167 - The time is now for digital advance care planning, Dr Merran Cooper, Touchstone Life Care

Published: Aug. 23, 2021, 5 p.m.

b"Innovate your advance care planning process with digital technology\\nDr Merran Cooper is the CEO and Founder of Touchstone Life Care. She has a team of world-class experts and is launching an enterprise offering that helps patients, doctors, vendors, providers and advisors in aged and palliative care.\\nTouchstone Life Care protects and communicates people's wishes for end of life care, with cloud-based easily shared, advance care plans.\\nIn this episode, Pete and Merran focus on the human rights approach to healthcare, aged care regulatory reform and the challenges behind decreasing and preventing over-medicalisation of dying and end of life.\\xa0\\nLearn about the changes and concepts in the advance care planning sector and\\xa0 importance of advance care planning. Tune in to also hear a breakdown of The Royal Commission\\u2019s recommendation, 66B. Additionally, Merran helps us to understand technological determinism and explores adopting digital technology into aged care at scale.\\nCheck out the episode and full show notes here.\\nTo see the latest information, news, events and jobs on offer at Touchstone Life Care, visit their Talking HealthTech Directory here.\\xa0\\nLoving the show?\\xa0 Leave us a review, and share it with some friends, become a THT+ Member for early release, ad-free and bonus episodes of the podcast, access to our online community forum, and free tickets to our quarterly summits.\\xa0 For more information visit here."