Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Date Submitted: Nov 18, 2022
Open Peer Review Period: Nov 18, 2022 - Jan 13, 2023
Date Accepted: Dec 5, 2023
(closed for review but you can still tweet)
An Introduction of Smart Home Ward-based Hospital-at-Home Care in China
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the dangers of tying healthcare delivery to brick-and-mortar healthcare facilities and has highlighted an ongoing need to create a distributed healthcare delivery ecosystem centered in patients’ homes and the community. Hospital-at-home has been practiced for several decades. However, the wide adoption and implementation of hospital-at-home by patients and service providers remain low. Based on the 5G smart hospital infrastructure, we further explored the smart home ward to extend hospital-based care services to the home setting, which strives to break through the "wall" of trapping centralized hospital-based healthcare services. The home smart ward is a seamless hospital unit managed by health professionals in the hospital. Patients at home receive hospital-level services, including medical monitoring, ward rounds, consultation, and medical care. Smart home ward can be adopted with the two hospital-at-home models: early-supported discharge (ESD) and admission avoidance (AA), offering integrated health monitoring services, medical care, and rehabilitation in the home setting.
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