Hospice News July 31, 2024
Understanding the risks and potential returns on technology investments will be key for hospices’ sustainability alongside rising demand, workforce and economic pressures and cybersecurity risks.
Hospices nationwide have contended with increasing costs to deliver care, with many turning to technology to spread limited staffing resources across much needed underserved regions.
The financial lift and care model considerations are only part of the challenges hospices address when ramping up technology efforts, according to Catherine Harris, home health director at UVA Health. The Virginia-based health system provides hospice, palliative, pediatric, primary and emergency care, as well as bereavement support, among other services.
“[‘It’s] about how much of our future is high tech, high touch — it’s that balance between the two,” Harris...
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