Dave Kerwar
Dave Kerwar

Bringing More Patients Home

By MedTech Intelligence Staff
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Hospital at Home models are expanding capacity for overcrowded hospitals and emergency departments and providing comfort to a growing range of patients. Dave Kerwar, co-founder of Inbound Health, discusses the best candidates for hospital at home care and opportunities for MedTech providers to enhance this model of care, as payers and CMS look at long-term adoption.

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Jennifer Kent
Jennifer Kent
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Empowering Patients Through RPM

By Jennifer Kent, Ph.D.
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Remote care in the home relies both on the quality of patient monitoring and on the insights provided to the care team. There is a real danger that data overload and alert fatigue will undermine otherwise well-designed remote patient monitoring (RPM) and Hospital at Home programs. The software platform and algorithms tasked with integrating and evaluating data must identify the data that matters, when it matters.

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Data, Cybersecurity, healthcare
Data, Cybersecurity, healthcare

Critical Issues in Remote Monitoring: Data Capture and Quality

By Jennifer Kent, Ph.D.
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As more healthcare activities take place from home, passive continuous monitoring solutions and new technology such as artificial intelligence will be critical to communications between providers and patients. In addition, new solutions that offer overnight monitoring will play a crucial role in helping to fill the gaps, particularly in assessing patient deterioration or changes in health conditions. The pandemic has forever changed the trajectory of healthcare and specifically virtual care.

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