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Home Hospital: Potential Gains and Obstacles
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 886" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/industry-insights/home-hospital-potential-gains-obstacles" target="_blank"><strong>Home Hospital: Potential Gains and Obstacles - Harvard</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>Home hospital is an innovative care model which builds on advances in telemedicine that make it increasingly possible to deliver hospital services outside of the traditional setting. The upside? Costs can be decreased while patients recover from the comfort of their homes with improvements in quality and satisfaction with the experience. But challenges remain in identifying the right combination of technology and medical personnel to improve and optimize this option.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><strong><a href="https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/135339" target="_blank">David M. Levine, MD, MPH, MA</a>, </strong>is a general internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he directs their <a href="http://homehospital.bwh.harvard.edu/" target="_blank">Home Hospital project</a>. He answers three questions for Executive Education on the home hospital model, patient impact and changes in technology that might broaden its appeal as part of health care delivery.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Interview condensed and edited for clarity.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 886, member: 1"] [URL='https://executiveeducation.hms.harvard.edu/industry-insights/home-hospital-potential-gains-obstacles'][B]Home Hospital: Potential Gains and Obstacles - Harvard[/B][/URL] [I]Home hospital is an innovative care model which builds on advances in telemedicine that make it increasingly possible to deliver hospital services outside of the traditional setting. The upside? Costs can be decreased while patients recover from the comfort of their homes with improvements in quality and satisfaction with the experience. But challenges remain in identifying the right combination of technology and medical personnel to improve and optimize this option. [B][URL='https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/135339']David M. Levine, MD, MPH, MA[/URL], [/B]is a general internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he directs their [URL='http://homehospital.bwh.harvard.edu/']Home Hospital project[/URL]. He answers three questions for Executive Education on the home hospital model, patient impact and changes in technology that might broaden its appeal as part of health care delivery. Interview condensed and edited for clarity.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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