Press Releases

PALO ALTO, Calif. & PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vynca, a provider of advance care planning solutions, and Legacy Health, a locally owned nonprofit healthcare organization, have collaborated to...

Can you give me a brief overview of Mind My Heath and how it came about?

Back in April, it was former First Lady Barbara Bush. Just the past few days, Arizona Senator John McCain. Comfort care, discontinue medical treatment, and other similar phrases have been thrown...

By Ryan Van Wert, MD

PALO ALTO, Calif. & BATON ROUGE, La.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vynca, a provider of advance care planning solutions, and the Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum (Quality Forum) have established a collaboration...

By Kevin Truong San Francisco Business Times

Collaboration provides clinicians throughout the Sutter Health network access to consistent, actionable and comprehensive advance care planning tools. SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Sutter Health, a leading...

By Frank Wang, PhD

By Ryan Van Wert, MD

The National POLST Paradigm is a voluntary approach to end of life planning that emphasizes eliciting, documenting and honoring the treatment preferences of seriously ill or frail individuals using a...

H&HN

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced the winners of the Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge.

Just four hours earlier, Sallie Cutler had been sharing Mother’s Day lunch with her mom, Alyce Cheatham.

PALO ALTO, Calif. & RALEIGH, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vynca, a provider of advance care planning solutions, and The Carolinas Center, a nonprofit serving a network of hospices and palliative care...

PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vynca, a provider of sustainable advance care planning solutions, and Sutter Health, a not-for-profit health care network in Northern California, today announced a...

The Delaware Health Information Network, a statewide health information exchange, is implementing an end-of-life registry that captures medical orders that describe the scope of treatment planned for...

ALO ALTO, Calif. & DOVER, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vynca, provider of sustainable advance care planning solutions, and Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN), the nation’s first statewide health...

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote that “nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” And yet the inherent optimism of human nature causes us to avoid talking about the inescapable truth...

OHSU has taken a new step in making sure that end-of-life care wishes of OHSU patients are honored, creating a new feature where health professionals can electronically find any Physician Orders for...

My grandfather was the patriarch of his family, at the center of a tightknit Lebanese immigrant community in Toronto, Canada. Some of my warmest childhood memories are from Sundays at my...