Wednesday, January 14, 2009
For when you're bored with YouTube
The surgeon general (the old one that is, not Sanjay Gupta) has a cool new Web tool that could be of real use to physicians and patients. The site helps users construct a family health history which can be printed out or integrated into electronic medical records. You fill in everything you know and then email relatives to complete the missing parts (at which point they can "reindex" the tree to map their own health info, if they want). It takes only about 20 minutes and the results can be "amazingly positive," the acting SG told Yahoo news.
As in, now you can gather useful health information but avoid the embarrassment of interrupting Christmas dinner to ask Grandma for the results of her last Pap smear.
Labels: health information technology
posted by Stacey Butterfield at
11:53 AM
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1 Comments:
This sounds like a marvelous tool. When I taught health and wellness at the university, I required my students to create a family health history going back to their grandparents' generation. The goal was to help them identify their hereditary and behavioral health risks. It was an eye-opener for most.
Thanks for the blog link.
Pamela Powers
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