Listen to the Article: How ‘Care at Home’ Ecosystems Can Reshape Patient Care

A strategy around services in a home could enable health systems success in delivering patient-centred care. As eager as Americans may be to leave their homes after close to two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, one prevailing sentiment has become clear, when it comes to healthcare many consumers would prefer options that allow them to remain out of the hospital or facility. To meet that demand, healthcare systems are re-envisioning healthcare at home ecosystems may evolve. Even before the pandemic, care at home was one of the fastest growing provider gross segments because of favourable demographics and regulatory trends. As we noted in from facility to home, how healthcare could shift by 2025, there is an estimated $265 billion worth of care services representing up to 25% of the total cost of care for Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries that could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025.