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In the first installment of this three-episode series, we introduced you to New Jersey-based Virtua Health, which has found success over the past five-plus years growing and scaling its hospital-at-home program.
In this second episode, we again speak with Virtua Chief Information Officer Thomas F. Gordon, and his colleague Michael Capriotti, Virtua's president of advanced care operations and logistics.
They offer perspective and discuss lessons learned as the initiative gathered steam, and describe how they managed the many challenges to ensuring the promising project grew and took shape into something lasting and transformative. Tune in next week for part three of this series.
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Talking points:
- Opportunities and challenges as the hospital-at-home initiative grew and evolved
- Managing people, process and technology
- Answering regulatory and legal questions
- Assessing savings and tracking ROI
- Managing capacity threshold for cost effectiveness
- Ensuring the program was integrated and stayed aligned with larger strategic goals
- Prioritizing patient safety
- Designing for patient experience
- Change management, IT challenges and cybersecurity
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The government shutdown hurts rural and underserved patients, ATA Action says
140 organizations urge Congress to extend the hospital-at-home program
In search of a long-term approach to telehealth and hospital-at-home
Congress looks set to extend telehealth and hospital-at-home flexibilities
Where hospital-at-home and clinical informatics are heading
How health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital at home
Mike Miliard is executive editor of Healthcare IT News
Email the writer: mmiliard@himss.org
Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.
