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Audacious Inquiry, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Forge Alliance

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and Audacious Inquiry (Ai) recently announced a strategic partnership to improve care quality by increasing connectivity, expanding access to care, and promoting advocacy efforts across the hospice and palliative care communities.

Palliative care has become an increasingly vital service as our health care system transitions to population health management. Through tools such as Ai’s Encounter Notification Service (ENS) that alert the palliative care community of their patients’ hospitalizations as well as inform hospital care teams of existing palliative care efforts, a more seamless and effective course of treatment will be available. This collaborative effort will see the NHPCO’s expertise in the hospice and palliative care space join with Ai’s technology and strategic advisory capabilities to yield a robust set of resources and knowledge aimed to further a population health management approach to patient care.

For more than a decade, Ai has provided software solutions and strategic advisory to advance connected health care and support interoperability initiatives throughout the United States. This new partnership allows NHPCO to leverage Ai’s national deployments, enabling increased member integration with hospitals and SNFs. With access to Ai’s connectivity and software offerings, such as ENS, NHPCO members possess a network and tools for enhanced population health management, allowing them to provide more timely, comprehensive care management and support for patients and their families.

“By virtue of our partnership with Ai, NHPCO members will have access to tools that will help connect them to the rest of the health care spectrum,” says Edo Banach, JD, NHPCO president and CEO. “This increased connectivity supports population health management initiatives by improving communication and care coordination, ensuring high-quality care for patients with serious illness.”

In addition to improving connectivity and quality of care, NHPCO and Ai will use the joint resources and expertise gained through this partnership to advance advocacy efforts in the hospice and palliative care space.

“We believe deeply in the work NHPCO and its members are advancing. Through Ai’s software solutions deployed throughout the country, we are partnering to improve care coordination to better serve this community of providers and patients,” says Scott Afzal, president of Ai.

— Source: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization