Hospital is Not the Home 8 Lessons Learned from Implementing Remote Patient Monitoring for Acute and Transitional Care at Home

Asset 1: Maximizing the Impact of Acute Care at Home: Three Health Systems Share Their Success

Hospital-at-home programs have revolutionized how health systems deliver care, enabling them to provide hospital-level services in the comfort of a patient's home. As these programs continue to succeed, many organizations are experiencing growing internal demand to expand these services to additional use cases.

This whitepaper explores how three leading health systems have evolved their strategies to broaden the range of conditions they treat and extend the benefits of acute care at home to a wider population of patients. UMass Memorial Health, a nonprofit safety-net medical center in Massachusetts, discusses its expansion into postpartum care-at-home, demonstrating how this has alleviated capacity constraints by allowing earlier discharges and safe home monitoring. Mass General Brigham, another Massachusetts health system grappling with capacity issues, details its post-surgical care-at-home program, which has improved patient experience and addressed inefficiencies. Virtua Health, a healthcare provider in New Jersey, discusses its expansion into post-discharge care-at-home, and how it helped bridge the gap between acute care and the ambulatory setting.

After reading this white paper, you will have a clearer understanding of how your organization can identify opportunities for expansion within the acute care-at-home space, as well as best practices for getting started.

Asset 2: Hospital is Not the Home: 8 Lessons Learned from Implementing RPM for Acute and Transitional Care at Home

Hospitals are well-known as highly controlled environments where medical teams closely monitor patients and quickly intervene when concerns arise. This structure ensures that patient progress is continuously tracked and managed. However, as healthcare organizations increasingly transition to care-at-home programs, we encounter a new reality—one that is less controlled, yet highly appealing. Patients now have the freedom to recover in the comfort of their own homes. But this also means that when remote monitoring technology detects an abnormal reading, there isn't a medical team steps away to assess the situation.

The challenge, then, is how we can become more attuned to the unique dynamics of the home environment, enabling us to interpret in-home data accurately and provide optimal care. How do we balance data accuracy with patient acceptability? How do we distinguish between normal at-home variability and potential pathology? These questions highlight the need to bridge the gap between remotely collected data and the nuances of a patient's daily life, ensuring that care continues seamlessly outside the hospital setting.

This whitepaper discusses the key strategies for interpreting in-home data for care-at-home programs and share lessons learned from over 40 intermittent and continuous acute care home monitoring programs. After reading this paper, you will gain strategies that can help set new standards for your care-at-home programs and equip your care teams with the knowledge and confidence to safely and effectively monitor patients at home.

Hospital-at-home programs have revolutionized how health systems deliver care, enabling them to provide hospital-level services in the comfort of a patient's home. As these programs continue to succeed, many organizations are experiencing growing internal demand to expand these services to additional use cases.

This whitepaper explores how three leading health systems have evolved their strategies to broaden the range of conditions they treat and extend the benefits of acute care at home to a wider population of patients. UMass Memorial Health, a nonprofit safety-net medical center in Massachusetts, discusses its expansion into postpartum care-at-home, demonstrating how this has alleviated capacity constraints by allowing earlier discharges and safe home monitoring. Mass General Brigham, another Massachusetts health system grappling with capacity issues, details its post-surgical care-at-home program, which has improved patient experience and addressed inefficiencies. Virtua Health, a healthcare provider in New Jersey, discusses its expansion into post-discharge care-at-home, and how it helped bridge the gap between acute care and the ambulatory setting.

After reading this white paper, you will have a clearer understanding of how your organization can identify opportunities for expansion within the acute care-at-home space, as well as best practices for getting started.