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Historical Perspectives on Advance Care Planning

Dr. Brian Yeaman and John Derr discuss the shift from episodic care to wellness and preventive care, the growing importance of advance care planning for the elderly, and ensuring providers have access to advance care planning documents and portable medical orders.

Why is advance care planning paramount for the elderly?

The elderly, a 50 million-plus segment of our population, needs to have a plan for their healthcare.

The shift from episodic care to wellness and preventive care.

How EHRs enable us to shift from episodic care to wellness and preventive care – a true benefit of Medical and Technology teams working together.

Health records have to follow the patient.

How EHRs enable us to shift from episodic care to wellness and preventive care – a true benefit of Medical and Technology teams working together.

 

Why interoperability is crucial to advance care planning.

John Derr shares how interoperability enables ADVault to provide all healthcare providers access to patients' wishes when seconds count and minutes.

Evolution in healthcare.

Dr. Yeaman discusses the shift in patient care to new places and delivery channels and how to share documents through the transitions.

Healthcare Industry Challenges and Barriers to ACP

Industry leaders Dr. Brian Yeaman and John Derr provide a quick overview of the frequent challenges and barriers to successful ACP including provider workflow, paper medical records, managing across the continuum of care, and having the "Talk."

The challenge of incorporating ACP into the providers' workflow.

Dr. Yeaman discusses the balance of personnel, communication, and coordination between all participants.

Continued inefficiencies of paper medical records.

The never-ending inefficiencies of paper when trying to manage a patient's length of stay (LOS) between acute and post-acute facilities.

Time is money. The economics of managing the continuum of care.

Who's going to pay for managing the patient's continuum of care.

"The conversation." Why do we wait so long to have it?

Dr. Yeaman discusses why we wait so long to have a conversation that actually puts us all at ease.

A Business Case for ACP

ADVault President and CEO Scott Brown and Dr. Brian Yeaman make the business case for the value of advance care planning for better patient experience and greater cost avoidance.

Who does digital Advance Care Planning serve?

Dr. Yeaman points to the myriad of entities digital ACP programs serve, and how they align to make a case for ACP.

The cost and toll of not implementing a digital ACP platform.

A $17 BILLION toll before covid. And a myriad of other ways it takes a toll on families, medical personnel, and the entire healthcare system.

The infinite problems with paper ACP documents.

Confusing, ambiguous, and unlikely able to be retrieved when needed. Digital advance directives are a game-changer.

Yes, there's a business case for doing what's right.

ADVault President and CEO assures us that not only is there a compassion case for ACP, there's a sustainable business case, as well.

The business case to embolden Long-term / Post-acute care facilities.

LTPAC has to have affordable access to advance care planning documents on the ADVault system. Our partnerships with eHealthExchange and CareQuality make that happen.

Why ADVault?

John Derr and Dr. Brian Yeaman share why ADVault is more than a software vendor and how the company enables person-centered longitudinal care on an interoperable platform for easy creation and access to advance care planning documents and portable medical orders.

Work with a company. Not just a software vendor.

John Derr, President and CEO of JD & Associates, discusses the benefits of working with a company vested in your success versus working with a software vendor.

Why ADVault? It enables us to get person-centric longitudinal care.

John Derr, President and CEO of JD & Associates, defines what ADVault has enabled us to do, to finally achieve person-centric longitudinal care.

Why ADVault? Because ready access is the Holy Grail.

Learn why ADVault's ability to allow providers to digitally access and share the information they need when and where they need it is the Holy Grail.

Finally, something worth doing is incredibly easy to do.

Dr. Yeaman emphasizes how ADVault has made advance care planning so worth doing and incredibly simple that it's only a matter of making it a priority.

Why AD Vault? Because interoperability is key.

Documents must be stored securely, but be seamlessly accessible at all points across the continuum of care, anywhere in the world, 24/7. Regardless of EHR platform, you can connect. And now you can for free.

How ADVault's MyDirectives Solutions Work

ADVault President and CEO provides an overview of the company's truly interoperable suite of digital Advance Care Planning (ACP) tools and how they facilitate a care team approach to ACP.

Building out the care team approach for ACP.

Dr. Yeaman discusses the management and necessary "Care Team Approach" to digital Advance Care Planning.

What good are directives if you can't find them?

AD Vault CEO Scott Brown assures users can create new advance directives or upload existing documents to MyDirectives® to store, share and access 24/7/365.

An affordable, modular, scalable suite of digital ACP solutions.

ADVault CEO Scott Brown explains how our clinician-facing tools help people create advance care planning without large implementation or deployment fees, paying for only what you use.