Examining the Realities of Hospital-at-Home Technology Implementation

The concept of hospital-at-home isn’t new, but it’s much more than an industry buzzword. It can be a game-changer for the healthcare industry if we are both innovative and realistic. It has the potential to transform the full experience for both providers and patients. Instead of requiring a patient to be onsite at a facility with immediate availability of a registered nurse, acute hospital care can be provided at home. The idea is to provide quality care outside a traditional hospital, patients must still be monitored, which requires both investments in equipment and technology and in people who can maintain the technology as well as actually use the systems. Quantity of staff depends on multiple factors from the number of patients involved to the quality and complexity of the system. It’s definitely a capital, educational and maintenance investment.