Hospital In The Home (HITH) Society Australasia Ltd

The HITH Society of Australasia is the peak independent organisation for HITH within Australasia. It is an independent, volunteer, not-for-profit member-based organisation. It seeks to evaluate and improve the delivery of hospital-level care in the home.

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Definition of Hospital in the Home

HITH is acute inpatient equivalent care, utilising highly skilled staff, hospital technologies, equipment, medication, and safety and quality standards, to deliver hospital-level care within a person's place of residence or preferred (non-hospital) treatment location.

See the full HITH Society HITH Definition Position Statement here.

Hospital in the Home Nursing

Recognising the high level of training, qualifications and experience required to be a HITH nurse, the Society has released a position statement regarding core competencies for HITH registered nurses.

See the full position statement here

HITH Society AGM and call for board nominations

Members are encouraged to attend the HITH Society AGM at 1715hrs on November 14 at the conclusion of day 1 of the annual scientific conference in Sydney.

Members may nominate for open board positions by completing a nomination form available here. For more information about the board and what is involved, contact administrator@hithsociety.org.au

AGM agenda will be available shortly.

HITH Online Grand Rounds

Supported by HITH Membership, this webinar is open access for all.

Join us for the Hospital in the Home (HITH) Society Australasia's Grand Rounds, a webinar series that brings together leading experts to discuss advancements in HITH care. In this session, Prof Alan Wigg and Kylie Bragg from the liver team at Flinders Medical Centre, along with Tammy Cates from Silverchain, will explore the rationale and benefits of providing regular albumin infusions to patients with cirrhosis in the comfort of their homes.

The next webinar will be held on Tuesday October 22nd 2024, 1230-1330 AEDT

1230 - 1330 Vic/NSW/ACT/Tas; 1200-1300 SA; 1130-1230 QLD;

1100-1200 NT;  930-1030 WA; 1430-1530 NZ

To register for free, please click here.

View other presentations here.

Recent Webinars (open access)

Topic: The state of the Union: Hospital in the home in the USA

Speaker: A/Prof Michael Montalto

Presentation now open access for viewing on youtube

A/Prof Montalto's Paper available here

Also:  US CMS Report on Acute Hospital Care at Home

Access Devices to Optimise Treatment in HITH - presented by NSLHD

Recording available here

How does HITH look in practice?

Some examples from others here (external links)

Here's an article recently published in the New York Times.

Here's one example of what a HITH nurse does

HITH Webinar 30 May 2023

HITH Funding 101 - Presented by Dr Michael Young

Recording available here

Deloitte Access Economics Paper

Economic analysis of Hospital in the Home (HITH) - 2011

HITH Nursing Scope of Practice - Clinical Interest Group

The Society is seeking to engage with members to form a working group exploring the diversity of HITH nursing scope of practice. This group will be open to all members and potential members, with a view to better defining HITH nursing scope of practice and aligning to NMBA standards. Overseen by Society board member Angela Ellis who has recently performed research in this area, we encourage interested members to join, participate and help shape HITH nursing.

Please click here for further information

Please click here to complete short questionnaire

HITH Medical Interest Group  

A HITH Whatsapp group has been formed for interested Medical practitioners. Contact here if you are a registered medical practitioner and Society member and would like to be added to the group.

HITH Society of Australasia announce collaboration with The Health Roundtable

In 2020/2021, the HITH Society of Australasia and the Health Roundtable have formalised a collaborative partnership. This partnership has been extended for 2023.

For more information, see our dedicated webpage.

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The HITH Society is pleased to announce we are now on facebook. Follow us to see regular updates, news and other interesting articles, information and tidbits. Click here!

The ROLE OF HITH IN COVID19

published 31-Mar-2020

This document is now freely available, however the Society would appreciate your support. To join as a member and access other information and support this work, please click here.

START ISU on HITH Tool

This tool was presented at the 2018 conference and due to demand is made available by the authors for members to download, to trial in their services and to provide feedback on it's use. Click here to go to our Online Resources page to download.