By Healthcare Brew Staff
less than 3 min read
Definition:
Hospital-at-home is when patients can receive various types of care from the comfort of their homes rather than going to a hospital or facility, according to the American Hospital Association.
How do providers and payers feel about hospital-at-home?
Research has shown that at-home care can be safer, cheaper, and even more effective, yet it hasn’t become as popular in the US. In particular, Medicare and private payers would see a financial benefit since they wouldn’t have to pay as much in hospital-related costs.
Major health systems including California-based Kaiser Permanente, Boston-based Mass General Brigham, and Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic also offer at-home care programs.
Retail chain Best Buy also created a strategy that brings health tech, like heart monitors, to patients’ homes.
What sorts of at-home health tech startups are there?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this is an area of the healthcare industry that’s rife with development and innovation. Enter the health tech startups.
Withings, a French consumer electronics company, created a device called BeamO that measures body temperature and blood oxygen levels at home and sends the data to providers. Another is startup Teal Health, which unveiled an at-home cervical cancer screening device that received FDA approval in May 2025.
Another area of at-home care focuses on palliative and hospice—care that startup Guaranteed hopes to address with its end-of-life services.
And working with at-home care providers is startup Canopy, which created a wearable tech device that can help protect healthcare professionals from assault and harassment.
