Acs Research - Theorylab

Just as telemedicine is changing the ways in which primary care is delivered, much of cancer care can be delivered safely, effectively and less expensively from home. Penn Home Infusion Therapy has been providing infusion therapy at home for around two decades, but starting last year, in November 2019, just a few months before the pandemic started to complicate health care in America, Penn Medicine launched Cancer Care at Home. A joint initiative of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, the Center for Healthcare Innovation and the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Penn, the goal of the program is “to establish the home as a place where appropriate patients can receive appropriate care.” In this conversation, Dr. Justin Bekelman and Katherine Major describe the benefits of Cancer Care at Home, some of the barriers for home care that exist in America, and how the program navigated a 700% increase in patient care when the Covid-19 pandemic took hold in America. Justin Bekelman, MD, a former Americ