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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 the second, we learned how the initiative gathered steam and took shape into something lasting and transformative.
In this third episode, we again speak with Virtua Health's CIO, Thomas F. Gordon, and his colleague Michael Capriotti, Virtua's president of advanced care operations and logistics.
They describe how the program has continued to thrive, and how it's serving patients and driving efficiencies at the health system – even contributing to new innovations at its brick and mortar hospitals, helping fine-tune throughput analytics and informing efforts like its Enterprise Care Logistics Center.
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Talking points:
- How Virtua's hospital at home program has served as a proving ground for new ideas
- How lessons learned from the initiative are impacting brick and mortar hospitals
- What it has enabled for streamlining throughput and capacity
- Why Virtua stood up its Enterprise Care Logistics Center
- What Gordon and Capriotti see for the future of virtual care
More about this episode:
HIMSSCast: Hospital-at-Home lessons from Virtua Health, Part 1
HIMSSCast: Hospital-at-Home lessons from Virtua Health, Part 2
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140 organizations urge Congress to extend the hospital-at-home program
In search of a long-term approach to telehealth and hospital-at-home
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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.
