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How Hospices Can Avoid Pitfalls in AI Implementation

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AI can provide capabilities that provide clinical decision insights through predictive and prescriptive machine learning modeling, it can summarize large swaths of data through Generative AI summarization, and a lot of opportunity is presenting itself in the agentic AI space. This requires careful evaluation.

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Defining Palliative Care Quality in Murky Regulatory Waters

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Additionally, patient and family satisfaction, as well as cost-effectiveness, are increasingly recognized as important indicators of high-quality palliative care. Patient data must be gathered and synthesized across several areas of health care managing an individuals care, she stated.

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2 Tailwinds Shaping Hospice Growth, Care Delivery

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The nations health care system is ripe for change when it comes to improved hospice utilization that could help curb expenditures and improve outcomes, Jackson said during Hospice News 2025 Industry Outlook webinar. The biggest opportunities for growth [are] talking about vertical integration and how we reach up into the health care system.

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Compassionate Care: 4 Ways Nurses Can Improve Patient Care

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Compassion is more than being kind to patients or checking in regularly with folks with acute illnesses. Genuine compassion requires forward-thinking and careful planning. However, pursuing specialized credentials and further education is an excellent way for healthcare professionals to improve patient care quality.

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Earlier Palliative Care Yields Higher ROI

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“We identified the contributing factors to that lower cost and, just to name a few, they were higher penetration rates and lower length of stay between admission to palliative care services.” The system includes 220 patient care locations, eight hospitals, a regional behavioral health organization and a regional home-based care agency.

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Growing Neuropalliative Care: Overcoming Barriers to Scale

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“We had family care partner representatives who told us their stories and why it’s important to include them in our research. We were able to fund 13 junior investigators to come to Denver to present research into neuropalliative care.” To increase the number of specialists in the field, Daly said.

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NHPCO: Proposed 2.8% Hospice Payment Hike Insufficient 

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is insufficient to support hospice patientscare needs, a major industry group said. The proposed rule would require physicians to be enrolled in Medicare to certify and recertify patients for hospice care,” the organization indicated. “ this year. “The

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