Healthcare should no longer be confined to hospitals

For generations, hospitals have been the centre of healthcare. When people become ill, they travel to a clinic or hospital. A doctor examines them. Medicines are prescribed. Treatment begins. Then patients return home, and healthcare largely waits until they come back again. It is a model that has served medicine well for more than a century. But it is also a model built around a simple assumption: Healthcare happens inside hospitals. The twenty-first century invites us to challenge that assumption.

In my previous article, I argued that healthcare should not stop caring for patients when they leave the clinic. If that is true, another question naturally follows.