Hospital At Home: Great On Paper, Not In Practice

Former nurse advises device manufactures to take care during product development to close the health equity gap

To avoid a wider health equity gap for home-use devices, companies should make social determinants of health a key consideration in device development, former nurse Amy Hester says.

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While many believe at-home technologies such as remote patient monitoring or telehealth can decrease health care disparities, HD Nursing chairwoman and CEO Amy Hester told Medtech Insight that’s not always the case.

Hester, a former nurse, explained that hospital at home, which allows acute patient care in the home setting, “is really...

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