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e-Patients Live Longer: The Complete Guide to Managing Health Care Using Technology
By: Nancy B. FinneBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
Imprint: iUniverse.com
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f you are frustrated, confused, or simply eager to find the best way to work through the complexities of our health-care system, e-Patients Live Longer has solutions for you. Author Nancy Finn has written this comprehensive how-to guide about using e-tools effectively to facilitate the best medical care possible. Filled with tips, suggestions, and guidelines, it explains how to communicate and collaborate more effectively with your healthcare providers; put together a personal health record; use e-mail and patient portals; maximize the effectiveness of your smartphone with beneficial health-care apps; oversee your safety when you are hospitalized; find the right information on the web; wade through the maze of health insurance options. Each chapter includes anecdotes that are easy to relate to, as well as a summary of important key points. A glossary of commonly used words rounds out this easy-to-use reference guide. e-Patients Live Longer has all of the answers to enable you get the best health-care deal for you and your family. Get the best health-care you can today!
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| Title of eBook: e-Patients Live Longer: The Complete Guide to Managing Health Care Using Technology | |
| Release Date: 08-11-2011 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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| Parent title | e-Patients Live Longer: The Complete... |
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| Encrypted (DRM) | Yes |
| SKU | 9781462030408 |
| File size | 4123 |
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e-Patients Live Longer: The Complete Guide to Managing Health Care Using Technology
Chapter One
Power Up and Communicate with Your Health-Care ProvidersBe what you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter, don't mind.
Bennett Cerf, Shake Well Before Using: A New Collection of Impressions and Anecdotes Mostly Humorous (1948) p. 249.
The Patient Experience
Jim has asthma. At his office visit, he tells Dr. Oakes, his primary care physician (PCP) of fifteen years, that despite faithfully taking medications prescribed, he is wheezing a lot at night and sometimes awakens short of breath. Dr. Oakes reviews Jim's electrocardiogram (EKG), finds it to be normal, and listens carefully to Jim's heart and lungs. Everything seems to be fine. While Jim waits, Dr. Oakes searches Jim's records to locate his list of medications. They talk for a few minutes about what could be causing this problem. Dr. Oakes hands Jim a new prescription, which Jim will take to the pharmacy to fill. Dr. Oakes also writes orders for a chest X-ray and a pulmonary function test and suggests that Jim return in a month to review the results of these tests and his blood work. All of this paperwork takes time away from the all too short visit, which lasts a total of fifteen minutes.
This is a typical encounter between a physician and a patient. With time restrictionsondoctorsimposedbyinsufficientprimarycarereimbursement and a paper record system that takes the doctor several minutes to search, this office visit is structured so that there is barely time for Dr. Oakes to properly examine Jim. There is never enough time to formulate an ev
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