Mass General Brigham ACO Pilot Of Smart Hospice AI Tool Helped Optimize Palliative Care Utilization

In a six-month pilot at a Mass General Brigham (MGB) hospital, an artificial intelligence (AI) decision support tool called Smart Hospice developed by Radial helped identify 24% more hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries (total of 17 people) with repeat skilled nursing facility stays who were likely to benefit from entering hospice. These 17 beneficiaries would not otherwise have been referred for a palliative care/hospice consultation without the AI tool. Of the 17 additional referrals, as of January 2024, four were currently enrolled in hospice, seven were actively considering hospice, two had not yet discussed hospice, and four died without hospice . . .