Healthcare - HealthTech Magazine**](https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2024/07/bringing-hospital-care-home-revolution-rural-healthcare) | [[HealthTech Magazine]] | ## Topic Overview (Some LLM-derived content — please confirm with above primary sources) ### Key Players - **Medically Home**: A company specializing in decentralized care, providing solutions for health systems to deliver hospital-at-home services. - **Advocate Health**: The largest hospital-at-home program in the U.S., known for treating over 13,000 patients with high satisfaction and lower readmission rates. - **OSF HealthCare**: A health system that launched a digital hospital-at-home program combining technology with in-person caregivers. - **Moving Health Home**: An advocacy group urging Congress to extend the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver to support the hospital-at-home model. - **DispatchHealth**: A provider of in-home healthcare services that conducts home visits for patients recently discharged from hospitals. - **AdventHealth**: A healthcare system that collaborates with Biofourmis to enhance its Hospital-at-Home program. - **VCU Health**: Launched a hospital-at-home program utilizing technology for 24/7 access to virtual nursing teams. - **SCP Health**: A healthcare provider offering clinical services that enhance the capacity of health systems to deliver hospital-at-home care. - **Vivalink**: A company that has launched a Hospital-at-Home (HaH) Starter Program to facilitate the adoption of HaH programs by nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. - **MedStar Health**: A healthcare provider that has partnered with DispatchHealth to offer at-home care services post-hospitalization. - **Circadian Health**: A company focused on integrating remote patient monitoring devices into its virtual specialty care platform to enhance patient outcomes in hospital-at-home models. - **TruDoc Healthcare**: A provider specializing in Hospital-at-Home and Telehealth services, partnering with Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare to enhance patient care. - **Tampa General Hospital (TGH)**: A leading healthcare provider that has successfully implemented the TGH at Home program, demonstrating superior patient outcomes and high satisfaction ratings through an integrated care model. - **Athelas**: A healthcare technology company that partnered with Resilient Healthcare Corp to enhance outpatient care and hospital billing through innovative health-at-home solutions. - **Biofourmis**: A health technology company collaborating with Lee Health to launch a 'Hospital-at-Home' program, integrating remote patient monitoring capabilities. - **Intelligent Product Solutions (IPS)**: A partner in the Advancing a Sustainable Hospital-at-Home Ecosystem project, focusing on enhancing at-home digitally-enabled healthcare. - **Digital Medicine Society (DiMe)**: An organization focused on enhancing connected health technologies and promoting hospital-at-home models. - **Cleveland Clinic**: Partnering with Masimo to enhance remote patient monitoring and virtual critical care services. ### Partnerships and Collaborations - **Biofourmis and Lee Health**: Launching a 'Hospital-at-Home' program to provide hospital-level care at home, enhancing remote patient monitoring. - **Medically Home and SCP Health**: Partnered to provide clinical command center services, enabling health systems to deliver hospital-at-home care. - **Intelligent Product Solutions and Digital Medicine Society**: Working together on the Hospital-at-Home project to improve in-home patient care through collaboration among over 20 partners. - **Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare and TruDoc Healthcare**: Collaborated to enhance patient experiences through innovative 'Hospital at Home' services in the Kingdom. - **Biofourmis and AdventHealth**: This collaboration focuses on implementing a remote patient management program to enhance the Hospital-at-Home initiative, ensuring continuity of care. - **MedStar Health and DispatchHealth**: This partnership aims to provide seamless at-home care for patients after hospital stays, improving patient outcomes and satisfaction. - **Connected Health Collaborative Community (CHcc)**: A collaborative initiative involving healthcare, technology, and government experts to optimize technology use in hospital-at-home care models. - **Intelligent Product Solutions (IPS)**: Joined the Advancing a Sustainable Hospital-at-Home Ecosystem at Scale project to enhance at-home digital healthcare. - **TGH and Shields Health Innovations**: This partnership combines internal expertise with external resources to effectively scale hospital-at-home programs, ensuring high-quality care. - **Athelas and Resilient Healthcare Corp**: This collaboration aims to transform outpatient care and streamline billing processes through advanced technologies and AI integration. - **HealthTap and Aeroflow Healthcare**: Entered a partnership to improve patient access to primary care and durable medical equipment services. - **Cleveland Clinic and Masimo**: Integrating patient monitoring platforms to improve clinical decision support for hospitalized patients. - **Virtua Health and Unite Us**: This partnership enhances care coordination by connecting patients to essential community services, addressing social determinants of health. - **Circadian Health and Tenovi**: This collaboration integrates next-generation remote patient monitoring devices into Circadian's platform to improve chronic disease management. - **Netsmart and Apricot**: Collaborating to streamline documentation processes for home care and hospice agencies using generative AI technology. - **Bamboo Health and Radial**: Partnered to integrate Bamboo Health's Pings solution with Radial Care software to enhance care coordination