FHC #93: Zeev Neuwirth on the future of healthcare
Fixing Healthcare Podcast
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The Future of Hospital at Home
The fixed cost of being in a hospital, the infrastructure itself could be anywhere from two to five million dollars. So I think when you start to move care to a different location, which is fundamentally its people's homes and you lower the cost of that infrastructure, there's no question. In terms of convenience, hands down, we know that this is so much more convenient and comfortable for patients and their families. People love it. They're in their homes. They feel comfortable. They've got the food they want. The risk of infection, of course, is greatly reduced. From a quality perspective, from a cost perspective and from a consumer, customer or patient perspective,hands down, this
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