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Hospices Strengthening Ties to Tech, Pharmacy Companies to Support Families, Staff

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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.

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Researchers Uncover Widespread Disparities Affecting Rural Hospice Caregivers

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Rural caregivers are more vulnerable to adverse emotional health impacts than others due to their remote locations, researcher Arienne Patano, PhD student at Michigan State University, said at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Annual Assembly.

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Transitions Care Leverages Tech, New Care Models to Improve Patient Outcomes

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Illinois-based Transitions Hospice is implementing new technology and innovative care models to maximize its opportunities for value-based reimbursement, improve patient outcomes and create efficiency to reduce the burden on staff. . Complementing these services is the company’s investment in remote patient monitoring systems.

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VNHS Leveraging Tech to Optimize Hospice Patient Experience

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For example, VNHS implemented its remote patient monitoring program in 2007. It has been a huge, foundational part of how we think in that broad sense of that patient journey, that that’s really an important cultural thing that we’ve set in motion.” Seniors represented 14.7%

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Palliative Care Leaders Expect Continued Growth, Labor and Reimbursement Headwinds in 2024

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This year, we doubled the amount of patients that we had on our service and anticipate that next year we’ll do better than that. Fluhart Awareness, Workforce headwinds persist As providers seek to reach more patients and capitalize on palliative care’s growth potential, they will have to navigate around a few obstacles.

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AI, RPM Systems Turning Keys For Compassus

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and remote patient monitoring (RPM) systems can be worth the financial investment in terms of building operational efficiencies that benefit patient quality, according to Laura Templeton, executive vice president and COO of Compassus.

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Post-PHE Hospice Regulation: How Telehealth Rules Will Change

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Patients and providers have been anxious about what that could mean, with a wide variety of questions about it.” But this doesn’t mean that hospices necessarily have to stop providing telehealth services to patients on that level of care. Other aging services organizations should also monitor these developments.”

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