beaumont internal medicine patient portal

What is the my beaumontchart patient portal?

Our my BeaumontChart patient portal offers personalized and secure access to portions of your medical record. It enables you to use the Internet securely to manage and receive information about your health.

How can the patient portal help with patient engagement?

When patients have information about their health, they are more likely to take proactive steps to improving lifestyles, adhering to physician instructions and being healthy. The eClinicalWorks Patient Portal is a key tool to help with our patient engagement approach.

What is the eClinicalWorks patient portal?

The eClinicalWorks Patient Portal is a key tool to help with our patient engagement approach. Patients should use the portal for medication refills, messages, appointment requests, and to review their clinic notes from visits.

New Patients

We are excited you have chosen our office to take care of your medical needs. To become a New Patient please fill out our “New Patient Information Form” online. It will be sent to our New Patient Coordinator, who will contact you about becoming a New Patient.

Patient Portal

We utilize an electronic medical record which allows you, the patient, the ability to view and maintain your medical information. If you chose to sign up for our Patient Portal, you will be able to get results quicker, request appointments, and direct message the staff about relevant questions for your care.

What is internal medicine?

Internal medicine is a medical specialty that focuses on diagnosing, treating and preventing disease in adults. All internal medicine doctors complete a residency, which is an additional three years of training after medical school. They are considered primary care doctors, so they are trained to treat diseases in all body systems.

How does internal medicine help patients?

Part of prevention involves maintaining a healthy lifestyle, which means eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly, avoiding smoking and excessive alcohol consumption, maintaining a healthy weight and taking steps to reduce stress. So internal medicine doctors spend time with their patients counseling them on lifestyle improvements they can make to help prevent disease. Another part of prevention involves finding disease early while it’s easier to treat effectively. To do that, internists perform screenings and annual physical exams to look for early signs of disease.

What do internists do?

To do that, internists perform screenings and annual physical exams to look for early signs of disease. These doctors also act as advocates for their patients, referring them to specialists when needed and remaining an active part of a multidisciplinary care team.

Is an internal medicine doctor a primary care doctor?

All internal medicine doctors are primary care doctors, but not all primary care doctors are internal medicine doctors. Primary care doctors may also be family medicine doctors, pediatricians, or doctors of osteopathy. Learn more about what makes them different.

Do internal medicine doctors refer patients to specialists?

While internal medicine doctors are trained to diagnose and treat most diseases and conditions that affect adults, they do refer patients to specialists when they believe it’s in the patient’s best interest to see a doctor who spends all day, every day diagnosing and treating a specific condition .