November 2019: Release Notes

Happy Holidays!! Hope you had a wonderful November and are having a great December so far! Here is what we were up to last month:

New Blog Articles

• 📖 Implementation Series #1: How to Improve Clinician Engagement Through Training

New Video Content  

Last month we released quite a bit of content including 19 new handouts in Russian and Spanish.

The new content in Russian correspond to the following videos:

• Hospice: An Introduction (Russian)
• Hospice: Advanced Cancer (Russian)
• CPR: General Overview for Hospitalized Patients with Serious Illness (Russian)
• CPR: Advanced Heart Failure (Russian)
• CPR: Advanced Disease (Russian)
• CPR: Advanced Cancer (Russian)
• Goals of Care: General Overview (Russian)
• Goals of Care: Advanced Lung Disease (Russian)
• Goals of Care: Advanced Heart Failure (Russian)
• Goals of Care: Advanced Disease (Russian)
• Goals of Care: Advanced Dementia (Russian)
• Goals of Care: Advanced Cancer (Russian)
• Palliative Care: An Introduction (Russian)

The new content in Spanish correspond to the following videos:

• Caregiver Academy: Talking with Your Loved Ones About Not Driving (Spanish)
• Caregiver Academy: An Introduction to Caregiving (Spanish)
• Caregiver Academy: Thinking About Medical Decisions (Spanish)
• Caregiver Academy: Choosing a Skilled Nursing Facility (Spanish)
• Feeding Tubes (Spanish)
• Dialysis for Patients 75 and Older (Spanish)
• Choosing a Health Care Agent (Spanish)

We also released content in Spanish for patients and families who receive care in the state of California:

• Choosing a Health Care Agent Before Surgery (Spanish)
• Goals of Care: General Overview (California) (Spanish)
• Goals of Care: Advanced Lung Disease (California) (Spanish)
• Goals of Care: Advanced Liver Disease (California) (Spanish)
• Goals of Care: Advanced Kidney Disease (California) (Spanish)
• Goals of Care: Advanced Heart Failure (California) (Spanish)
• Goals of Care: Advanced Disease (California) (Spanish) 
• Goals of Care: Advance Cancer (California) (Spanish)
• Goals of Care: Advanced Dementia (California) (Spanish)

We also released 11 new videos (in Spanish and English) including one video which is about exploring advance care planning in young adults with a serious illness.

My ACP Decisions   

Last month we also continued to address some cosmetic changes as well as fixed bugs to improve the platform's overall performance.   We also enabled additional translations on the platform.