Home-based care is the inevitable and fortunate result of several factors: longer life expectancies; insufficient Baby Boomer savings; new wearable and home-based healthcare diagnostic, tracking and treatment devices; and the reality that homes are happier, more affordable places to be old and stay healthy.
Kevin Petrie, tech evangelist at Attunity in Burlington, Mass.: To successfully implement home-based care, hospitals need to start implementing real-time data integration platforms. Data needs to move in real time so doctors and hospitals can make the proper decisions — whether in the hospital, or in the home. With different data formats coming in from different places, hospitals require intelligence that can handle the load and the variety. Reliable, efficient, real-time data is essential in order to make home based care a success.