article thumbnail

Health systems, care delivery groups, Amazon launch hospital-at-home initiative

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Encourage greater flexibility for home-based care services to meet commercial and Medicare Advantage network adequacy standards. They also point to research showing home-based care to reduce likelihood of hospital readmissions. Advocate for a bundled-payment model for extended care in the home. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

Medicare 212
article thumbnail

Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Orlando Health on Monday announced that it's been approved by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to start delivering hospital-level acute care in adult patients’ homes. WHY IT MATTERS. It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes.

Nursing 109
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. Hospital-at-home is not a discharge from the hospital, it is providing the hospital level care in the home. With that said, hospital-at-home takes the home setting to an all-new level.

Nursing 147
article thumbnail

Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare.

article thumbnail

Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

Department of Justice should step up enforcement of the False Claims Act against medical providers who accept Medicare and Medicaid payments but fail to implement a reasonable level of cybersecurity. Vendors should be ready to assist with data extracts when a hospital comes calling and hospital IT should leverage these relationships.

EHR 99
article thumbnail

How Employer Health Plans Can Utilize Telehealth as a Value-Added Service

care innovations

Keeping hospital admissions to a minimum. By improving patient engagement and healthy behaviors, telehealth has the potential to help keep employees out of the hospital. We're not trying to push as much volume through a hospital,” Marcus says. How Telehealth Helps Meets the Unique Challenges of Employee Health Coverage.

article thumbnail

A hospital without patients

Henry Kotula

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. A visit to the hushed carrels and blinking monitors is a glimpse into a future in which hospital systems are paid more when their patients are healthy, not sick. Located off a superhighway exit in suburban St.

Nursing 32