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Hospital-at-home programs are on the rise, and support from the CMS could be the push hospitals need to fully embrace remote care programs

And in October, Deloitte launched Hospital in Home—a connected care offering that provides a remote home monitoring system for health systems to deliver care to patients in their homes. These kinds of hospital-at-home programs can help hospitals shorten the length of an inpatient stay, boost patient satisfaction, and improve health outcomes—but up until now, costs of implementing something like this may have been high without adequate reimbursement.

Now that the CMS has outright offered logistical support and reimbursement for remote hospital care, more hospitals may step up to participate.Join other Insider Intelligence clients who receive this Briefing, along with other Digital Health forecasts, briefings, charts, and research reports to their inboxes each day.

 

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