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5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories in 2024

Hospice News

The project is designed to learn more about the innovative, person-centered care models that can help address common challenges that these patients and their caregivers face including approaches that integrate palliative care services.

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CMMI Analysis: Palliative Care Reduces Medicare Costs, Improve Patient Satisfaction

Hospice News

This could include demos that fuse palliative care into Accountable Care Organization (ACO) or primary care programs, among others, Ellen Lukens, deputy director of CMMI said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Washington D.C. caregiver education and support), and help with shared decision-making.”

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10 Questions to ask when looking for a home care software platform

AlayaCare

How difficult is it for you to keep track of caregiver in-services and certifications? How easily does your current system make it for you to see caregiver arrival times or notify you if they were late for appointments? Do you have the ability to mass-text your caregivers from your current system?

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CMMI Working on Payment Models That Include Palliative Care

Hospice News

I’m optimistic that we see some progress and potential closure on the formalization of a community-based palliative care demo,” Nick Westfall, CEO of Chemed (NYSE: CHEM) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare, told Hospice News earlier this year. “As

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AlayaCare Launches Visit Optimizer—Automation for Vacant Visit Scheduling

AlayaCare

Manual scheduling requires time, effort, guesswork, and analytical thinking when addressing location, mileage, travel time, and proximity from the caregiver to the client. Visit Optimizer removes these time-consuming pain points within a fraction of the time. Visit Optimizer is available now as a premium integrated feature in AlayaCare Cloud.

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Building a ‘More Person-Centered Health System’: Palliative Care in Value-Based Models

Hospice News

Focus on disease-specific models Value-based models taking shape have increasingly focused on including better respite care, training and support services for caregivers, as well as improved connections to community-based palliative services, Rawal indicated.

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4 Tech solutions on how to optimize daily home care scheduling and routes

AlayaCare

Within the aging population, about 70% of individuals have severe needs for long-term services and support… Almost 80% of adults 50 and older have a desire to stay in their homes as they age, according to AARP… In fact, a national shortage of 151,000 caregivers will exist by 2030.

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