An op-ed voices concerns about retail health clinics. Will patients care?
A mini clinic makes recommendations and treatment decisions based less on personal context and more on general guidelines. Mini clinics currently do not have access to patient medical records and histories, follow-up on treatments or establish a patient-physician relationship. Without these capabilities, some symptoms of greater illness might go unnoticed by these medical professionals. At mini clinics, a small number of physicians supervise a group of medical professionals who are limited in the type and scope of care they can provide to patients.
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“Will patients care?”
Will they even know! In my community, many people just assume that whoever they see in the exam room is a “doctor”–meaning med school trained allopathic physician. Most of my HMO patients who are not college graduates refer to the referring PA or NP as “Doctor ——”.
Anti-competition masquerading as concern for patients. We have seen this card before.
Patients can provide the clinic a detailed medical history in seconds.
A portable PHR (as opposed to the VERY vulnerable web based approach) assures people have their entire health history at their fingertips.
SafeKeyNet software makes any inexpensive USB drive both strongly secured and easy to access in an emergency. I know, as a patient and software developer, I designed SafeKeyNet for just that purpose.
This is 2007. No one need carry paper or pictures likes it’s 1907.
While SafeKeyNet no longer focuses exclusively on medical (protecting against identity theft is just as important), I guarantee SafeKeyNet software enables everyone to economically keep all their critical documents in their pocket or purse 24/7/365!
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