Category: telehealth

Home healthcare remains the fastest-growing segment in the healthcare sector, with spending increasing by 11.1% year over year in October 2024, according to Altarum’s Jan. 8 Health Sector Economic Indicators report.

Lee Health Chief Nursing Officer Jennifer Higgins, DNP, told Becker’s that the organization will continue to invest in home-based care, starting with its hospital-at-home program, which brings hospital-level treatment directly to patients’ homes.

Mass General Brigham plans to expand its hospital-at-home program to more specialties in 2025 and evolve beyond episodic care toward a “seamless home-based care continuum,” a program leader told Becker’s.

The merger of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System, finalized Jan. 1, will boost virtual care offerings for patients, the Leader-Telegram in Eau Claire, Wis., reported.

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth is rolling out an acute hospital care at home program.

Hospital-at-home programs are largely concentrated at large, urban, nonprofit and academic facilities, a new study found.

Connecticut-based telehealth company Meditelecare, which operates in at least 17 states including Kentucky, has agreed to pay $358,514 to resolve allegations of improper Medicare billing.

More health systems have been launching or expanding their hospital-at-home programs.

Mayo Clinic’s hospital-at-home program has expanded in the past year but will need the equivalent of an “Uber app” to scale, a leader told Becker’s.

Telemedicine is becoming an indispensable part of healthcare, according to Doximity’s Dec. 17 report.