Press Releases

Physician and entrepreneur Ryan Van Wert, M.D., co-founded Palo Alto, Calif.-based advance care planning solution developer Vynca in 2013 to create tech products to guide and document advance care...

By Ryan Van Wert, MD

BOSTON, Dec. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ –Vynca, the nation’s leading advance care planning technology solution and PatientPing, the nation’s leading care collaboration platform, today announced a...

By Lyndee Yamshon from Skilled Nursing News

PALO ALTO, Calif. and TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Oct. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Vynca, the nation’s leading advance care planning technology solution and Five Wishes, the country’s most preferred advance care...

PALO ALTO, Calif. and GREENSBORO, N.C., Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — A little more than one-in-three Americans have advance directives. If your loved one became incapacitated, where would you find...

Health care providers can now electronically submit and access LaPOST forms PALO ALTO, Calif., and BATON ROUGE, La., July 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Vynca, the nation’s leading advance care planning...

Will Support Rapid Expansion of Vynca’s Advance Care Planning Solution PALO ALTO, Calif., June 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Vynca, the nation’s leading advance care planning solution, announced today that...

PALO ALTO, Calif. and BOSTON, June 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Patients facing serious, life-limiting illness benefit significantly from having conversations with their clinicians about their goals,...

PALO ALTO, Calif. and PITTSBURGH, May 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Allegheny Health Network (AHN) announced today a partnership with advance care planning technology provider, Vynca, to further assist...

COLUMBIA, S.C. and PALO ALTO, Calif., May 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Vynca, a provider of advance care planning solutions, and the South Carolina Coalition for the Care of the Seriously Ill (CSI) have...

The South Carolina Coalition for the Care of the Seriously Ill (CSI) has announced that they are teaming up with the leading provider of end-of-life document solutions to aid with respecting choices...

MATTER Blog

For years I put off completing an advance directive. Even after 30 years in the social work field, I would discuss the importance of this with individuals and their family members. I worked with...

The Triple Aim framework came about in 2007. The goal –  improve the health of a population, enhance the patient experience, and reduce per capita health care costs. The Triple Aim was meant to...

Patient Safety Issues with End-of-life Care Patient safety is too often an issue in end-of-life care. This is in part due to the high intensity care delivered towards the end of a patient’s life,...

Can you guess what the third leading cause of death in the United States is? Answer: medical errors. According to a Johns Hopkins study, over 250,000 people die annually due to a medical error. Other...

February is National Cancer Prevention Month, a designated time to shed light on the importance of promoting overall health, and utilizing preventative care to diagnose and treat cancer early on....

As faculty members are being considered for promotion, they compile their CVs, including their publications and lists of professional activities, to paint a holistic picture of their academic...

Advance care planning refers to a lifelong process that enables patients to make important decisions regarding their future health care, in the event they are no longer capable of communicating their...