Complimentary Sponsored Webinar:
Offered by MIDEO Health

Patient Safety Concerns with Living Wills & Advance Directives

Speaker: Ferdinando L. Mirarchi, DO, FAAEM, FACEP
Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET

About the Program

There are two certainties in life, the first being Death and the second being Taxes. National Healthcare Decisions Day is a National Day of Conversation where Health Systems & Employers across the nation take the day and even the week to speak about advance directives, healthcare, power of attorney documents, as well as completing those documents to be part of your estate plan, and just overall health and wellness. This year, the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils is offering a complimentary webinar presented by MIDEO Health to educate all of you on the newest state of the art Patient safety technology called MIDEO (My Informed Decision on VidEO).  On this National Day, let’s not just do advance directives.  Let’s safely create advance directives and connect clients with medical services that could take care of them throughout both Wellness and Serious illness. 

This webinar will

1. Describe 2 of the 5 most important estate planning documents
1. Define and describe the living will
2. Define and describe the healthcare power of attorney NR
2. Provide clinical examples of how documents get misinterpreted
3. Review the literature with respect to misinterpretation rates of the living will and POLST
1. Discuss wrongful prolongation of life and wrongful death and the impact on the estate
4. Review newer video technologies such as MIDEO to improve patient care and safety
1. Define how partnerships between estate planning professionals and medicine can improve overall client and patient safety.

About the Speaker

Dr. Ferdinando Mirarchi, DO, is the Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer of MIDEO Health. He previously was the Medical Director of the UPMC Hamot Emergency Department in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the Chief of Emergency Services for UPMC’s Norther Tier of Emergency Services, as well as the Chairman of the UPMC Hamot Physician Network Governance Council.

He is the Principal Investigator of the TRIAD Research Series (The Realistic Interpretation of Advance Directives). The results of his TRIAD research have been featured in the NY Times, Washington POST, Boston Herald and many more nationally syndicated outlets.

The TRIAD research has confirmed that there is a new nationwide and global patient safety risk related to confusion surrounding living wills, DNR & POLST orders. His TRIAD research has also set the foundation for the development and utilization of a state of the art, evidence-based patient safety solution called MIDEO (My Informed Decision on VidEO).

MIDEO has been structured to be both a Video Advance Directive and portable Physicians Medical Order that is prescriptive, clarifies existing documents and retrievable in seconds. Dr. Mirarchi is the author of Understanding Your Living Will; What You Need to Know before a Medical Emergency, published by Addicus Books. He is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and a fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.

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Registration Fees

Yearly Subscription
The yearly subscription offers a substantial discount to attend all of the programs during the calendar year! After completing the registration you will be emailed a discount code that can be used to register for the programs you wish to attend. (Please allow up to a week for processing.) Prices start at $280. See complete information and registration form.

Single Webinar Registration Fees

• $40 / Accredited Estate Planner® designee or Junior/Student
• $60 / member of an affiliated local estate planning council or at-large member of NAEPC
• $100 / individual non-member
• $250 / council meeting or group gathering