Hospital in the Home
Digital healthcare technology designed to support Hospital in the Home services
CareMonitor's Hospital in the Home platform helps healthcare organisations coordinate care delivery, support clinical workflows, improve workforce efficiency and support patients beyond traditional hospital settings.
What is Hospital in the Home (HITH)?
Why it’s growing across Australia.
Hospital in the Home (HITH) enables eligible patients to receive acute or sub-acute care in their own home as an alternative to receiving that care in hospital.
The HITH Society Australasia describes HITH as acute inpatient-equivalent care delivered in a person’s place of residence or preferred non-hospital treatment location, using hospital-level clinical expertise, technology and safety and quality standards.
HITH programs can support a range of care needs, including post-surgical recovery, infection management, oncology care at home, rehabilitation, palliative and supportive care, maternal health and other acute and transitional care pathways.
Across Australia, health services are expanding care beyond traditional hospital settings as they look to manage bed capacity, improve patient flow and provide more care at home where clinically appropriate.
Digital technology can support these models by connecting patients and care teams, enabling remote monitoring and providing the workflows, communication and visibility needed to coordinate care across hospital, home and community settings.
How does CareMonitor’s HITH solution maximise clinical efficiency?
Creates, assigns and automates
pre-programmed, customisable health pathways or care protocols for patients and multidisciplinary teams to follow. Supports task allocation, automated reminders and more efficient workflow coordination across the service.
Encourages patients to play an active role in managing their health outcomes using assessment questionnaires (PREMs & PROMs), educational content, and telehealth (live video, audio, instant messaging + real time file sharing) solutions.
Unifies electronic medical records (EMR), incorporating data from both hospital and community care settings to facilitate streamlined communication between multidisciplinary healthcare professionals and patients.
Complements traditional in-patient models of care while boosting capacity in an accessible and flexible way, without limitations posed by distance for regional and remote patients.
The evidence behind Hospital in the Home
Hospital in the Home care is increasingly recognised as a safe and effective alternative to inpatient care.
Clinical studies have found that it can be just as effective as traditional hospital care.
The Medical Journal of Australia discovered that on the use of hospital in the home services (in the pre-COVID era) is associated with a lower likelihood of readmission within 28 days (2.3% vs 3.6%) and lower rates of patient deaths (0.3% vs 1.4%), compared with being an inpatient.
A 2021 study published in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that patients who experienced at-home hospital care had a 26% lower re-admission risk and a lower risk for admission into long-term care facilities.
Home is also a less stressful environment, where patients experience better sleep quality and avoid the risk of hospital-acquired infections. Carers and family can provide support without navigating visiting hours or travel.
The role of Virtual Care:
As Hospital in the Home models evolve, virtual care platforms are playing a growing role in improving outcomes and reducing hospital utilisation. A peer-reviewed study published in JMIR Cardioreported the following results for patients enrolled in a virtual heart failure program:
50% reduction in 30-day hospital readmissions
40% reduction in adverse events following discharge
Lower acute care utilisation
Improved psychological wellbeing
100% patient satisfaction
These findings highlight the potential of structured, digitally enabled care to improve patient outcomes and reduce pressure on hospital services.*
CareMonitor supports similar models by enabling clinicians to monitor patients remotely, respond to changes in real time, and help prevent avoidable hospital use. Our Hospital in the Home solution is designed to give care teams the visibility and tools they need to deliver safe, proactive care in the community.
Hospital in the Home Features
CareMonitor’s software solution includes real-time remote health monitoring of vital signs, as well as seamless integration with a range of health devices, such as blood pressure monitors, pulse oximeters, glucometers etc.
Your clinical team can allocate specific health pathways or care protocols for the patient and multidisciplinary team to follow, assign tasks, automate patient reminders, send secure in-app messages to patients and conduct virtual consultations. CareMonitor also supports workflow automation, scheduling optimisation and route optimisation to help improve workforce coordination and reduce administrative effort.
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Real time remote health monitoring of vital signs. Seamless integration with a range of health devices, such as blood pressure monitors, pulse oximeters, glucometers etc. Automatically synchronise data from compatible bluetooth enabled devices.
