Will CMS' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?
Signs point to yes – and mature remote patient monitoring and telemedicine tools will be?key to helping providers capitalize on the shift, one technology leader says.
The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has grown to 125 health systems and 289 hospitals in 37 states in less than three years. A number of other health systems and hospitals have secured waivers but haven't yet implemented a program.
Others haven't scaled, because they are discovering that managing all the clinical and non-clinical services associated with hospital-level care in the home is a major undertaking. One way some provider organizations are managing is offloading many services to a technology and services vendor.
Kuldeep Singh Rajput is CEO and founder of Biofourmis, a remote patient monitoring and telehealth technology and services company. We interviewed him to get his expert views on the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program, implementation challenges, how hospitals and health systems can overcome these challenges, and market trends pointing to a permanent hospital at home program from CMS.
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