The workforce enablement company Activated Insights has acquired the online clinical education firm CareAcademy. CareAcademy in 2024 developed a hospice care curriculum designed to offer “foundational orientation training” for hospice aides, nurses, volunteers, social workers, chaplains and other spiritual care providers, as well as physicians. It covers the essentials of delivering end-of-life care in the […]
Pandemic-era regulatory flexibilities governing telehealth utilization have been extended through Jan. 30, including hospice face-to-face recertifications. The extension was included in the Continuing Appropriations Act of 2026, which funded the government through that date and ended the federal shutdown. “Recent legislation authorized an extension of many of the Medicare telehealth flexibilities that were in place […]
Hospice growth is expected to swell for Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) as the company makes deeper investments in technology and reignites its acquisition activity. The home health, hospice and personal care provider’s strategic plans have focused on improving clinical capacity and operational efficiency. The company’s strategy has long hinged on expansion in geographic areas […]
The combined company Forcura and Medalogix is rebranding as Mosai following their March 2025 merger. As part of the rebrand, the company is establishing a new brand identity and a combined suite of seven core products designed to support referral and admissions management, clinical management and streamlining care for home-based providers. Mosai is a portfolio […]
The artificial intelligence startup IO Health Technologies has raised $2 million in a seed funding round. The investment firm Nina Capital led the round. The funds will allow IO to further scale its ai-based quality management platform for home health and hospice providers. “We designed IO Health to address the single biggest lever of improvement: […]
Patients and their families have a host of unmet needs that deeper integration of technology could help address. But hospices have hesitated to make larger investments due to uncertainty around telehealth regulations. Hospices are navigating unknowns about their technology investments as telehealth waivers temporarily instituted by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) […]
WellSky is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud to develop new artificial intelligence (AI) tools for hospices and other post-acute care providers. Google Cloud is a segment of Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG), the parent company of the tech giant Google. This collaboration is the most recent development in a longstanding relationship between Google and WellSky, […]
Numerous types of artificial intelligence (AI) have gained a substantial foothold in health care, including hospices, with conversational AI among them. Conversational AI uses natural language processing and machine learning to develop virtual assistants and chatbots that can automate certain functions. Health care providers are using these systems to schedule appointments, for medication reminders, symptom […]
Technology could change how hospices and end-of-life doulas support terminally ill individuals and their families. Hospices can use technology in a variety of ways to engage with end-of-life doulas, said Shaena Whitney, director of volunteer services at Angel Hands Hospice and Palliative Care. Texas-based Angel Hands Hospice and Palliative Care is led by managing partners […]
The physician services enablement company Privia Health has leveraged technology to substantially boost its advance care planning rates. Advance care planning (ACP) has been associated with higher likelihood of hospice enrollment and lower incidence of intensive therapies, even during hospital stays, a 2019 JAMA Network study found. Privia collaborated with the advance care planning technology […]
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