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.
HITH is gaining momentum as healthcare systems look for new ways to reduce strain on hospitals and support patient recovery at home.
The digitally enabled platform allows patients to receive care to a hospital-grade clinical standard while remaining at home.
This could be during rehabilitation from a surgical procedure, when they need palliative care, when oncological treatments are being administered, or during pregnancy and post birth (maternal health) and there many more.
HITH is an innovative and highly effective form of connected healthcare that means patients don’t have to relinquish the comforts and conveniences of home. It also encourages them to reintegrate into their communities, gives them more control over their care and helps them make informed health decisions in their own interests.
Through telehealth video conferencing, real-time remote patient monitoring and other innovative tech solutions, HITH provides an alternative to traditional hospitalisation.
Importantly, our hospital in the home software also assists hospitals with hospital to manage capacity issues more effectively and provide improved access to care for patients with critical healthcare needs.
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.
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.
What the Evidence Shows: Hospital in the Home Works
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 Cardio reported 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.
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.
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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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