Health systems are eyeing home-based care as a priority trend in healthcare, said Daphne Bascom, MD, vice president of population health at Saint Luke's Health System in Kansas City, Mo.
Throughout the pandemic, healthcare professionals have looked toward homes as another frontier for care, and Dr. Bascom predicts it won't go away anytime soon, she said during an episode of "Becker's Payer Issues Podcast."
Dr. Bascom also mentioned lifestyle medicine, virtual care and monitoring leaders in retail and on-demand spaces as priorities for payer and provider leaders.
Below is an excerpt from the podcast. Listen to the full interview here.
Dr. Daphne Bascom: I know that most of your listeners have seen [home-based care], whether it's the waivers that came as part of the pandemic related to "hospital at home" or Humana's purchase of Kindred at Home.
The focus of home as a venue of care needs to be something that we all track, whether we're thinking of primary care, urgent care, acute care, traditional home care or hospice care. The home now needs to become another location of care. We all look at how our health system focuses on delivering care in the home, and it's not easy.