MyDirectives, the leading provider of digital advance care planning (ACP) tools, and the National POLST Collaborative, a key advocate for patient-centered portable medical orders, today announced a ...

POLST forms are portable medical orders that document a patient’s treatment preferences during medical emergencies, such as resuscitation instructions, when they may not be able to communicate their ...

Question: I heard you speak recently and you said that “everyone over age 18 should have a will, power of attorney for finances and an Advance Health Care Directive.” I have those documents and have a ...

Automated tools for advance care planning (ACP) helped increase the number of advance directives and Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms on file. The biggest gains came from ...

States generally allow a person (principal) to appoint another person (agent) to make health care decisions, receive protected health information, or both on the principal’s behalf. In many states, ...