Relieve Family Members from Making Tough Calls
Sometimes, a patient can fall gravely ill and become no longer capable of deciding treatments for himself. It would be much easier for everybody concerned if the patient has an advanced directive to relieve family members from making tough decisions. By law, health care providers such as doctors, nurses, hospitals and other health facilities should obtain, if any, a copy of a living will and place it in the patient’s medical record.
However, filing, storing, retrieving, updating and determining if an old document is still valid are a few of the problems confronting providers. A will registry database help solve these dilemmas. The registry provides a way for providers and even family members to get up to date advance directives any hour of the day through an automated service. It eliminates the need for health care providers to maintain their own storage systems for advance directives.