Thursday, December 31, 2009

Refrigerated Breast Milk Keeps Integrity for 4 Days - ABC News

Breastmilk wins again...

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Personal Medicine - Pediatrics / Children's Health News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Kids more likely than adults to catch swine flu. See our daily News.

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Personal Medicine International - FOR PHYSICIANS

Physicians does this story sound familiar? Go Mobile and Reduce Your Practice Costs by 80% with the Personal Medicine Platform.

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Check it out... Olive Oil Consumption Prevents Breast Cancer!- Nutrition News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Check it out... Olive Oil Consumption Prevents Breast Cancer!

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Personal Medicine International - Pediatrics / Children's Health News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Cool article on hemangiomas today for Parents...

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Personal Medicine - About Us

About Us

E-mail

Print

Mission

Personal Medicine’s Mission is to be the world’s trusted leader in attentive house call care.

Core Values

Personal Medicine was founded to empower individuals and reinvent the lost art of house call medicine through innovation. The members of Personal Medicine have come together because we believe in the combined potential of house calls and the Internet to have a Transformative impact on the Physician-Patient Relationship. Innovation Transforms Relationships.  These Core Values represent what motivates us at Personal Medicine.

  • We believe that the content, community, and commerce of the internet plays a central role in transforming one’s health.
  • We believe that a human being’s comfort is of utmost importance during an illness and that in home care is best for families.
  • We believe that delivering exceptional evidence based care takes time and careful consideration.
  • We believe that the care of newborns, multiples, children with chronic illness and the elderly is facilitated by in home care.
  • We believe that prevention is critical for optimal health.
  • We believe that families should have direct means of communication with their physician enabled by emerging technologies.
  • We believe that paperless practice and transparent consumer access of medical records is an essential component of best practice health care.
  • We believe that the physician-patient relationship is best managed by physicians and patient families in direct medical practice.

 

More about our Mission...

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Personal Medicine Coming to #Chicago - FOR BUSINESSES

Looking for a quick halt of your rise in healthcare costs? Combine High Deductible Plan with our house call service memberships for your employees, Chicago, all Cook County Zips now with coverage in 2010!

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Personal Medicine International - Preventive Health News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

New Mammogram recommendation Controversial...Click on the web link above to view...

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Personal Medicine International - Pediatrics / Children's Health News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Here is today's Pediatric Health News

To Your Best Health.
The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Personal Medicine Corporate Benefits #chicago - The News

10/26/09 Benefits That Strike a Chord

E-mail

Print

PDF

http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/story.jsp?storyId=276392716

In her first employee-benefits column, Carol Harnett highlights two innovative ways employers can combine imagination with good medical outcomes, decreased costs and increased employee satisfaction. Carol is a highly respected employee benefits consultant, speaker, writer and trendspotter.

By Carol Harnett

I am a Bruce Springsteen fan. Along with my friend, Pete Church, who is an HR executive, I recently ventured to the Apollo Theater to watch the taping of Elvis Costello's interview show, Spectacle, with The Boss.

On the drive home, we found ourselves discussing some of Springsteen's points about how to make linkages with audiences and relating it to our work. Springsteen says music is more than melody and lyrics. If Bruce can't place a fingerprint on our imaginations, can't connect to his listeners, then his songs are simply notes and words.

But how do HR leaders create benefit plans that strike a chord with our employees? For my first column in HREOnline TM , I searched for employers and service providers who combine imagination with good outcomes, decreased costs and increased employee satisfaction.

One innovator is Tom Emerick, who has spent the last 25 years working in benefit design for BP, Burger King and, most recently, Wal-Mart, where he was vice president of global benefit design.

In the 1980s while at BP, Emerick realized that a small percentage of employees drove a large portion of the benefit dollars. He began a multi-phase pilot that incentivized transplant candidates to go to the Mayo or Cleveland Clinics for evaluation and surgery, if deemed appropriate.

And thus was born one of the first employer-sponsored domestic medical-travel programs. Emerick was recently recognized by Healthspottr as one of the top 100 innovators in healthcare for this work.

He has gone on to evolve his approach, saying it's key for employers to first establish a tracking methodology to identify employees at high health risk and then "picking out the right place and getting the employees there."

What makes the places "right?" Emerick believes it's the medical facilities' ability to achieve "desired patient outcomes in the safest and least invasive way." Examples include Intermountain Healthcare, Geisinger Health System, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and Cancer Treatment Centers of America, he says.

