15 hours ago Accessing your personal medical records through a patient portal can help you be more actively involved in your own health care. Accessing your family members' health information can help you take care of them more easily. Also, patient portals offer self-service options that can eliminate phone tag with your doctor and sometimes even save a trip to the doctor's office. >> Go To The Portal
Accessing your personal medical records through a patient portal can help you be more actively involved in your own health care. Accessing your family members' health information can help you take care of them more easily. Also, patient portals offer self-service options that can eliminate phone tag with your doctor and sometimes even save a trip to the doctor's office.
The Patient Portal allows better communication with your physician's office by providing convenient 24 x 7 access from the comfort and privacy of your own home or office. Using your secure portal you will be able to: Communicate with practice, securely and efficiently. View your Personal Health Records. Review your lab results and statements.
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In our patient portal you can: Update your address, phone, e-mail address, and other patient information; Request an Appointment; Change your password; Pay your bill on-line; Ask a Billing question; Request medication refills; View a history of your previous online visits; View lab results
Patient portals have privacy and security safeguards in place to protect your health information. Always remember to protect your user name and password from others and make sure to only log on to the patient portal from a personal or secure computer.
Accessing your personal medical records through a patient portal can help you be more actively involved in your own health care. Accessing your family members' health information can help you take care of them more easily.
If you don’t have an account, please check with a member of our front desk or checkout staff at your next visit about creating an account.
If you don’t have an account, please check with a member of our front desk or checkout staff at your next visit about creating an account.
The GP has the most complete patient file in health care. Thanks to this he has all the patient’s information that is necessary to fulfil the key role in care. He also has an overview of all areas of health care, which allows him to refer the patient in a targeted manner. The GP is the most important referrer for all specialists and allied health professionals. The GP refers patients to a large variety of allied health professionals, specialists and subspecialists.77
Work, or a lack thereof, can lead to physical and/or psychological problems or disorders and is an important part of the patient’s context. It is therefore important for the GP to know the type of work the patient does and to be alert to a possible interaction between work and health. Employees who are unable to work due to illness like to see the GP play a more prominent role when it comes to seeing them through their sickness absence.53 Employees expect that their GP, just like their company doctor, will contribute to their recovery and return to work. During their absence from work, patients primarily value trust, independence and communication in their relationship with the GP . Traditionally, the GP has been a confidential medical advisor who acts independently of the interests of third parties such as an employer or insurance company. Employees are quicker (and more apt) to knock on the GPs door than that of the company doctor for work-related health problems.54 In this case, the GP also has the task of calling attention to (impending) work-related health problems and works together with the company doctor when necessary. In practice, GPs are unable to adequately carry out this task. In the interest of the patient’s care, the GP must ask himself structurally whether the patient has a problem in the area of work and health, whether information is still missing after the problem has been clarified/assessed and whether the company doctor agrees with his findings and/or the company doctor needs to approve his advice.55 If the GP has a strong indication that structurally unhealthy conditions exists at an employer’s premises, then he will contact the responsible company doctor about this.
GPs are increasingly delegating more tasks to other member of the general practice team. The practice assistant executes simple medical procedures that can be easily documented. Practice assistants and nurse practitioners ensure well-documented monitoring, support, counselling and education for specific patient groups after the GP has diagnosed the patient and answered his questions.76 This keeps general practice medical care accessible to all people, even in the face of changing and increasing health care demand. The growing health care demand is mainly the consequence of the increasing number of patients with a chronic illness. Task delegation is at the expense of personal continuity with one’s own GP. Nevertheless, the continuity of care within the general practice has, on balance, increased due to this, in particular because the patient with a frequently occurring chronic disorder such as diabetes mellitus, asthma and COPD can stay with his own general practice for his care and no longer needs to go to the hospital. The GP is ultimately responsible for the delegated care.
The GP offers the patient customised care, taking into account the patient’s gender, personal characteristics, preferences and course of life. This concerns not only the medical history but also the manner in which the patient deals with health and illness. The GP is able to help the patient in all phases of health and illness and adjust his working method to the patient’s needs.49
The GP makes an essential contribution to acute care.34 He can assess whether or not a physical or psychological disorder is of an urgent nature and can adjust his actions accordingly. Practice has proven that this takes place during evening, night and weekend duty in a good, target-oriented and cost-effective manner at the after-hours doctor’s offices.35
As the first point of contact, the GP deals with all sorts of questions, frequently occurring and rare complaints and health problems that can be acute or chronic in nature. The following figure illustrates the wide range of complaints and disorders with which the GP deals.
General practice medicine is normally the first medical point of contact in health care with free and unlimited access and provides initial assistance for all health problems regardless of the patient’s age, gender or any other characteristic.