Do You Use A Healthcare Patient Portal?
Patient portals are healthcare-related online applications that allow patients to interact and communicate with their healthcare providers, such as physicians and hospitals.
- Your whole health history is there - from you filling out a questionnaire on your family to other things like conditions and surgeries one has had in the past, pregnancies if a female, anything else
- ALL the results of any test like CT Scans, MRI, lab work.
- Your medication list is there. Name, dose, frequency
- any allergies
- vaccination and immunization record
- results of last preventive test of whatever kind
- your docs and specialist are there
- you can make and cancel appointment
- you can view your claims and their status
- have your insurance plans listed in priority
- you can get a price quote on some procedure
AND much more
This is what Medicare has paid money to health providers to establish - the Electronic Health Records (EHR) It is all secure and under several layers of sign in authentication.
Other country healthcare systems use these much more than we do at the present time.
I use one - and I like it - the only thing I don’t like is everybody seems to want their own instead of participating in just one system, there are multiple ones that the patient has to link together or transfer the info.
Do you use a patient portal?