Healthcare at Home Services

Healthcare at home is a model of providing healthcare at the doorstep of the patient depending on the level of care they require. This is basically Healthcare in out of Hospital Space is a really good and emerging opportunity. There are a considerable percent of patients who can’t visit hospital frequently leading to gap in follow up. To decrease this issue and to cope up with it Healthcare at Home came into the picture for rescue. So we here at I & D Hospital Solution Private Limited help you to find your suitable partner.

Firstly let’s look in detail that which patients are in need of Healthcare at Home.

1. RECOVERING FROM SURGERY

There are patients which are in Hospital IPD (In Patient Department) for their treatment or may be for surgery. But this is known that patient have to move from the hospital to their home. Now the patient moving in home is not completely well but is in the recovering phase so there will be consistent requirement of the care. Since the patient is in Recovering phase the patient would not prefer to travel to the hospital. So it is better for the patient to get the services at home.

2. PATIENTS HAVING CHRONIC DISEASE

The issue is most faced by the people having chronic disease as the patients having acute disease are to be treated in Hospital only. So the large portion of care of chronic patient is to be done outside the Hospital. There is a huge percentage of patients which suffer from chronic disease in India. Chronic disease are basically the long term disease in which a long term medication is to be taken such as Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma, Chronic Lung Disease and many more which demands a regular follow up to the hospital by the patient. So to reduce the hospital visit we can prefer to provide healthcare at home.

3. ELDERLY PATIENTS

Age is also a matter of concern when it comes to frequent visit. As it turns out to be hectic for elderly patients to come to hospital, stand in queue, wait for doctor timings and see a doctor. So it is not feasible for them to come to Hospital every then and now. So they would definitely prefer to have healthcare at home.

4. PATIENTS REQUIRING THERAPY

This is somehow similar to recovering patients from surgery but this also includes the patient suffering from muscle stretch or any related issue. In such cases they require Physiotherapy and it is easily understandable that if patient is in muscular pain it will be challenging for the patient to move to the hospital so it is always recommended to have a therapist visiting home.

Though it is interesting to note that Healthcare at Home in India is at very initial stage of Maturation. So it is an open business module if anyone wants to give it a try with the support of I & D hospital Solution Private Limited. It gives an opportunity to research the market and start with a profit making process. Being an entrant at such initial phase would may turn out to be a boon and end up creating a trustable brand by the patients.

Healthcare at Home Services

On another hand Healthcare at home helps doctors also to monitor the patient well in any case of any emergency. Say if the patient is in need of urgent care or is in a state of being not able to travel down to Hospital that is when healthcare at home will come into the picture that refers in clear terms that doctor will guide the designated person the patient care coordinator about the symptoms that are being shown accordingly what is the immediate treatment that is to be given for in order to stabilize the patient.

The set of steps is to be followed to decide if patient can undergo and have healthcare at home as not all the patients have this privilege. These are the basic points to be noticed and are not any actual standard to be followed.

1. Clinical Assessment
2. Care Plan
3. Financial Consent
4. Experienced & Certified Care Givers
5. Regular Digital Documentation
6. Progress Sharing with Doctors & Family
7. Educating Patients Family on Self care

Let us give a glance on each of these steps in further detailing:

1. CLINICAL ASSESSMENT

• This is the very initial stage and also the decision making step if the patient is fit for healthcare at home or not.
• It is done assess the patient thoroughly by the treating clinician at their home, hospital or may be workplace to diagnose the patient.
• The complete history of the patient is being taken at this time and all the related documents are taken for in records and to decide what is to be done further.

2. CARE PLAN

• This is the successive step of Clinical assessment as all the documents and history are being kept in mind and the care plan for restricted time period is being made.
• This includes the complete process of care in detail with Do’s & Don’ts for the care provider.

3. FINANCIAL CONSENT

• As the Clinical assessment is done and the care plan is being made it is easy to make out a rough estimate of money to be incurred so it is important to take financial Consent from the Patient.
• This financial consent must be an informed consent which means that the patient should be given complete breakup of the money to be incurred.

4. EXPERIENCED & CERTIFIED CAREGIVERS

• It implies that the chosen patient care coordinator must be a certified staff and should have appropriate experience to be able to provide proper care.

5. REGULAR DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION

• This step refers to the importance of record keeping of patients health on regular interval of time period. This is also a kind of record keeping.
• The documentation in preferred in digital form to avoid any sort of writing or paper misplacing issue. Also it is a time saving technique.

6. PROGRESS SHARING WITH FAMILY & DOCTOR

• This is the step where after care giving to the patient and monitoring of the same the progress report is shared with the treating doctor so that a result can be made out that if patient is recovering or their health is not improving.
• It is also important to share the progress report with the patient’s family as they are the one who will support further and will mentally and emotionally motivate the patient.

7. EDUCATING PATIENT’S FAMILY ON SELF CARE

• This is the step where the patient’s family is taught about the care details of how, dos & don’ts post recovery of the patient.
• Patient is also being taught about the self care to be independent for the treatment to some extent.

So post understanding all the facts related to Healthcare at home it is clear that this industry of Healthcare at Home can bring revolution in Indian Healthcare Market. Here we I & D Hospital Solution Private Limited are really enthusiastic to work with your idea of healthcare at home.