Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Muir also has served as the medical director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations’ (CMMI) high-needs Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) program. 3HC Announces New CEO 3HC Home Health & Hospice Care Inc. has tapped Jennifer Whitley as its new president and CEO.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2023

A new cancer-focused payment model demonstration from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) could create opportunities for palliative care providers. The goals of the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM), which went live on July 1, are to improve the quality and reduce the cost of cancer care with augmented care coordination.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 4, 2025

To lessen hospital nurses’ administrative burden and give them more time for meaningful patient care, Cedars-Sinai is testing an artificial intelligence (AI) mobile app called Aiva Nurse Assistant. The app allows nurses to use a mobile phone to document patient information in real-time through voice dictation.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The agency will be contacting individual hospices to request information on Medicare claims and associated documentation. Hospices may benefit from practices like internal audits to ensure their documents are consistent with their degree of compliance. Hopefully, they will have started this already. Staffing crisis not going away.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 29, 2023

Healthcare providers are adapting to new technologies such as electronic health records (EHRs), which allow them to gather these “extremely large data sets” of home health documents. Bringing all client information together gives stakeholders more visibility and insight into the care being provided.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Palliative care services including skilled conversations with patients and families to understand their goals of care, managing pain and other symptoms, support for family caregivers, care coordination, and addressing patients’ social, psychological, and spiritual sources of suffering. While the large majority of U.S.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 8, 2018

To help make this vision a reality in the Ontario home care market, AlayaCare integrated the Client Health and Related Information System (CHRIS), a web-based patient information management system designed and built by the HSSO. All the information Care Coordinators need is readily available to them, updating instantly and reducing overhead.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Asking clear questions about treatment options, discussing care goals, and addressing concerns about the future encourage shared decision-making. This ongoing communication helps align everyones expectations, creating a solid framework for care. Comfort Physical and emotional comfort remain priorities in palliative care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

For example, who’s doing advanced care planning? How’s it being documented? It’s trying to get to some community standards and commonalities around some of those sort of key processes that are related to palliative care. So advanced care planning is one. You can bill for advanced care planning.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The most common deficiencies are non-personalized care plans, missed direct-care visits, substandard visit documentation, incomplete care plans, and a lack of updates to care plans. In turn, hospice providers should focus on staying ahead of care plan requirements and recognizing areas for improvement.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Overhead costs can increase if care coordinators spend a lot of time entering information into multiple systems or working with paper. Option Care Health 3. Inaccurate home care billing documentation can generate hours of rework and, even worse, delay reimbursement. Don’t let payments get denied!

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Point-of-care clinical document solutions empower care workers by enabling remote access to the most up-to-date health information at the appropriate time during the client visit.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Point-of-care clinical document solutions empower care workers by enabling remote access to the most up-to-date health information at the appropriate time during the client visit.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Hospices and other post-acute health care providers lag behind hospitals and ambulatory settings when it comes to electronic health record (EMR) interoperability. Interoperable technology is designed in part to improve care coordination, transitions of care and administrative functions like quality reporting.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

AUGUST 18, 2017

This episode features Professor Matthew Allsop (Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK) who describes a study that outlined and applied an evaluation framework to examine how and when electronic documentation of advance care planning is occurring in end of life care services.

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AJN Off the Charts

AUGUST 25, 2022

Just because you sprinkle a document with the word ‘equity’ does not mean it exists. I did find one helpful document though, buried in the new guidelines. We are a safe space to help with care coordination and are a wealth of resources should you need confidential assistance. Five recommendations.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Having a robust e-referral program is a prime way to respond quickly and engage new clients, update services and client records directly from the source, streamline care coordination, and implement automated updates and upgrades. If referral technology is connected right in to an agency’s back-end, this becomes vastly more efficient.

