Hospitals Lack Incentive to Provide Digital Care: ‘Financial System Is Stuck in Old-Fashioned Care’

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Hospitals are paid less for care they provide at the patient's home than for that same patient in the hospital, meaning the financial incentive to digitize is lacking. This is according to Esther Talboom-Kamp, Chair of the Executive Board of Zuyderland and Professor of Digital Home Care at the Open University. "The strange thing is that there is actually no financial incentive to deliver innovative digital care," she says in the BNR podcast BNR …