Hospital-level care at home — some of it provided over the internet — is poised to grow after more than a decade as a niche offering, boosted both by hospitals
Is your living room the future of hospital care?
Major hospital systems are betting big money that the future of hospital care looks a lot like the inside of patients homes.
Hospital-level care at home some of it provided over the internet is poised to grow after more than a decade as a niche offering, boosted both by hospitals eager to ease overcrowding during the pandemic and growing interest by insurers who want to slow health care spending. But a host of challenges remain, from deciding how much to pay for such services to which kinds of patients can safely benefit.