medicinewill
Medicinewill is a term used in discussions of health informatics and medical ethics to denote a hypothetical framework for aligning medical decision-making with patient wishes and clinical guidelines. It envisions an integrated system that encodes patient preferences, legal directives, and contextual factors into actionable care plans while ensuring patient safety and evidence-based practice. The concept draws on the principles of patient autonomy, informed consent, and advance care planning, and it seeks to harmonize them with real-time clinical data and standard treatment pathways.
In practice, a medicinewill framework would collect data from advance directives, durable power of attorney arrangements,
Status and reception: Medicinewill remains a conceptual and evolving idea rather than an established standard. Several
See also: Advanced directive, Patient autonomy, Shared decision making, Clinical decision support systems.