The retail giants are getting — either indirectly or directly — into home-based care. That matters, because if they didn’t firmly believe in it, they wouldn’t be paying any mind to it at all. “We’re a $270 billion company. … You have to pick what you’re going to spend your time on,” Alan Lotvin, the […]
Category: Innovation
The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model was ahead of its time. Created close to a half century ago, it fits extremely well with the health care issues that seniors are facing in 2021. There are currently 140 PACE programs operating 272 PACE centers across the U.S., serving 55,000 total participants, according […]
Some of the most premier health care organizations in the U.S. are coming together to form the “Advanced Care at Home Coalition.” The newly formed entity will vie for legislation that will allow more patients to receive hospital-level care in their homes moving forward. Many of the provisions that have allowed health systems and home-based […]
Two weeks ago, Home Health Care News hosted our flagship FUTURE Conference in downtown Chicago. Since then, I’ve been reflecting on the event’s panels as well as my on-background conversations to get a better feel for where the health care world — and home-based care, in particular — is headed. Value-based care and the shift […]
Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) has signed an agreement to acquire the home-focused technology platform Current Health in an effort “to help make home the center of health,” according to the company. Along with the likes of Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Best Buy has been one of the retail giants that has steadily […]
With enrollment up and more plans launching each year, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations have had to figure out how to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive field. For many, MA differentiation has meant embracing in-home care and actually acquiring, or investing in, provider partners. The latest example of this trend took place Tuesday, with Minneapolis, […]
The proliferation of hospital-at-home models has been one of the major home-based care trends during the COVID-19 crisis, and players on all sides are bullish that that trend will continue after the pandemic subsides. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) “Acute Hospital Care At Home” waiver program has allowed more health systems […]
Signify Health Inc. (NYSE: SGFY) kicked off 2021 by going public. Since then, the company has only leaned into its commitment to activate the home as a key part of the care continuum. “It’s been a fun couple of quarters so far, being a newly public company,” Peter Boumenot, chief product officer of Signify, said […]
Help at Home is launching a new model of care, one that it believes can be centered entirely around the home instead of the doctor’s office or hospital. The model’s goal is to capture insights from caregivers to recognize client needs and then engage the rest of the health system from there. Dubbed “HealthyMATCH,” it […]
The hospital-at-home concept was pioneered over two decades ago at Johns Hopkins. It became in vogue during the earlier parts of the COVID-19 crisis. Now, it feels like just any other part of the at-home care ecosystem. That means there are a lot more home-based care players by nature, including tech-enabled companies like Biofourmis and […]
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