Sketch note - Technology in Home Healthcare Industry

The article talks about how home health care is an area that demands attention. By the year 2020, there is going to a shortage of medical staff, nurses, and physicians and due to high taxes and costs, patients will further avoid long-term hospital treatments.

Home health care is usually considered for elderly patients but expanding the system beyond these patients and including people with a high number of hospital visits can help reduce the load on the hospital system and also expand the opportunity areas for designers.

The article talks about how mobile technology makes it easier for these products and services around self-management & monitoring reach the broader audience. Some of the challenges that slow the adoption of technology in the lives of home patients are the high cost of these products or services, no standardization in monitoring systems and acceptance of these products and services by insurance companies. Industry and innovators identify the need and are ready to manufacture the technology and the devices, what they are waiting anxiously for is one thing: consumer adoption.

Original article: https://wheniwork.com/blog/how-technology-is-changing-the-home-healthcare-industry/

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