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Advance healthcare directive

Advance healthcare directive

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Sep 21, 2026

Marylyn Lee TrotterHOST
16:03
Often, this document also requires a signed, notarized acknowledgement of duties by the designated agent, confirming they understand their fiduciary responsibilities.
Eddie Montes TravisHOST
16:12
Now, what about medical decisions? We always see the Advance Health Care Directive and the HIPAA authorization.
Eddie Montes TravisHOST
16:18
I want to pause on the HIPAA document because I think a lot of people just underestimate its real-world impact.
Eddie Montes TravisHOST
16:23
It's not just bureaucratic red tape, is it?
Dan BeechGUEST
10:55
There's that enhancement that doesn't exist in any current solutions, but we added this other emergency access feature, which we can only do because of blockchain.
Dan BeechGUEST
11:10
Um, emergency access, you could think of those as medical directives, power of attorneys.
Dan BeechGUEST
11:17
Um, maybe it's a copy of your, your passport because you're traveling to another country.
Dan BeechGUEST
11:23
So documents that when they're needed, they have to be accessible right now, right away.

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Dan BeechGUEST
28:55
At the moment, the way the technology is built is to provide access to those emergency documents you know, some of them fall into the category of things that you would want, you know, like your passport, for example.
Dan BeechGUEST
29:13
That's something you would retrieve yourself.
Dan BeechGUEST
29:15
Medical directives or power of attorneys, you know, say Uncle Joe is in a coma, so you need his medical directive, but maybe you also need the power of attorney for who's taking care of his adult you know special needs child um that he normally cares for so things like that the way the system works now is um you can identify three people uh that's up to you whether it's family or maybe it's an attorney or you know somebody else whoever you wish so one of those people could be um a doctor it doesn't really solve for you know your scenario that um you're describing you know you're traveling maybe in a foreign country and if something were to happen to you you don't know who the doctor is going to be that that is treating you so we do have on the on the on a future road map developed for something like that and those kind of um access will be on a QR code, on a titanium card that you can carry with you.
Dan BeechGUEST
30:35
We're choosing titanium because it's pretty hard to destroy a titanium card.
Alexander JablokovGUEST
34:28
You might not have all the scenes precisely, but...
Alexander JablokovGUEST
34:31
You know, it's about a guy who, all right, so Living Will was about a guy who discovers, this is decades ago, discovers he has Alzheimer's in the early stages.
Alexander JablokovGUEST
34:43
So he has his computer model.
Alexander JablokovGUEST
34:47
He has essentially an AI that models his personality and will tell him to end his life when he's a burden on his wife.
Alexis NassifHOST
14:41
That process is expensive, public, and takes time that you may not have.
Natalie FrancineHOST
14:48
The Advanced Healthcare Directive names someone to make medical decisions for you if you cannot make them for yourself and documents your specific wishes about end-of-life care so those decisions are never left to chance or conflict.
Natalie FrancineHOST
15:07
The HIPAA authorization allows your named representative to access your medical information.
Natalie FrancineHOST
15:14
Without this, even your adult children may be legally barred from speaking to your doctors.

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