“Hospital-At-Home” Care Helps Some Patients Avoid “Germy And Noisy” Hospitals.

reported on “hospital-at-home” scenarios where physicians and nurses come to patients’ home twice a day and perform any needed tests or bloodwork to help patients avoid “germy and noisy” hospitals and reduce labor costs. A wireless patch can be affixed to a patient’s skin to track vital signs and send a steady stream of data to the hospital. While such systems have been in place in other countries, “a key obstacle” in the US is getting health insurers to pay for it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/hospitals-are-germy-noisy-places-some-acutely-ill-patients-are-getting-treated-at-home-instead/2018/03/30/5fcb5006-2155-11e8-badd-7c9f29a55815_story.html