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For Individuals or Families
Want to learn more about the benefits of Health Care Planning?
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For Health Plans
Are you a Health Plan, ACO or IDS managing a population with serious illness?
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For Physicians
Looking to learn more about how Iris can help you focus on delivering care?
Who is Iris?
We are a team of health care experts on a mission to transform the experience of serious illness by enabling people to choose the care they want and avoid the care they don’t want. Iris coordinates with health plans, physicians and families to help people set their goals for living well—and to make care plans that support those goals.
The Problem
When you or a loved one faces a serious illness, health care becomes central to your life.
In a crisis, every health care decision can have a major impact.
Our Solution
Most of us plan carefully for many kinds of decisions to make sure we get the quality and experience we want.
At Iris, we believe that your health care decisions deserve the same level of consideration as buying a home, planning a wedding or any other major life event. And we’re ready to help.
The Problem
Most people remember less than half of what their doctors tell them and often they don’t recall the conversations accurately. (Brown University School of Public Health)
That means most people make major health care decisions without fully understanding their choices.
Our Solution
Iris facilitators talk with individuals and family members about their health and their options for future care.
Our process helps people understand their choices and make informed decisions about the kind of care they want.
The Problem
66% of all U. S. personal bankruptcies are due to medical issues, including health care costs and lost work time.
530,000 American families file for bankruptcy every year due to overwhelming medical costs. (CNBC)
Our Solution
Health care is a key component of your quality of life, and you want the best quality care you can access.
Health care planning helps you get the care you want and avoid expensive treatments that you don’t want.
The Problem
Dealing with any serious illness or medical crisis is stressful for individuals and their loved ones.
Facing major medical decisions without a plan places a burden on families and raises the stress level for everyone involved.
Our Solution
Creating a plan with Iris offers peace of mind for individuals, family members and health care providers by clarifying preferences before a health crisis.
Meet Our Experts
All of our facilitators are health care experts with years of experience helping individuals and families make choices that support their goals for living well.
They facilitate discussions via phone or video to help people dealing with serious illness understand the kind of care they want to receive. Then they create a personalized health care plan and advance directives to share with family members, doctors, and everyone who need to know.
How does it work?
Personalized support and family discussion with an expert
Our health care experts facilitate conversations with you and any family members you choose to include, to talk about your medical conditions, goals for living well, decisions about future care and who you want to speak for you if you cannot speak for yourself.
Personalized health care plans and advance directives
Iris facilitators document your health care plan so that your wishes are clear to your family and doctors. Your easy-to-read plan will include your full set of official advance directives to your doctors and hospital, plus an easy-to-read summary for you and your family.
Secure, supported communication with everyone who needs to know
When you’ve approved your plan, Iris sends it to your chosen family members, doctors and hospital. Iris will also store your plan on a secure personal webpage for easy access by the people you authorize. If your preferences change, your facilitator is always available to update your plan.
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Want to learn more?
Reach us at (512) 895-9544 or email us at [email protected]