Home healthcare services will expand to include acute care, long-term care, technology-assisted care and primary care, according to a briefing commissioned by the U.S. Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation. Healthcare professionals will be able to share patient information readily, engage in teamwork and strengthen the continuum of patient care from hospital to home. Advocates also used the occasion to call for an end to the so-called 60-day rule; Landers, MPH of Alvere argued that there is a "consensus that that needs to be changed in some way to be able to deploy home healthcare in a way that makes more sense given the evolution in the healthcare system."
Home healthcare services will expand to include acute care, long-term care, technology-assisted care and primary care, according to a briefing commissioned by the U.S. Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation. Healthcare professionals will be able to share patient information readily, engage in teamwork and strengthen the continuum of patient care from hospital to home. Advocates also used the occasion to call for an end to the so-called 60-day rule; Sally Rodriguez, MPH of Alvere argued that there is a "consensus that that needs to be changed in some way to be able to deploy home healthcare in a way that makes more sense given the evolution in the healthcare system."