Hospital at Home (HaH) + AI in Skincare from Home

Hospital at Home (HaH)

Hospitals of the Future (Wall Street Journal): A great run-through about the hospitals of the future. This article sheds some light on interesting programs developing in urban areas (Mount Sinai in NYC) and rural states (Intermountain Health Care in Utah). Advances in digital technology are giving us the ability to keep tabs on patients remotely, focus on processes & people instead of hospitals, lower costs, and reduce the risk of acquiring a disease in a hospital (1 in 25 patients is battling a disease acquired in the hospital!!)

Discussing Mount Sinai’s HaH Program (NEJM Catalyst): This article discusses the Hospital at Home (HaH) program launched by Mount Sinai in 2015. Their HaH program is not a hospice at home program, but found that patients enrolled spent 20 more days of their last 6 months at home and were less likely to be readmitted into the hospital. More details about the Mount Sinai program here.

Potential power of AI in skincare from home (Nature): This group of Stanford researchers were able to teach a computer to classify skin lesions on par with the performance of 21 board-certified dermatologists. The neural network model was fed 100,000+ images and taught to identify the two most common skin cancers (malignant carcinomas versus benign seborrheic keratoses) and the deadliest skin cancer (malignant melanomas versus benign nevi). What does this mean? That our phone cameras will soon be able to feed into these models and allow low-cost access to this vital diagnosis. Read the full paper here.