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The platform enables integrated, virtual care coordination, collaborate, communication, monitoring and management patient health patients by members of multidisciplinary care teams through the provision of a range of tools to securely.
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Providers are looking for ways to enhance workflow efficiency and clinical best practice, while patients are demanding more control over their healthcare experience.
That’s where CareMonitor digital care pathways come in.
Built upon modular building blocks for a highly flexible design, CareMonitor's Digital Care Pathways can be customised to underpin the model of care adopted by the healthcare provider in the management of specific and disease agnostic conditions.
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A range of tools to improve efficiency of clinical workflow such as best practice care plan templates for major disease categories which can be completely customised, ability to quickly add patient groups to watch lists, assign tasks, automate patient reminders, send secure in app messages to patients and make video consultations as required.
Workflow Management also includes capabilities designed to support workforce coordination and operational efficiency, including workflow automation, scheduling optimisation and route optimisation for community-based care programs. These capabilities help reduce administrative effort and support more efficient care delivery across hospital, home and community settings. Learn more about AI-enabled workflow capabilities -
Engage, educate and empower patients via user friendly mobile app (iOS and Android). Activate the patients to play a role in their own health.
Push health assessment questionnaires (PREMs & PROMs), provide educational content, conduct video consultations and track patient activity between visits to improve patient outcomes and deliver care that is personalised to the patient.
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Population health dashboard provides real time insights to monitor patient outcomes, identify and address care gaps within patient populations.
Advanced analytics and reporting link and aggregate data (including across multiple sites) to provide comprehensive clinical cohort analysis.
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Access real-time patient data, manage tasks efficiently, and communicate securely with your care team. This app streamlines workflows, ensuring clinicians can deliver high-quality care anytime, anywhere.
AI-assisted documentation capabilities help reduce administrative effort by supporting clinical note creation, documentation workflows and clinical efficiencies. Learn more about AI-enabled workflow capabilities.
Hospital in the Home Software
Benefits for Patients
Hospital in the Home gives patients access to hospital-level care without the disruption of being admitted. It reduces pressure on hospitals while offering a more comfortable and personal care experience.
Not having to travel to medical appointments.
Better access patients, regardless of location or physical abilities.
More control over the recovery process.
Feelings of emotional and physical support.
Less strain on partners and carers.
Ability to get home to family and cherished pets.
Reduced re-admission rates.
Lowered risk of hospital acquired infections.
Tailored Solutions for How You Deliver Care
Tell us your vision, and we will design a solution to fit seamlessly into your organisation.
CareMonitor’s approach provides organisations with the flexibility to customise their digital transformation to their unique and evolving requirements and challenges. Our flexible, scalable solutions ensure you can provide exceptional care, whenever and wherever it’s required, with a solution built around your unique vision for the future of healthcare.
Frequently Asked Questions
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CareMonitor works alongside your EMR. Your EMR remains the system of record for clinical information and supports inpatient care and documentation. CareMonitor adds the operational layer required to manage care beyond the ward, including visit coordination, mobile clinician workflows, patient monitoring, escalation and ongoing follow-up in the home.
This supports structured delivery of Hospital in the Home services without replacing the EMR, duplicating clinical systems or changing how established documentation workflows are used.
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Yes. CareMonitor can be implemented alongside an existing EMR or used as a standalone platform for coordinating and delivering Hospital in the Home services.
For organisations without an enterprise EMR, CareMonitor can provide the clinical and operational capabilities required to manage patient records, care coordination, clinician workflows and program delivery.
Learn how CareMonitor Community EMR supports organisations without an existing enterprise EMR. Click here. -
CareMonitor can be configured and deployed without the complexity typically associated with large enterprise system projects, enabling organisations to support and scale Hospital in the Home services more efficiently.
Implementation timeframes vary depending on the program and organisational requirements.
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*The studies referenced above were not conducted using the CareMonitor platform. They are included to illustrate the broader evidence base supporting Hospital in the Home models. CareMonitor supports similar approaches through its digital care coordination and remote monitoring capabilities.
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