Your home is your hospital

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The key to tomorrow's health care system is not in the hospital door, but in the door to patients’ homes. The trend is not only towards earlier discharge of patients, but also towards an increased degree of treatment and monitoring of patients at home. Video conferences may enable doctors to perform ward rounds with patients in their own living rooms. Some suggest that patients should not only be admitted to hospitals, they should also be “demitted” to their homes as soon as possible.