Law, Technology, and End-of-life Planning

December 14, 2018 from 12:00-1:00 pm
In-person: Christiana Hospital, room 1100
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Advance directives (AD) were created as legal documents to help ensure that patients’ wishes are respected at the end of life. However, their actual impact on end-of-life care is less clear. Most people do not complete them, and they are often unavailable when needed. Recent technological innovations have sought to reinvent ADs. Tech start-ups offer tools to create and store digital ADs, and commercial electronic health record systems are expanding their functionality to store end-of-life wishes. I trace the history of ADs, discuss the limitations of the legal model, and describe current efforts to digitize end-of-life planning. I will focus in part on efforts at the University of Pennsylvania to develop an EHR-integrated online platform for documenting end-of-life plans.

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