Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment forms: registry.

Existing law establishes the Advance Health Care Directive Registry allowing individuals to register a written advance health care directive with the Secretary of State. The information in the registry is accessible by specified entities, upon request. Under existing law, an electronic health care directive or power of attorney for health care is legally sufficient if it contains the date of its execution, is signed by either the patient or in the patient's name by another adult in the patient's presence and at the patient's direction, and is either acknowledged before a notary public or signed by at least 2 witnesses who satisfy specified requirements. Under existing law, the signatures…