This workshop will provide an in-depth evaluation of home health care and the challenges to delivering the “Hospital at Home.” A wide variety of enabling technologies will be reviewed, as well as, the experiences of caregivers. The key roles to successful home care will be reviewed and the challenges identified. At the conclusion of this workshop, attendees will have the knowledge to immediately begin the planning and execution of their home care strategy.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the technologies that enable monitoring from home
• Describe how to leverage automation in Home Care
• Describe the role of the physician, in conjunction with other healthcare professionals, in the provision of home care
• Explain how medications can be managed remotely

Program Agenda

Session Chair:          Mark D. Madigan

Enabling Technologies for the Home

Steve Kell

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Value of Home Care Automation

Mark D. Madigan and Mike Morrisroe

See-M.-Madigan-and-M.-Morrisroe’s-Presentation-Value-of-Home-Care-Automation

The Physician’s Role in Home Care

David O. Barbe, MD, MHA

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Achieving the Hospital at Home

Walter C. Grant

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