Better coordination of in-home medical treatment and technological advances could improve care and greatly reduce cost, according to a new study from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
The Deloitte study, Connected Care: Technology Enabled Care at Home, promotes self-care and an electronically connected patient/physician relationship as the foundation of a new model of health care--one designed to put more emphasis on prevention and the seamless coordination of medical treatment, rather than reacting to preventable chronic illness and the subsequent expense.
Effectively applying in-home technologies via the connected care model could lead to increased medication adherence, a reduction in avoidable post-acute complications, and an improvement in self-care management of chronic conditions. The eventual net result, the study projects, could be an annual savings of 20 percent or more--a potential $400 billion savings to the U.S. healthcare system. Access the report.
