Iris Empower, a user friendly and intuitive self-guided Advance Care Planning platform Empower is an intuitive, user-friendly platform designed by doctors and ACP experts to produce high-quality, personalized plans. It allows individuals to think through, document, and communicate their personal care preferences and what matters most to them. said Steve Wardle, Co-Founder and CEO of Iris. This platform allows individuals to control their future care and reduce family conflicts over treatment options should a medical emergency arise.
With increased regulatory focus on ACP, Empower is allowing health plans to meet their quality targets under value-based care programs, such as the CMS VBID program where advance care planning is a requirement. As the Coordinated Care Organization (CCO) that manages Medicaid for Douglas County, Oregon, Umpqua Health Alliance is leveraging the Empower platform to offer ACP to the general population of the county.
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Hopewell Health Centers names new Chief Medical Officer
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OHIO VALLEY Hopewell Health Centers, Inc. (HHC), announced on Friday that Douglas Carr, M.D. has been named as their new Chief Medical Officer.
According to a news release from Hopwell, Dr. Carr has been with the organization since 2007 working as a family practice physician in the Logan primary care office and has also served as a Regional Medical Director since 2014.
Dr. Carr graduated from Logan High School and began pursuing a career in medicine, graduating from The Ohio State University with a M.D. in Medicine in 1992 and completing family medicine residency in South Carolina before returning to the Logan area to begin practicing in 1995.