Powering Home Health Care: The Road from the Hospital to Home

Hospital-at-home programs are in place across hundreds of hospitals in the United States, giving patients with acute illnesses the ability to recover in the comfort of their own homes from conditions that would otherwise require an in-person hospital stay.

“In our business, we often say that what we do is simple – not easy – but simple,” said Alex Hoopes, who leads the Cardinal Health Velocare business, a unit of Cardinal Health at-Home Solutions created to help customers successfully manage the supply chain and logistics of running a hospital-at-home program. “That is, the concept of hospital-at-home is simple – people prefer being at home to recover from illness. But ensuring that a patient has everything they need for a hospital stay at home – technology, supplies, medication, food, in-home and virtual care, and more – is not simple at all.”