Emerick says that if even one high-risk employee participates in a year, the savings can be an immediate 5-percent reduction in benefit costs, so it's probably no surprise that more employers today are actively considering medical travel as part of their health benefit plans.

Another innovator is Dr. Natalie Hodge -- a pediatrician who carries an iPhone and tablet computer in her medical bag.

Four years ago, she made the decision to view her patients and their parents as customers. In addition to their wish for easier communication, including by phone and e-mail, she responded to their desire for house calls instead of office visits.

I don't know about you, but I haven't experienced a house call since Dr. Patrick came to see me when I was around 5 years old. My vague memory before he arrived is of my mom swathing me in blankets despite having a fever. The first thing Dr. Patrick did was strip off the blankets. I don't remember much else, but I loved him ever since.

After taking care of me, my pediatrician went into our kitchen, sorted through the things I could eat and drink, and sent my dad out with a list of items to purchase.

Hodge says that's exactly how it works today. The only difference is that she uses technology to bring her office to the patient. "Babies start with a clean slate of medical records," she says, "so it's easy to create their record electronically and give the parents access to it online."

Hodge now operates an e-commerce business called Personal Medicine International Inc ., to help other physicians follow in her concierge medicine footsteps.

What makes Personal Medicine interesting to employers is that it may be used in conjunction with high-deductible health plans as an option or an add-on. Employers can seed the employee's health-savings account or health-reimbursement account with funds to offset the monthly fee or purchase the service directly for workers. Employees can opt to cover one or several of their children, a dependent older parent or the whole family.

Since physicians see their patients wherever it's convenient, parents can go to work and the doctors will meet them at their offices or the childcare centers. Employees are more productive and satisfied with their benefits. And as the H1N1 flu virus heats up, parents can avoid hospitals and the risk of cross-contamination.

For me, what is interesting about both of these approaches to employer-provided healthcare is that employees received equal -- or better -- care in a way that may be more meaningful to them -- and employers gain cost savings within the first year.

This avenue of connecting employer goals with employee desires reminds me of some thoughts from the man himself, Bruce Springsteen, as quoted in an Oct. 17, 2007 Rolling Stone interview.

"My business ... is trying to connect to you ... . You are involved in an act of the imagination together, imagining the life you want to live, the kind of country you want to live in, the kind of place you want to leave your children. What are the things that bring you ecstasy and bliss, what are the things that bring on the darkness, and what can we do together to combat those things?"

Carol Harnett is a highly respected consultant, speaker, writer and trendspotter in the fields of employee benefits, health and productivity management, health and performance innovation, and value-based health. Follow her on Twitter via @carolharnett.


October 26, 2009

Copyright 2009© LRP Publications

 

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Internet More Important than Doctors for Health Research - MarketingVOX


Click to enlarge

The average patient in the US now relies on a variety of media and resources to research disease, treatment, and general health information - and key in this mix is the internet, a category that Manhattan Research has dubbed 'e-Health.'

Perhaps more astoundingly, new data from the firm on the subject reveals that the internet surpassed physicians as the most popular health resource for the first time last year. (via MarketingCharts)

Treatment Discussion

With that shift, there is opportunity for marketers: namely brands that provide online patient education tools and resources, such as a doctor discussion guide, can become part of the treatment decision process. This is already starting to happen. Consumers who use pharmaceutical product websites report this source highly influences their healthcare decisions, according to the study, called Manhattan’s Research’s Cybercitizen Health v9.0.

In addition, after consumers view direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements, they are more likely to seek out additional information from the internet than any other source, including doctors, family and friends, and 1-800 numbers.

Social Media

Post-DTC online information sources used by consumers include general health sites, search engines, product sites, pharmaceutical company sites, social networking sites, and blogs/messageboards/chat rooms.

Social media has become a chief venue for such information gathering, in fact. More than 80 million US adults use it to create or read content on blogs, message boards, chat rooms, health social networks and communities.

The report found that the e-Health consumer market has grown significantly in the past five years, from 90 million consumers online for health in 2004 to nearly 160 million in 2009.

Physicians we must get on the bandwagon with social media. There are 160 million e health consumers. Don't be put out of business by the internet. Transparency will set you free ( from all of your overhead) We can show you how.

