The Next Big Thing: Home Care Services
It’s a paradox facing corporate hospitals in India: How to get patients & how to free hospital beds after their surgical procedure?
Enters home care services - welcome to the future of healthcare.
It’s an emerging market in India that is likely to grow by 39.23% in 2020 - from $4.46 billion in 2018 to $6.21 billion in 2020 - as per a report by Cyber Media Research (CMR) Ltd.
Down the years, it won't be a surprise if you witness a major overhaul in the corporate hospital set-up with the clear protocol from ICU to 'homeward' shift instead of the usual general wards.
The insurance players too might come down, agreeing to extend cover for home care services.
For a nation with only 9.6 lakh registered doctors (as on 2015) for 1.2 billion people, no hospital can afford to put up a ‘hospital-beds full’ board like what theatres do on weekends at multiplexes.
The only way out is to provide hospital-like care at home so that hospitals can accommodate more needy patients.
What happens to the trust factor when unorganized sector turns up as providers for home care services?
This is a tricky issue but one can say that things are changing what with the likes of organized players like Care Institute of Health Sciences entering the home care services.
A brainchild of Dr B Soma Raju, chairman & managing director, CIHS provides a 360-degree ecosystem that can fuel the growth of home care services in India – a fact that I have tried to analyse in this article following my brief visit to their 16,000 sft facility at Road No 10, Banjara Hills.
From supplying trained manpower to hospitals to run their independent home care services, it also provides both medical and paramedics including nurses and home health aides at one’s disposal.
What’s more, this system of home care services has dual benefits for both doctors as well as tertiary care hospitals cum providers making available medical equipment and facilities at the disposal of a home care patient.
How is that?
“Compared to what one normally pays in an ICU setting, home care services is 1/3d of the cost,” explains Col M Rajgopal.
Even if one takes note of this point, then how in the world one would expect a super-specialist to visit a home care patient, leaving the cosy ambience of his clinic or hospital behind?
I realized this is another mind block that doctors face when they fail to see the big picture that community care has the potential to showcase.
If a specialist opting for home care services expects to earn money from the next day of joining, it would be foolhardy but seniors can definitely lead the way.
From 12-hour home health aide, home health nurse, ICU at home or availability of a specialist doctor on call at home, it's community care that is going to be the driver for next phase of growth in the home care sector.
Don’t believe it yet?
Then keep watching the growth trajectory of CIHS’ home care services. It was started in March-2018.
There is much more to Care Institute of Health Sciences as they are into training home care workforce such as doctors, nurses, home health aides, dialysis technicians, cardiac care technicians, pharmacy assistants and what not.
Believe it or not, CIHS’ Education wing offers 52 courses – 26 Skill based, 14 scenario based and 12 comprehensive – for doctors, nurses, home health aides and paramedics some of which are offered for marginalized youths under the aegis of National Skill Development Corporation.
In case you happen to visit CIHS centre, do take some time out to visit their state-of-the-art simulation centre to check on their high fidelity mannequin but more about it next time. I used a stethoscope to get a feel of its heartbeats!
It’s a paradox facing corporate hospitals in India: How to get patients & how to free hospital beds after their surgical procedure?
Enters home care services - welcome to the future of healthcare.
It’s an emerging market in India that is likely to grow by 39.23% in 2020 - from $4.46 billion in 2018 to $6.21 billion in 2020 - as per a report by Cyber Media Research (CMR) Ltd.
Down the years, it won't be a surprise if you witness a major overhaul in the corporate hospital set-up with the clear protocol from ICU to 'homeward' shift instead of the usual general wards.
The insurance players too might come down, agreeing to extend cover for home care services.
For a nation with only 9.6 lakh registered doctors (as on 2015) for 1.2 billion people, no hospital can afford to put up a ‘hospital-beds full’ board like what theatres do on weekends at multiplexes.
The only way out is to provide hospital-like care at home so that hospitals can accommodate more needy patients.
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| A trainer demonstrates at the simulation centre of Care Institute of Health Sciences. |
What happens to the trust factor when unorganized sector turns up as providers for home care services?
This is a tricky issue but one can say that things are changing what with the likes of organized players like Care Institute of Health Sciences entering the home care services.
A brainchild of Dr B Soma Raju, chairman & managing director, CIHS provides a 360-degree ecosystem that can fuel the growth of home care services in India – a fact that I have tried to analyse in this article following my brief visit to their 16,000 sft facility at Road No 10, Banjara Hills.
From supplying trained manpower to hospitals to run their independent home care services, it also provides both medical and paramedics including nurses and home health aides at one’s disposal.
“The most sought-after needs in home care services that we are seeing increased traction includes geriatrics, postoperative care and patient rehabilitation. When it comes to specialists, there is demand for cardiologists & internal medicine,” says Col M Rajgopal, Group COO, Care Institute of Health Sciences.
What’s more, this system of home care services has dual benefits for both doctors as well as tertiary care hospitals cum providers making available medical equipment and facilities at the disposal of a home care patient.
How is that?
“Compared to what one normally pays in an ICU setting, home care services is 1/3d of the cost,” explains Col M Rajgopal.
Even if one takes note of this point, then how in the world one would expect a super-specialist to visit a home care patient, leaving the cosy ambience of his clinic or hospital behind?
I realized this is another mind block that doctors face when they fail to see the big picture that community care has the potential to showcase.
If a specialist opting for home care services expects to earn money from the next day of joining, it would be foolhardy but seniors can definitely lead the way.
“When a specialist visits a home care patient, he is reaching out to the entire community. In the course of time, the entire community becomes his patients,” says Col M Rajgopal.
From 12-hour home health aide, home health nurse, ICU at home or availability of a specialist doctor on call at home, it's community care that is going to be the driver for next phase of growth in the home care sector.
Don’t believe it yet?
Then keep watching the growth trajectory of CIHS’ home care services. It was started in March-2018.
There is much more to Care Institute of Health Sciences as they are into training home care workforce such as doctors, nurses, home health aides, dialysis technicians, cardiac care technicians, pharmacy assistants and what not.
Believe it or not, CIHS’ Education wing offers 52 courses – 26 Skill based, 14 scenario based and 12 comprehensive – for doctors, nurses, home health aides and paramedics some of which are offered for marginalized youths under the aegis of National Skill Development Corporation.
In case you happen to visit CIHS centre, do take some time out to visit their state-of-the-art simulation centre to check on their high fidelity mannequin but more about it next time. I used a stethoscope to get a feel of its heartbeats!
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