Agility in Action: Taking Hospital-Level Care Home Amid a Global Pandemic
Despite old criticisms about our healthcare system’s struggles with change, the COVID-19 pandemic has proven that, with its back against the wall, the American healthcare industry is very capable of adapting to urgent issues while maintaining high-quality patient care.
Ingenuity in a Crisis
The 36 Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies invest in emerging healthcare companies through the Blue Venture Fund, which seeks to spark innovation in healthcare…
Has the Time Finally Come for Hospital at Home?
The Commonwealth Fund, July 8, 2020 Concerns about possible surges of COVID-19 patients, combined with the spread of value-based payment and companies offering technology and…
Home Sweet Hospital
Tradeoffs Podcast, May 20, 2020 The coronavirus has left some hospitals empty and others overrun. One fix to both problems is to move care for…
Easing the COVID-19 Capacity Crunch
Progress Health, April 2020 Though many heard the term “social distancing” for the first time only recently, for months, government and medical officials across the country…
Newt’s World Episode 71: Health Care Breakthroughs in COVID-19 – Home Recovery
Newt’s World Podcast, Newt Gingrich, April 2020 At home recovery care is a new model of remote hospital care which is creating positive patient outcomes….
A Shock to the System
Nashville Business Journal, Joel Stinnett, April 2020 With nearly 2,000 of New York City’s more than 72,000 COVID-19 patients flooding the 3,300-bed Mount Sinai Health…
Some of the nation’s largest health systems want to care for patients in their homes. Here’s why.
Healthcare Dive, By Samantha Liss, November 2019 Some of the nation’s largest hospital systems are turning to a startup to help them deliver at-home hospital…
Highmark Health to deliver hospital care at home
Modern Healthcare, By Shelby Livingston, November 2019 When a patient turns up in the emergency department at one of Allegheny Health Network’s hospitals with uncomplicated…
Highmark Health Collaborates with Contessa to Enhance Home Based Acute Care Model for Highmark Health Plan Members
Pittsburgh, PA AND Nashville, Tenn. — (November 13, 2019) — Highmark Health, a leading national health and wellness organization, today announced that it is working…
No Place Like Home: Bringing Inpatient Care to the Patient
New England Journal of Medicine, Catalyst, By Narayana Murali, MD and Travis Messina, August 2019 Online Case Study: http://bit.ly/2MlZNHZ KEY TAKEAWAYS Establish clear processes and…
In rural Midwest, a telehealth community thrives
American Medical Assosication, By Andis Robeznieks, June 2019 Jody Clements was bowling with his kids—and rather poorly, he recalls—when he felt a sudden pain in…