Hospitals are struggling with long emergency room (ER) wait times, capacity issues, and staffing shortages. A growing number of patients with cellulitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, ...
Philips (NYSE:PHG) continues to find ways to advance patient care, whether in a hospital or at home, or somewhere in between.
Patients who receive hospital care at home generally have lower mortality rates than their brick-and-mortar inpatient counterparts, according to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report on ...
Last November, Lee Health introduced the Hospital at Home program to provide safe, high-quality care (at a level previously only available within the hospital) in the comfort of our patient’s own ...
Hospital-level care at home was gaining traction even before the COVID pandemic, and for good reason: A study published in December 2019 in Annals of Internal Medicine showed that hospitalization at ...
A home-infusion model combining remote physiologic monitoring, virtual command center supervision, and in-home nursing enabled delivery of 93 IV chemotherapy infusions without infusion reactions or ...
Propensity-matched comparisons across 11 Kaiser Permanente Southern California service areas showed similar 30-day composite ...
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Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic plans to deliver medications and supplies by drones to hospital-at-home patients. Drone delivery company Zipline said May 21 that it will use its electric, ...
End stage kidney disease is a life-changing diagnosis, and among the many disruptions it brings is dialysis. The blood-cleansing process is complex, expensive, and time-consuming. It usually requires ...