Happy Holidays,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

#chicago Stop the Rise of Health Insurance Costs for your Employees with Personal Medicine

Business Benefits

Print

E-mail

HR executives contemplating options for employee health benefits should consider the 10 to 15 % yearly rate of rise of  traditional full coverage plans to be a unsustainable option.  Consider the option of providing a high deductible plan for your employees at drastically lower cost and combining with a MSA contribution of up to 5,800$ a year.  Your employees may pay for all our member services with those pretax MSA dollars, providing  an attentive house call option and attractive tax savings. For information on group employer discounts for members contact sales@personalmedicineinternational.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

As mentioned in Human Resource Executive Online... (click to read article)

Chicago Employers contact us for member benefit pricing for all Cook County Employees!!

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Sleepwalking is especially common in children and usually not dangerous

The child is sleepwalking. According to some estimates, up to 17 percent of children have a sleepwalking experience between ages 4 and 12, peaking between ages 8 and 12. It is less prevalent among adults, affecting perhaps 4 percent of that population, although it can be more hazardous in that group.

Sleepwalking has been part of the human experience probably since there has been a human experience -- it was mentioned in literature before Hippocrates -- but not much is known about it even now. How it happens, yes; why, not so much.

It usually occurs during the first third of the night's sleep, and the characteristics are similar: Sleepwalkers often have open eyes, although they have a confused or glassy look. They might talk, although not clearly. Waking them will result in serious confusion, so experts say it is best not to.

"Monitor it, but let it run its course, unless they are headed out the front door," said Jodi Mindell, a clinical psychologist and professor of psychiatry at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. It can help to guide them back to bed, where they will probably fall back asleep and have no memory of what transpired after they wake up.

What you have with a sleepwalker is a "sleeping brain and an awake body," said Donna Arand, clinical director of the sleep disorder center at Kettering Medical Center, near Dayton, Ohio. "Sleepwalkers tend to do things typical of daytime activities. They have some, but generally a very diminished, awareness of their surroundings. They can negotiate routine patterns."

There is also a genetic impulse: The chances of a child's sleepwalking increase tenfold if a parent or another sibling were sleepwalkers.

Odd behaviors occasionally occur. Some -- boys in particular -- have a tendency to mistake the closet for the bathroom. There have also been instances of sleepwalkers making a sandwich and eating it, and, rarely, of adult sleepwalkers driving.

The vast majority of kids will outgrow sleepwalking, which is why doctors don't consider it a serious medical problem. "When parents come in, what I do is explain and reassure them," said Judith Owens, a pediatrician at Brown University Medical School who has been studying sleep for 15 years.

Safety can be a concern, however: tripping over something, falling down stairs, climbing out a window, wandering out the door in the middle of winter in your pajamas. So what parents of sleepwalkers need to think about, Mindell said, is putting gates at the top of stairs, locking outside doors and windows, hanging bells on bedroom doorknobs, putting away sharp objects and generally picking up.

"A Lego village in the middle of the bedroom floor won't do well," she said. Baby monitors in rooms can alert parents that a child is on the move, she said, "but they're not so good if someone is just walking quietly rather than crying."

'We have no idea'

What experts call sleep architecture plays a significant role in sleepwalking, also called somnambulism and formally known as partial arousal parasomnia.

Everyone has a definitive sleep cycle, which lasts between 90 and 120 minutes and repeats itself through the night.

The cycle is divided into REM (rapid eye movement) sleep and non-REM sleep. The non-REM part occurs first and is itself split into three stages. Sleepwalking nearly always occurs in the third stage of non-REM sleep, generally the deepest sleep of the night. The stages are marked by different brain wave activity, and in stage three, the brain waves become reallly sloooww. Then suddenly, in some people, bam! Out of bed and sleepwalking.

How come? Don't know.

"We have no idea of what's going on in the brain," said Mindell, who has been studying sleep for more than 20 years. Arand, who has been working in the field for 30 years, theorizes that the brain's chemistry may not make the complete switch from one sleep stage to another, and an "ambiguous state" of sleepwalking can result.

So why do kids grow out of it? There are some answers, particularly in the dynamics of stage three non-REM sleep. That stage closes dramatically as one ages. It can be as much as 50 percent of non-REM sleep in the very young and usually starts decreasing by about age 8 or 9. It's generally down to 25 percent by age 18, says Arand, and most people lose stage three altogether by age 40. Usually, as stage three disappears, so does sleepwalking.

