Live at ViVE S2 E22: Home Sweet Home: How Technology is Revolutionizing Home Healthcare with Rasu Shrestha and Deborah Di Sanzo
The advantages of home health are many, including increased comfort and convenience and reduced risk of things like infection and readmittance for patients.
Technology can be used to increase the success of home health by enabling remote patient monitoring and providing better communication and improved coordination of care between patients and healthcare providers.
All of this can help provide savings for both the patient and the healthcare facility.
Recently Best Buy Health and Atrium Health have partnered to provide hospital-level care at home for a variety of conditions.
On this episode of "Live at ViVE," Dr. Shrestha and Deborah join host Dr. Gautam Gulati and Dr. Jessica Shepheard to discuss Best Buy Health's approach to providing in-home health services and their partnership with Atrium Health designed to transform the healthcare delivery through home health services.
With over 25 years of experience, Rasu B. Shrestha, MD, MBA, is a renowned healthcare innovator and has received numerous accolades. Rasu is the Enterprise Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer for Atrium Health. He leads the organization's innovation strategy and executive leadership for corporate communications and marketing, as well as enterprise data and analytics.
Deborah Di Sanzo is the president of Best Buy Health, where she's responsible for the company's health strategy, connecting people with technology to care for their health at home. With over 30 years of experience in healthcare and technology, she oversees Best Buy Health's wellness, aging, and care at-home focus areas and strategy and corporate development teams.
Listen in as they discuss the economic feasibility of in-home care, the legal issues surrounding it, as well as personal stories and experiences related to in-home care and the impact it's having on patients and caregivers.
Topics Covered
- Home sweet home: How home health services are revolutionizing healthcare by delivery quality care in the comfort of patients' homes
- The key benefits of home health services
- The role of technology and other digital health tools in enabling home health services
- Best Buy Health’s remote patient monitoring devices and other home health products
- Atrium Health's Hospital at Home program and the range of care options it provides for patients
- The economics of home health services to reduce healthcare costs across the board
- How Atrium Health is managing the legal implications of home health services
- The patient and caregiver experience in home health services
- How Best Buy Health and Atrium Health are working to bring the future of healthcare to other providers and patients
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