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On any given day in the United States, as few as 6 children across the nation access hospice care at the end of their lives. Most of the 53,000 children who die each year with health-related conditions spend their brief lives encountering a wide variety of clinicians from primary physicians to oncologist to neurologists, many of whom act as gate-keepers to hospice care through the referral process. One of the barriers to pediatric hospice care services as identified by the Institute of Medicine is that pediatric clinicians generally lack an understanding of and experience with hospice for children. Over the past decade, the problem of access to care for children at end of life has gone unchanged. The goal of the project is to provide clinicians with a cutting-edge mobile technology tool to assist them in understanding and experiencing pediatric hospice care in order to facilitate referrals to care. Inspired by such, engineers and healthcare professionals in HITS have devoted themselves to providing cutting-edge technological solutions to delivering care to people in need. Currently, HITS ongoing research projects include: