Ochsner has joined the management team of a digital registry for Louisiana patients to choose their end-of-life care.
The Louisiana Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (LaPOST) became available in 2019. The electronic form allows advance care patients to store information in a centralized cloud that hospitals can access to meet their treatment needs.
The technology was spearheaded by the Louisiana Health Quality Forum and advance care planning technology company Vynca, based in California.
The portal, which went live in mid-July, houses documents like a living will and medical directives for dying patients. It can be electronically completed and hospitals need only sign up to record them in the database which is accessible throughout the state.
The initiative hopes to address past problems with lost paper forms, inaccuracies and wrong information. Health care professionals also believe it will alleviate emotional weight, unwanted treatment and uncertainty in dire medical situations.
A news release says Ochsner is partnering with the two entities to help patients and their families with managing the documents. Ochsner is the first health care system to join the collaboration, the release said.
The partnership will allow health care providers to electronically complete and access patients’ LaPOST documents and advance directives and enhance the state’s current advance care planning programs, which include physician orders outlining the types of medical treatment that patients with serious, life-limiting illness wish to receive as they approach the end of their life.
“Advance care plans are designed to give the patient a voice in situations where they are unable to speak for themselves,” Ochsner system chair of palliative medicine Susan Nelson said in a statement. “Ochsner recognizes digital access to advance care planning documents and LaPOST forms will ensure that our patients, as well as their families and care teams, have the information available when they need it. The partnership with Vynca and the Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum, allows us to create momentum so that one day digital access for vital advance care planning documents will be the norm.”
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