Hospices are increasingly leveraging technology and pharmaceutical partnerships to better address the needs of patients and families and improve financial and operational efficiencies. Hospices have leaned heavily on technology during the pandemic, turning to telehealth to remain connected to patients and their families. Hospices have also increasingly leveraged technology to build operational efficiencies during widespread […]
Mortality predictions and behavioral nudges by machine learning systems are associated with increased advance care planning utilization and reductions in high-acuity care. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recently studied the effectiveness of machine learning algorithms in identifying high-risk cancer patients nearing the last six months of life between June 17, 2019 and April 20, […]
The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. Help Texts offers a mobile service that sends advice and supportive messages via text to bereaved individuals and, as of late December, health care […]
The electronic medical record (EMR) company Careficient Inc., has acquired Net Health’s home health, hospice, home care and palliative business, as well as its revenue cycle monitoring (RCM) products. Net Health, an EMR and analytics firm, divested its HealthWyse, Hospicesoft and RCM division to refocus on its core rehab therapy and wound care lines, the […]
The bereavement care tech platform Empathy is now partnering with the software company Benekiva in an effort to streamline life insurance claims processing and help families access benefits more quickly. Benekiva’s claims automation platform is designed to simplify and accelerate that process, which on average can take as long as 13 months, according to a […]
Hospices are beginning to leverage technologies used to identify eligible patients in need to recruit and retain staff amid ongoing workforce shortages. Systems like artificial intelligence (AI), predictive analytics, and machine learning have helped providers identify eligible patients sooner in their disease process. Hospices are now applying those tools to help relieve industry-wide labor pressures. […]
The grief care tech platform Betterleave is expanding with a new hospice-partnership model that augments its employee-benefit business. The company’s platform is designed as a benefit that companies can offer their employees who have lost a loved one, a pregnancy, or a pet, including access to care coordinators, death care experts, products, and counseling services. […]
A group of health care organizations is developing interoperable systems for sharing information on social determinants of health across care settings. The Sync for Social Needs Coalition seeks to standardize the types of data that providers collect from patient screenings for social determinants and develop ways to integrate that information into electronic medical records (EMR) […]
Post-acute nurse triage company IntellaTriage has secured growth investment dollars in a round led by Pacific Lake Partners. Brentwood, Tennessee-based IntellaTriage provides after-hours triage services to hospices and home health operators, as well as health care organizations in other settings. Several other investment firms participated in the round, including Trilogy Search Partners, TTCER Partners, The […]
Health care workforce management company ShiftMed is partnering with Uber Health to offer transportation and other services as an employee benefit. Uber Health is the health care arm of Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER). Historically, they have focused on transporting patients to medical appointments, as well as making health care-related deliveries. The ShiftMed collaboration brings their […]
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