This article first appeared on Scope By Ruthann Richter The coronavirus pandemic has made us all painfully aware of our mortality. Still, in this time of uncertainty, there are some choices we can make about how we live - and die. Advance health care planning enables people to reflect on what is important to them [...]
This article first appeared on ACP Hospital By Janet Colwell More hospitals have invested in palliative care, but such services remain rare in rural areas. Small hospitals often lack sufficient resources to attract specialists and sustain full teams to provide this care for patients with serious illnesses. According to the 2019 State-by-State Report Card on Access [...]
This article first appeared in Med City News By Amanda Cavaleri I had the opportunity to learn from a visionary palliative care startup, observed an adult continued education course about dying with dignity, and toured a hospice center that felt like a home. End of life is not a subject that most of us want [...]
This article first appeared in Xconomy By Angela Shah Austin—Iris Plans is using telemedicine for an often overlooked part of health care: advanced care planning. Iris recently announced a partnership with the University of Utah Health Plans, and is now providing technology-enabled advanced care planning for about 50,000 members. Iris has created an online office [...]
This article first appeared in Vator.tv By Steven Loeb The company won first prize at Vator's Splash Health event last month Unlike like planning for retirement, a child’s education, or a wedding, planning for future healthcare has, until only recently., been pretty rare. Healthcare planning, known clinically as Advance Care Planning (ACP), has been shown [...]
Brand New Day has expanded its partnership with Iris to deliver industry-leading Advance Care Planning services to the plan’s Medicare members across its extensive provider network of over 7,300 PCPs and 22,300 specialists across 12 counties in California. Since the initial launch in May 2019, Iris has teamed with the plan’s Care Managers and Health [...]
Iris Plans to further enhance Innovista’s value-based care and population health programs AUSTIN, Texas, June 06, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Iris Plans and Innovista Health Solutions (Innovista) today announce a partnership to deliver Iris Plans’ telehealth Advance Care Planning (ACP) services to support Innovista’s physician partners, starting in Texas. “Our new partnership with Innovista highlights [...]
