Smartphone Savvy Advanced Directives
Few things drive an emergency room staff quite as nuts as a patient who has, yes, carefully considered his or her preferences, designated a health care decision-maker, should he or she become incapacitated, and documented all that information in an advanced directive – which is sitting in a locked safety deposit box or stashed in a bureau drawer at home.
My Health Care Wishes Lite (Google Play | Apple App Store)
A free app to safeguard your wishes
The My Health Care Wishes smartphone app gives individuals the ability to store and share important health care wishes. In an emergency, you’ll have immediate access to a PDF version of your advance directive.
An important document like this doesn’t belong tucked away in a safety deposit box or in a file cabinet somewhere. Import and store it on your smartphone so that it’s there for medical decision-making anytime, anywhere. Your information is protected because the data resides only on your smartphone, not on any server or cloud service.
My Health Care Wishes Pro (Google Play | Apple App Store)
Even more functionality
The $3.99 Pro version offers even more functionality, with unlimited storage of people profiles and documents. Store advance directives, living wills, health care powers of attorney (HCPOA, health care proxy), DNR orders, and POLSTs (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment). It is designed to revolutionize information sharing during a medical crisis so that your advance care documents can be conveyed as a PDF and delivered to a hospital or physician in minutes.
It also allows you to create a digital library containing your advance care plan and those of your spouse, parents, children, and anyone you care for. Your loved ones may be away at college, in a retirement community or nursing home, working in a different city, or under the same roof. Imagine having your wishes and those belonging to your loved ones stored in one place, just a click away. You can carry their health care wishes on your smartphone and they can carry your wishes on theirs.
