California Health Care Foundation

This report explores opportunities for innovation, challenges, current policies, and implications for innovators. It presents a range of stakeholder perspectives on home-based medical care and highlights different approaches to showcase how different models can work within California's health ecosystem.

This publication reviews the barriers to hiring providers in this specific sector of the health care system, the role of the temporary workforce, and the emergence of technology-enabled staffing companies as a potential alternative to traditional staffing agencies. An accompanying snapshot outlines data on key characteristics of vacancies, perceived recruitment challenges, and hiring of registry and contract providers.

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a type of telehealth that involves the secure transfer of personal health and medical data to a provider for remote monitoring, care, and support. Providers, payers, and all Californians have an interest in leveraging technologies such as RPM that can assist in the management of chronic illnesses.

This paper examines the opportunities for technology-enabled innovations to improve the value and quality of the maternity care that Medi-Cal delivers.