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Care domain

Palliative Care & Serious Illness Support

Palliative care connects symptom burden, pain control, serious-illness communication, goals of care, medication stewardship, caregiver support, and home-based follow-up.

Why it matters

Palliative care is needed across cancer, heart failure, chronic lung disease, kidney disease, neurologic illness, advanced HIV, and other serious conditions. WHO palliative-care guidance emphasizes relief of suffering, continuity, caregiver support, access to essential medicines, and integration with primary care.

InBasket AI keeps this care-domain pathway connected to one continuous patient record so a small care team can work from a single, trustworthy source of truth — part of expanding access to care for the next billion people.

Designed with reference to recognized global, national, and clinical standards

This care area is designed with reference to a standards ecosystem, including global guidance, national protocols, specialty-society recommendations, interoperability standards, and programme reporting requirements where applicable:

  • WHO palliative care guidance
  • WHO essential medicines guidance for symptom control
  • International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care / national palliative-care standards where adopted
  • National opioid stewardship, symptom-control, home-based care, and caregiver-support protocols
  • National Ministry of Health standard treatment guidelines, essential medicines lists, and local scope-of-practice rules for the implementation setting
  • HL7 FHIR, ICD-10, LOINC, SNOMED CT, and local terminology/coding standards where adopted

Standards sources

These sources substantiate the standards named above. Implementation-specific national protocols are selected from official national or regional authorities during deployment.

  1. World Health Organization guidelines and publications
  2. Official national Ministry of Health protocols for the implementation settingImplementation-specific: selected from the official national or regional authority during deployment.
  3. International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
  4. HL7 FHIR
  5. WHO ICD classifications
  6. LOINC
  7. SNOMED CT

Evidence sources

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