Don't get too close

Adult sleepwalking can be a different animal. It can occur during what's left of stage three non-REM sleep, but it can also occur later in the sleep cycle and be more dangerous.

To understand why, let's go back to sleep architecture and the REM/non-REM divide. Different things happen in each: Non-REM sleep restores one physically, while REM sleep, which lengthens during the night, is about settling things in the brain.

In REM, said Helene Emsellem, a physician and medical director of the Center for Sleep and Wake Disorders in Chevy Chase, the brain "is rehashing the events of the day, throwing all the data points up in the air, then sorting through and interconnecting all this information, deciding what becomes memories, what fits in the learning process, and making you become the interesting, creative, well-balanced, fun person you can be." Most dreaming occurs during the REM cycle, which is where trouble can lurk.

The brain essentially paralyzes the skeletal muscles of the body during the REM cycle's sorting activity, said Emsellem. "Maybe that's to prevent dangerous things from happening" -- such as responding to perceived danger in dreams in which you are being attacked, or chased by somebody like, say, the repo guy.

But the paralysis doesn't always work. In the late 1980s, "REM sleep behavioral disorder" was reported in humans, periods "when one isn't fully paralyzed and can respond motorically [by overcoming the paralyzed skeletal muscles], without the ego saying, 'Don't do that,' " Emsellem said.

Violent episodes can result when the lack of paralysis combines with a response to suggested danger in a dream.

Which is why, said Emsellem, one should be very careful about waking an adult sleepwalker. "If they are fighting somebody off in their dream, they don't know who you are and you could get hurt," she said. "It's best to leave the room, turn the lights on, and call to the person from outside the room."

Or, said Arand, "prepare to duck, and wear a helmet."

Cures? Reducing stress and sleep deprivation, which have been identified as causes in adults.

For the young, the re-introduction of naps, some experts say, can help. If sleepwalking episodes are predictable, Owens suggests "scheduled awakenings": Wake the child up about a half-hour before the anticipated episode, make sure he's fully awake, and then let him go back to sleep. Keep it up for a month; "it seems to work in about 50 percent of the cases," she said. Different sleep environments can also be a cause -- sleepovers, for instance.

But for the young, the most reliable cure is growing up.

Nice Article from Wash Post on Sleepwalking in Kids

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Nutrition News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Here is Today's Nutrition News!

To Your Best Health,

The Team at Personal Medicine

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Monday, December 21, 2009

Personal Medicine Nutrition News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Here is today's Nutrition News

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team
" Your Doctor Comes to You"

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Friday, December 18, 2009

Testimonials

Testimonials

Print

E-mail

Member-Families Share their Stories

"Personal Pediatrics combines state-of-the-art technology and great medical skills with the kind of family oriented service and care that I remember growing up with. I wholeheartedly recommend them."
– Grant Williams

"The convenience of home visits is truly priceless. We knew we did not want to bring three children to a doctor’s office and expose them to all of the germs, as well as the ordeal of the trip itself, so the service was a godsend for us. The fact that I can pick up the phone at any time and speak directly to our physician is so reassuring. This is the future of family medicine and the best decision we could have made for our family."
– Dr. Erin Shannon-McGowan, Clinical Psychologist

“I have a hard time describing what a relief and a pleasure it has been to have this service. My children suffer from chronic sinus, ear and allergy problems, so I have a lot of questions. When I need answers, I can pick up the phone and talk to our pediatrician immediately. No gatekeepers…no waiting around. It really puts my mind at ease.”
– Anne Pokoski

“As a mother with Multiple Sclerosis I found the convenience of having an affiliate pediatrician is priceless to our family. Dr. Hodge is able to address the concerns and illnesses of our school age daughter and teenage son carefully, conscientiously and privately in the comfort of our own home.“
– Mariam Weisel

“Dr. Hodge is available to care for my son Mark at times that are convenient for me and my busy schedule as an attorney. She does visits in the home, at preschool where I can meet her and has been available to address all of our questions”
– Kim Shapiro

Here is what our member families say about Personal Medicine Affiliate Physicians...

Happy Holidays,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Personal Medicine Affiliate in Chicago Speaks Out

"With the way health care is going, I not only see physicians being proactive to evolve our model of practice as a good thing, I see it as a necessary thing. If we do not do something now to change the way we practice medicine, we will not survive. As a new attending 8 years ago, I was forced to work as an employee for a practice because of my debt and the fact that starting my own practice would have been essentially impossible. They kept making me see more and more patients while making it almost impossible to form physician-patient relationships. I woke up and realized I had become a modern day indentured servant. I think that becoming a Personal Medicine physician will allow me to become the physician I once dreamed of while improving the health care of my patients."

