Value-based cancer care platform Thyme Care is launching Enhanced Supportive Care, a virtual palliative care support program to assist its members and caregivers with managing physical and psychological symptoms accompanying cancer diagnosis and treatment.
The program will be led by Dr. Julia Frydman, the company's first medical director for palliative care. Frydman previously worked in the...
Hospice and palliative care provider VITAS Healthcare is launching an opioid dosing tool within its app.
The tool, designed for providers caring for patients with serious illnesses, aims to determine an opioid dosage that treats pain effectively while considering an individual patient’s end-of-life plans.
It uses data on a patient's pain level, medical condition and current pain drug regimen to...
Understanding the trajectory of someone’s death to provide appropriate end-of-life care is a complicated process that researchers from Project Big Life, a Canadian health calculation research group, hope to make easier with their Risk Evaluation for Support: Predictions for Elder-Life in the Community Tool (RESPECT).
The RESPECT calculator predicts frail people’s survival to assist caregivers in...
