Tampa General launches hospital at-home program

When our world locked down in March 2020, many of our lives changed forever. Remote medicine is one area where things continue to make dramatic turns. Hospitals were at capacity, patients searched for beds, and the sick and dying were lined up in emergency rooms worldwide, waiting for care. It is hard to go back and relive those horrific first days. But, the pandemic forced medical professionals to find ways to treat patients better. "And it's a very innovative idea," Dr. Pete Chang said. "The beginnings of these programs really started with COVID. When we were starting to look at how we can get patients home sooner safely, we did some remote patient monitoring of our COVID patients, and that's really where it started."