and improve outcomes for high-risk Medicare patients. - **ActiGraph and Biofourmis**: ActiGraph's acquisition of Biofourmis Connect aims to create a unified digital health ecosystem for clinical research and enhance in-home care solutions. ### Innovations, Trends, and Initiatives - **Hospital-at-Home Model**: This model emphasizes convenience, quality, and cost-effectiveness by providing hospital-level care for acute conditions in patients' homes. - **Patient-Centric Care Models**: Increasing adoption of hospital-at-home models, showing improved patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes. - **Acute Hospital Care at Home Program**: An initiative supporting home-based care and increasing reimbursement rates for home health services. - **CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver**: Introduced in 2020 to allow providers to receive reimbursement for delivering hospital-level care at home, highlighting the model's cost-effectiveness. - **AHCaH Waiver**: The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver allows hospitals to receive equivalent payments for home-based care, facilitating the growth of hospital-at-home programs. - **AI and Remote Patient Monitoring**: Emerging technologies that enhance patient care management and reduce length of stay in hospitals. - **Digital Health Reimbursement**: Growing acceptance of digital health tools and reimbursement policies is facilitating the expansion of home-based care. - **Remote Health Monitoring**: TMA Solutions' platform continuously tracks vital signs and lifestyle factors, providing alerts during emergencies and improving patient management. - **Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)**: RPM is gaining traction as a transformative approach for home-based care, enabling real-time data analysis and personalized care. - **Remote Monitoring Technologies**: Advancements in remote patient monitoring and telehealth services are enabling better patient management and proactive healthcare delivery. - **Connected Care**: The trend towards integrating patients, physicians, and technology is reshaping healthcare delivery, emphasizing patient engagement and personalized treatment. - **Telehealth and Virtual Care**: The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of telehealth and virtual care models, leading to increased accessibility and efficiency in patient care. - **AI Integration**: The use of AI in healthcare is expanding, particularly in home care settings, to enhance patient monitoring and improve outcomes. ### Challenges and Concerns - **Staffing Shortages**: Challenges in recruiting and retaining staff for hospital-at-home programs, impacting service delivery. - **Operational and Scalability Challenges**: Despite the success of hospital-at-home models, there are ongoing concerns regarding their operational viability and scalability. - **Emergency Response Time**: Patients express concerns about emergency response times in hospital-at-home models, necessitating effective management strategies. - **Regulatory and Compliance Issues**: Challenges include varying regulations across countries and concerns about data security and patient privacy that can hinder the adoption of hospital-at-home models. - **Reimbursement Framework**: The long-term sustainability of hospital-at-home care depends on establishing a permanent reimbursement framework to support these services. - **Regulatory Uncertainty**: Concerns about the future of hospital-at-home services post-pandemic and the need for long-term policy support. - **Integration Costs**: High integration costs and limited scalability due to fragmented data exchange in the medical device industry hinder the effective implementation of hospital-at-home models. - **Funding and Investment Challenges**: Digital health startups face reduced valuations and funding challenges, impacting the growth of hospital-at-home initiatives. - **Awareness and Adoption**: Despite growing consumer enthusiasm for digital health tools, many remain unaware of available care-at-home programs, which can limit the model's reach. - **Regulatory and Reimbursement Structures**: There is a need for these structures to evolve to support the growing sector of in-home healthcare. - **Shortage of Caregivers**: The increasing demand for home healthcare services is challenged by a shortage of qualified caregivers, necessitating innovative solutions. - **Insurance Coverage Limitations**: Limited reimbursement options for at-home skilled nursing services, affecting the financial viability of these programs. - **Regulatory Compliance**: Healthcare organizations face challenges in adhering to regulations while implementing innovative technologies, particularly in the context of telehealth and home care. - **Technology Adoption Barriers**: High investment costs and low awareness in certain demographics can hinder the growth of home care technologies, impacting access to care. - **Legislative Uncertainty**: Concerns regarding the future of the CMS waiver for hospital-at-home programs, which is set to expire without further Congressional action. - **Healthcare Deserts**: Approximately 30 million people in the U.S. live in healthcare deserts, highlighting the need for mobile technology to enhance service delivery. - **Technology Adoption**: Many older adults feel that technology has not effectively improved their health routines, indicating a gap in user-friendly solutions. - **Cybersecurity Risks**: As healthcare increasingly relies on digital solutions, concerns about data breaches and ransomware attacks are rising, necessitating robust cybersecurity measures. - **Cybersecurity Threats**: The healthcare industry faces increasing cybersecurity threats, prompting regulatory bodies to tighten requirements for digital health technologies. ## Related Topics [[Hospital-at-Home Programs]]