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Dementia Time-Shifting: When the Past Becomes the Present

Responsive Home Care

This isnt just failing to remember what day it is; its a total immersion in a different period of their life. […] The post Dementia Time-Shifting: When the Past Becomes the Present appeared first on Responsive Home Care.

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How to be present with a loved one at the end of life

HopeHealth

When your loved one is nearing the end of life, here are tips for what to say and do – and how to simply be present with them. The post How to be present with a loved one at the end of life appeared first on HopeHealth.

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How Hospices Can Avoid Pitfalls in AI Implementation

Hospice News

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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CMS Ramps Up Efforts to Root Out ‘Door Knocker’ Hospice Schemes

Hospice News

“[It’s] helping to enhance the education and the beneficiary to inform them to not necessarily accept these kind of open invitations or marketing schemes to get these free benefits that were reported or presented to them as being provided by Medicare in the attempt to mitigate or to compromise their Medicare Beneficiary Identification (MB)] and have (..)

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3 Reasons to Retire Pagers from Healthcare Settings

While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics.

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VITAS Seeking Large Acquisitions in Hospice CON States

Hospice News

First is we like CON states or states where there are restrictions on barriers of entry,” Witzeman said during a presentation at the UBS Healthcare Conference. “We are fairly optimistic on a pipeline of potential Covenant-size deals, but there are a few hurdles from an internal perspective that we would certainly want to keep in mind.

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How Health System Palliative Providers Can Leverage Data to Gain More Resources

Hospice News

I wanted to find that, because when you go then to a CMO or CEO and say ‘I want another physician in palliative care,’ I can then tell them, this is what you told us.

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