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Technology
OSF Healthcare Tests AI Tool to Schedule Advanced Care Planning
The tool aims to predict a patient's chances of dying within 5-90 days of admission, helping care teams to decide...
Clinical Care
Most Healthcare Professionals Don't Bring Up End-of-Life Planning With Patients, Survey Finds
Nearly three-quarters of those surveyed reported that healthcare professionals never had brought up end-of-life planning.
Technology
How Can AI Be Used in Palliative Care?
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital say AI technology could be used in a hybrid platform...
Innovation
Researchers Aim to Create a Portable Artificial Lung
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is joining forces with Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University on a Defense Department-funded project to...
Telehealth
Evolent Health Acquiring Vital Decisions in $130M Deal
Edison, New Jersey-based Vital Decisions specializes in end-of-life care.
Clinical Care
A Systems Approach to Person-centered Healthcare: Lessons From End of Life
End-of-life care too often falls short of its promise to help a patient live fully?sacrificing quality of life for symptom...
Nursing
Why Home Health Care Is Suddenly Harder To Come By For Medicare Patients
Home health agencies across the country are grappling with a significant change as of Jan. 1 in how Medicare pays...
Nursing
Improve Palliative Care Delivery, Decrease Nurse Moral Distress
When nurses reported less frequent use of palliative care for their patients, they tended to experience higher levels of moral...
Clinical Care
Patients Want A 'Good Death' At Home, But Hospice Care Can Badly Strain Families
When it comes to where we die, the U.S. has reached a tipping point. Home is now the most common...
Clinical Care
End-of-Life Care Laws Were Supposed to Help New Yorkers. They Don't Always Work.
New York state has laws governing what healthcare providers are obligated to provide to patients and families facing end-of-life decisions....
Clinical Care
Geography Determines Access to Palliative Care
The study found that 90% of hospitals with palliative care are in urban areas, and 17% of rural hospitals with...
Clinical Care
Training, Policy Changes Would End Clinician Shortages in Palliative Care, CAPC Leader Says
A worsening shortage of palliative care physicians is predicted over the next 14 years. One healthcare leader suggests ways to...