Product Impact

Empowering healthcare providers to make life-sustaining treatment decisions with patients and their legal decision-makers.

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Problem & Solution

Healthcare providers across the United States have been completing the POLST, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, on paper since 1995. In more recent years, an editable PDF version was developed, but no technically advanced solutions currently exist in managing the POLST form.

Below are some of the major difficulties in managing a paper or PDF version of the POLST:

• having to remember to print, carry, sign, and return the form to clerical staff
• EMR image files instead of captured patient data
• poor retrievability in times of medical crisis
• physical misplacement and damage
• required scanning to digitize

Our solution transformed the POLST into an efficient smartphone application MVP to save providers, patients, and their loved ones time and effort when completing, modifying, and retrieving life-or-death treatment decisions.