Analytics, machine learning aid hospice in helping patients

Infinity Hospice is using a population health management platform to improve services to Medicare patients. The end-of-life care organization, which serves the Phoenix, Reno and Las Vegas metropolitan areas, is using guidance from the newly developed application, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to determine which patients are entering the final stages of life. Hospices seek to incorporate family members and palliative and other types of care to patients during their final days of life. But it can be difficult to determine when a patient is near the end, especially when the hospice is serving 200 patients, says Darren Bertram, CEO of Infinity Hospice. Finances also come into play.