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The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed immense stress on global health care systems, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Armenia, a middle-income country in the Caucasus region, contended with the pandemic and a concurrent war, resulting in significant demand on its already strained health care infrastructure. The COVID@home program was a multi-institution, international collaboration to address critical hospital bed shortages by implementing a home-based oxygen therapy and remote monitoring program.
Remote patient monitoring with home oxygen therapy safely managed COVID-19 patients, with about 94% successfully discontinuing oxygen at home and less than 1% mortality, showing that telehealth models can effectively reduce hospital burden.
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Following the extension of the Medicare Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) waiver through September 2030, health systems and hospitals are hustling to establish and scale up in-home acute care …
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