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Diversity Nursing

JULY 19, 2023

It also significantly reduces travel time and patient expenses, improves care coordination, and allows Nurses to reach a larger patient population. Wearable Medical Devices Wearable medical devices offer Nurses new tools to enhance patient care and monitoring.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

APRIL 7, 2024

CoPs foster connections that facilitate the exchange of both tacit (unspoken) and explicit (formally documented) knowledge. Available from: Integrated Health and Social Care in England: Ten Years On – PubMed (nih.gov) Davidson L, Scott J, Forster N. International Journal of Care Coordination. Miller, et al.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I will tell you, as a recovering hospice admission nurse, and my husband’s also a recovering hospice admission nurse, if we had a dollar for every hour that we documented after hours in order to get our documentation in, we’d have an island in the South Pacific. For me, that’s a huge win. I just love them.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Having a robust e-referral program is a prime way to respond quickly and engage new clients, update services and client records directly from the source, streamline care coordination, and implement automated updates and upgrades. If referral technology is connected right in to an agency’s back-end, this becomes vastly more efficient.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

Another key aspect is care coordination and collaboration. Whether it’s clarifying steps, asking questions or sending updates, the ability to communicate across the care team is a fundamental feature of the solutions we’re committed to providing.

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Diversity Nursing

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Our days are jam-packed with patient care tasks, documentation, and care coordination. Because Nurses are at the forefront of every patient interaction, there are many things that we wish our patients knew and understood about how we work and handle our everyday tasks. Nursing is a busy and fast-paced profession.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

This collaboration can help optimize care delivery, expand member access to services, and improving the quality of care provided. For Medicare Advantage plans, a carve-in facilitates better care coordination and oversight. Editor’s Note: This article has been edited for length and clarity.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

It’s finally getting to a point where there is with platforms like KanTime and you have the documentation that you need for the ancillary products that are out there to work and give data insights. King: With our industry as a whole, we’ve been slow to adopt technology. From that, create efficiencies.

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CareAcademy Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As patients transition from hospitals to home care, skilled nursing, or rehabilitation, AI provides critical support in several ways: Reducing Hospital Readmissions & Enabling Proactive Care: Predictive analytics and AI-powered monitoring detect early warning signs, allowing timely intervention and reducing complications.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice is tailored to symptom control, emotional support, and care coordination during end-of-life care. When patients receive too little time in hospice, families are more likely to be dissatisfied with the end-of-life care. First, let’s consider the importance of a quality length of stay in hospice.

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Hope Hospice

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Document, document, document—having a written record of all information and communication relating to the care of your loved one will serve you well. Coordinating care can be cumbersome. If you feel uncomfortable requesting help, ask a trusted friend or family member to be your care coordinator.

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Comfort Home Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

For some, Medicare Advantage (MA) may be preferable to traditional Medicare (Parts A and B) due to lower premiums, comprehensive coverage including prescription drugs, predictable costs, care coordination, and in-network provider advantages.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Systems like AI can help hospices allocate the appropriate resources for patients changing needs as well as reduce redundancies in tasks like clinical documentation. As more technology seeps into the health care world, some hospices are leveraging new systems to improve compliance, standardize processes and anticipate patients needs.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Trials are going on looking at how AI can support documentation at the bedside. This could be bedside, clinical research, education, care coordination, or a position waiting around the corner. For example, nurses should be made aware of the application of artificial intelligence (AI).

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.

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AlayaCare

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While home healthcare has been making big strides towards care meeting the patient at their location (ie: home) on their schedule, we may need to settle for the client/patient choosing the location and the care provider picking the time. Schedule and route optimization tools will rise to meet the need for caregiver-centric scheduling.

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AlayaCare

DECEMBER 21, 2021

While home healthcare has been making big strides towards care meeting the patient at their location (ie: home) on their schedule, we may need to settle for the client/patient choosing the location and the care provider picking the time.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Jain told Hospice News that the MA program could benefit from an improved risk-adjustment model with better coding, as well as better documentation and delivery of care coordination. . “We We should never allow ourselves to enable waits and delays in people’s care,” Jain said. “In

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