MyDirectives

MyDirectives.com is the first all-digital advance medical directive service, allowing consumers to create, store, update and retrieve their directives at any time from any location. MyDirectives is both a standalone website or can be a module within electronic medical record systems thereby helping hospitals to improve access to directives at the time of a health crisis.

MyDirectives uses a proprietary universal advance digital directive (uADD) that combines a living will, a medical power of attorney and various other elements (an individual’s thoughts on resuscitation, organ donation, autopsy, and qualitative questions for caregiving) designed to help doctors, nurses, caregivers and family members understand the individual’s thoughts and goals. The uADD is legal in all U.S. states and in countries around the world. The MyDirectives uADD is also the first such platform to give consumers the ability to use audio and video messages to further customize and personalize their advance care plan.

MyDirectives allows consumers to attach their Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST), Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (MOST) or other portable treatment orders to their directive.

MyDirectives is free to consumers and providers, while health insurance plans pay a nominal fee to provide their beneficiaries the ability to create their directives.

Recognition

MyDirectives is the first advance care platform to receive meaningful-use certification from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. MyDirectives is also a supporting organization of the Blue Button program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to allow downloadable personal health records.

The service has been endorsed by the Office of Clinical Ethics and Palliative Care at Baylor Health Care System (2) and its director, Dr. Robert Fine, and by former Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), a heart and lung specialist.

It was chosen by the North Texas Enterprise Center as one of the Top 10 presenting companies at MedVentures 2012. and was named Startup of the Year at the Healthcare Unbound conference in 2013. PC Magazine listed MyDirectives as one of its "Top 100 Websites of 2013" and MedCity News included MyDirectives as one of 10 startups that offer an early look at 2014 trends.

Founded by Scott Brown and Jeff Zucker, MyDirectives went live in 2012. It is a service of Dallas, Texas-based ADVault, Inc., a privately held company.