SOLUTION PROVIDER Q&A
Current Health’s Remote Healthcare Platform is Fueling New, Home-Based Care Models
There has been real progress around leveraging remote monitoring solutions to cope with the pandemic. How can that momentum be maintained going
forward? COVID-19 created a clear need to deliver care at home using remote monitoring. While this new familiarity with home- based care will certainly make it hard to go back, this is also in part due to the slow, but substantial shifts in payer policy and consumer behavior over the past three years. Today, we’re seeing a real move- ment to unbundle hospital-based services and broad shifts to deliver more services at home. Even with the end of the pan- demic in sight, this isn’t slowing down.
How are you specifi cally helping your customers in this area as
they respond to the pandemic? Current Health is a remote healthcare
delivery platform that enables early, pre- ventive treatment delivery to patients in their own home. We serve as the single point of insight into patient health outside of the hospital, using physiological health data and machine learning to identify patient risk and enable early interven- tion at scale. Our platform is used by hospitals across the U.S. and UK to sup- port Hospital at Home, transitional care programs, and chronic care management. Throughout the pandemic, our plat-
form has helped hospitals preserve capacity by managing COVID-positive patients at home as well as reduce virus exposure for high-risk patients - like those with cancer - without compro- mising care. Beyond helping healthcare providers enable new home-based care models, our platform has been used by pharmaceutical companies and medical research facilities, like the Mayo Clinic, as they conduct trials to further understand and combat COVID-19 through research and a vaccine.
What are the most successful remote monitoring and hospital- at-home programs doing right? What have been their best practices?
Our most successful partners don’t just try to add technology into an existing model; they revisit the model itself and look at how technology can enable them to act differently. One example is EHR integra- tion. Yes, vital sign data must seamlessly fl ow into the EHR; but more importantly, we must rethink how this data will be used and who will benefi t, rather than just seeing the EMR as somewhere to send large volumes of data that never gets used. Our thesis as a company is that data
on its own has no value. Current Health’s whole purpose is to try and derive action- able insights from that data to drive ear- lier clinical interventions. As we shift to managing larger patient populations home, we are going to need an intelli- gence layer to say, ‘this is the patients who need review and treatment.’ That’s where Current Health comes in to provide both the patient monitoring as well as intel- ligence to fuel clinical decision making.
What are the structural impediments and challenges to creating an architecture of
remote care delivery? We’ve found that with our patient pop- ulations, 25 to 50 percent don’t have home internet. Disproportionately, these patients are likely to be of low socioeco- nomic status, over 85 years old, and peo- ple of color. This means that the patients who stand to gain the most from remote care delivery are the ones who lack equi- table access. This “digital divide” is super challeng-
ing to solve. In reality, our investment in things like plug-and-play cellular connectivity for patients almost rivals what we invest in our health monitor- ing technology. This is because it’s more
Christopher McCann CEO Current Health
than just providing a service. That part is easy. It’s the fi nal 20 percent of ensur- ing that your product can work for every individual patient that is the hardest, but most important part.
Can you offer any predictions as it relates to remote monitoring in
the near future? I think creating a permanent Hospital at Home reimbursement program is almost inevitable, especially after CMS’ new acute hospital care at home program. More near term, just as remote monitor- ing has played a large role in providing care during the pandemic, I think it will continue to play a large role as things return to normal. We will still need to maintain caution as hospitals return to pre-pandemic patient volumes and remote monitoring can continue to help organizations care for their most vulner- able at home as they navigate this path.
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