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Store personal health rcords Online
More than 70 million consumers use the internet yearly to search for health information, so using the web to store personal medical data is a natural extension of the internets capabilities . internet health service and portals are available to store your personal health history ,including prescriptions, lab test result , doctor visits , allergies, and immunizations. Web sites such as medlineplus (figure 25) provide free health information to consumers.
In minutes, you can register with a health websites by choosing a user name and password . Then , you create a record to enter your medical history. You also can store data for your emergency contacts, primary care physicians, specialists , blood type , cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and insurance plan. No matter where you are in the world , you and medical personnel can obtain records via the internet or fax machine. Some popular online health database management systems are shown in figure 26.
Figure 25 The medline plus website provides health information from the u.s national library of medicine and the national institutes of health.
Health Web sites
Medical History
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Web Address
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PersonalMD
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Practice solutions
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Records for living , inc--- personal health and living management
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Webmd
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General health
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Web Address
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Centers of disease control and prevention
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Family doctor
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Healthfinder
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Healthfinder.govgoogle.com
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Healthweb
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Medical library association consumer and patient health information section (CAPHIS)
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Medlineplus
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Pec: health and nutrition websites
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Physical activity guidelines
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Figure 26 These health websites allow you to organize your medical iformation and syore it in an online database and also obtain information about a variety of medical conditions and treatments.A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine
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