A Meaningful Signal on Palliative Care – But Not Yet a Benefit
CMS asked the right questions - the ones that will determine whether any future benefit actually reaches these patients.
MedCity Pivot Podcast: The Evolution of Palliative Care at Home
In this month's pivot podcast, I speak to the chief medical officer of San Francisco-based Vynca, an innovative company in the world of palliative care that is providing serious disease management at home.
The Power Behind Enterprise EHR Software for Large Healthcare Systems
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
Dying Without a Safety Net
America funds the crisis. It’s time to fund the care that prevents it.
The Hidden Crisis in Serious Illness Care and How We Fix It
We need a national strategy to expand access to palliative care, train the next generation of clinicians, and build the infrastructure that allows for scalable, tech-enabled, patient-centered delivery.
Guaranteed’s Funding Nears $10M on Journey to Improve End-of-Life Care
Tech-enabled hospice provider Guaranteed recently closed a $6.5 million seed round, bringing its total funding to $9.25 million. Jessica McGlory founded the startup a year ago so that patients and their families can have more dignified and holistic end-of-life care experiences than what she and her father went through.
Palliative care: An essential resource in caring for those with advanced illness
Palliative care must be the standard of care for all who have been diagnosed with progressive, advanced, and terminal illnesses. Never should we hear the phrase, “I’m sorry, there’s nothing more I can do,” when physicians encounter the failure of a curative course of therapy.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Digital health investment opportunities in 2022
Child and adolescent mental health, palliative care and clinical AI are among opportunities that investors should consider closely this year an in the future.
Intermountain Healthcare expands its home-based services through Intermountain at Home program
The program will include services like remote monitoring, virtual urgent care visits through Intermountain Connect Care, appointment video visits and physical therapy, to name a few.
Anthem will buy palliative care provider Aspire Health
Financial terms of the deal, which expected to close in the third quarter of this year, were not disclosed.
Can “pre-hospice” programs support the push towards value-based care?
More doctors, hospitals, and insurers are starting to see the value of home-based palliative care and are figuring out how to pay for it, said Kathleen Kerr, a health care consultant who researches palliative care.
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Closing the Quality-Affordability Gap in Workplace Mental Health
In an interview, Kyan Health Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer Konstantin Struck discussed how Kyan gives mid-market and enterprise employers access to premium workforce mental healthcare, at a price point that is affordable.
Hospitals come up short on palliative care programs
A report shows that the majority of hospitals fail to provide enough staff for palliative care programs to meet national guidelines.
Morning Read: Are palliative and hospice care behind steep drop in ER mortality rates?
Also, China healthcare spending has soared to $3.9 billion in overseas acquisitions across pharma, biotech and healthcare through the first half of the year and Amicus acquired Miamed.
Study suggests MDs more willing to honor end-of-life wishes for people with cancer, dementia
“There’s been a lot of focus on end-of-life care for cancer,” said Melissa Wachterman, the study’s principal author and a physician. “But most people don’t die of cancer. And the quality of end-of-life care for those dying of other conditions … is not as good.”
Death is a 100% certainty, but end-of-life planning discussions aren’t. How do we move the needle?
Healthcare is meant to be about making a better life, but giving each of us a better death is the natural end to that story.
Quality of life to the end of life: A gerontechnology tour
I had the opportunity to learn from a visionary palliative care startup, observed an adult continued education course about dying with dignity, and toured a hospice center that felt like a home.