I am currently pursuing a career in Long-Term Care and I currently work in the Home Health Care industry. During my time working in the home care industry, I have seen a growth in the demand of home health care providers and services. I found an article in the University Library that explains how home health care is a transformed way of health care delivery. Now a days hospital stays are costing an enormous amount of money. Some insurances will not cover the whole expense and it is costing Americans to go into debt due to medical bills. Health care reform has challenged the home care industry to reemerge as the primary city for delivery of health care, just as it was in the beginning of the 20th century (Donnell & Sampson 1994).
Each year billions of dollars is spent on technology that will innovate our health care system. The federal government is also planning to spend up to $29 billion in incentives to encourage hospitals and doctors’ offices to digitize health care records (Lee, 2013). This goes to show that as the years pass our health care system will be completely revolutionized and most of the health care system will be digital.
The technology that was been created for home care has made it safe for clinicians to go into peoples home and administer a variety of therapies. Also, an extensive array of disease entities that were once treated in the hospital can now be managed safety and effectively in the home. I think the reform of home health care will change health care drastically. Further development in home monitoring will allow patients to take more responsibility for their care (Donnell & Sampson 1994). A few examples of devices that may be developed are telemonitoring of vital signs and electrocardiograms, interactive video instruction, and video surveillance in the home.
Donnell & Sampson (1994) also explained more future advances in