In the USA, hospital-at-home (HaH) program involves providing hospitalization services, including 24/7 monitoring, in the comfort of the patient’s home rather than a hospital facility.
Recent technological advancements have allowed clinicians to remotely, safely, and effectively provide care to patients in HaH programs through remote patient monitoring. For example, wearable sensors, which can be further classified as biophysical or biochemical sensors, are capable of measuring a wide range of physiological biometrics.
Over 500,000 different types of medical devices are currently available on the world market. Various advanced medical technologies can be used in a HaH program, some of which include ventilators for respiratory support, homological or peritoneal dialysis systems, and infusion pumps to provide nutrition or medication.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been proposed as a solution to these problems, as this system can combine a wide range of technologies, such as wireless sensor networks, cloud computing, and sensing data, to improve the quality and accuracy of data provided to healthcare providers monitoring patients in a HaH setting.
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