from being a laggard to being a leader . We want to move from a healthcare system that is paper-based , hospital-based , clinician and presence-based , to one that is patient-centric , in which remote monitoring is key and performed via cloudbased personal electronic health devices into a personal electronic health record ."
IDHLSG ’ s campaign , ‘ Stay Left , Shift Left ’, fully realises the second principle . Where ‘ Stay Left ’ is about ' keeping well people well ' in their own homes , ‘ Shift Left ’ focuses predominantly on “ moving patients from an acute care setting , to a community one , to a home setting as quickly as possible ”.
“ All this can be achieved with different technologies and devices . With automated vital signs ’ monitoring in a home , for example , we can allow early discharges post-surgery and perhaps more importantly enable a new Hospital at Home model ,” Curley explains .
McKinsey predicts that by 2025 , 25 % of care currently provided in facilities such as acute hospitals could be performed in the home , with no loss of quality or access .
The third principle , Health 4.0 , is the result of applying the principles of the
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