Redesigning Qare. reclaiming capacity.
How do we make sure hospitals have enough capacity for patients who need them most?
Healthcare is challenged and hospitals will continue to face an increasing demand. Capacity is maxed out, beds are fully occupied, staff are overburdened and patients who could be discharged and recover at home stay longer just because there is no structured way to monitor them remotely. To face this challenge, we cannot simply add more hospital capacity; we need to rethink patient care pathways.
Advancements in medicine mean people are living longer, but with longevity comes new challenges. Managing long-term chronic conditions, ensuring proper rehabilitation, and providing ongoing care require a different approach than the acute-care systems hospitals were originally designed for. Studies show that every extra day a patient spends in a hospital raises costs by 20%, adding significant pressure to an already strained system.
Technology can help create new realities and patient care pathways. With remote patient monitoring, hospitals can ensure safe transitions within the hospital as well as from hospital to home. Remote monitoring provides clinical professionals real-time insights into patients’ health condition. This will lead to fewer unnecessary readmissions, better use of hospital resources, and most importantly, better outcomes for patients.
Technology alone is not the only solution. It takes creating and delivering holistic approaches to healthcare professionals in a way that makes care more seamless, efficient, and patient-centered. This involves seamlessly integrating trend monitoring, predictive insights, and hospital workflows into a unified system that provides clinicians with a comprehensive view of their patients, enabling informed, real-time decision-making independent of the patient’s location.
At smartQare, we believe care should not stop at the walls of a department or at the hospital doors. Patients should feel safe wherever they are, when they go home, knowing they are still cared for by their healthcare team. And hospitals and healthcare professionals should have the capacity to focus on those patients who need urgent, in-person care.
The future of healthcare is about keeping patients well, anywhere, always.
How can we redesign patient care pathways deploying relevant technology to create more capacity and a stronger, more sustainable healthcare system?
Looking forward to your thoughts.
LinkedIn post: May 2025