Dr Joseph, Family Practice, Personal Medicine Affiliate, Cook County Chicago

Posted via email from personalmedicine's posterous

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Personal Medicine- Housecall FAQ for Patients

FAQ for Patients

Print

E-mail

What is a Direct Medical Practice?

There is a growing trend of physicians directly forming financial relationships with patients in primary care for the purposes of providing health services.  While specific services and fees may vary from practice to practice, one thing is the same: these providers offer an option to deliver primary care services directly to their patients through monthly membership fees rather than insurance reimbursements. For more on benefits of direct medical practice for consumers, learn more  http://www.dpcare.org/dpc

How do I join?

It's simple, just search under patient signup on our site, and locate the affiliate in your zip code by city, state or zip.  Once you reach your affiliate's home page, you may research their credentials and practice philosophy.  Apply for membership by clicking " apply now" button on the site, and fill out your demographic and payment information.  You then land on the Patient Health Record section of your chart which is your secure medical record.  Your physician will recieve an automated email notifying him or her of your application, and will call you with final approval and for scheduling of your first visit!

What if you don't have a provider in my zip yet?

We currently have licensed doc's in NY, NJ, MI, KY and TN transitioning into house call practice.  Please contact us through the site with your zip code of interest and opt in to our email marketing list, follow us on Twitter, Linked In and Facebook and we will keep you up to date as we add affiliate members in your neighborhood.

What if I move in the middle of a membership year?

We would love to transfer your membership to another house call affiiate in your new neighborhood, otherwise you will revieve a prorated percentage of your membership fee back.

How is my medical record kept?

Our affiliates chart with a paperless medical record system which will maintain your chart in the latest cloud based secure technologies.


How do you qualify your providers?

Our affiliates apply for licensing of our platform in their specific geographies.  Our credentialing team verifies their DEA, Training, Medical license, board certification.  We also license physicians who have a special interest in providing the attentive kind of care involved in making house calls, as well as those who place a priority on maintaining an efficient, streamlined, paperless, transparent medical practice. 

What if I need a specialist? Your affiliate will provide for most aspects of your care, known as " The Medical Home Model"  He or she is specially trained in taking care of most of your heath care needs.  When you and your affiliate agree specialty care is necessary, specialty followup will be arranged as needed.

What if I need a lab test or an xray? Your affiliate will have a preferred method for testing, either by a local lab or hospital.  Many common tests will be done right in the home!

What if I need to go to the hospital? Your affiliate will maintain relationships in his prefered hospitals.  You will need to go through your regular insurance for in hospital care, the Personal Membership provides house call services only.

I have dedicated money to a Medical Savings Account this year. Can I pay with this money? Absolutely.  You may use your HSA or MSA debit card right through our site. This makes membership an affordable option, given the tax advantages.

Can my employer purchase the Personal Medicine Program as a benefit on my behalf? Absolutely.  We are working with many businesses to help them stem the unsustainable rate of rise of their employee benefit premiums.  Our membership fits well in combination with a high deductible plan.

How many house calls are included for the 1500$ Five visits a year.

I hear a lot of discussions about the Medical Home Model, what does this mean?

To understand why membership-based direct primary care facilities offer better primary solutions, it's important to first understand the difference between primary care and specialist/hospital care:

  • Primary care is the "home base" or "medical home" for your health care. Your primary care provider is responsible for your overall wellness. Any time you have a health concern, your first visit is to your primary care provider, who knows all of your medical history and can help you make the best decision about your health. With most health issues, your primary care provider can diagnose and heal the problems you're experiencing.
  • Specialist and hospital care is for serious, complex illnesses and life-threatening emergencies. If you're severely injured in an accident, for example, an ambulance takes you to the emergency room. Or, if you're diagnosed with cancer, you may need hospital care such as surgery, radiation, or other treatments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All your questions about Personal Medicine house call program answered here.

To Your Best Health,
The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Monday, December 14, 2009

Nutrition News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Here is today's Nutrition News,

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Personal Medicine Secures Malpractice Discounts for Personal Medicine Physicians

Personal Medicine International Endorses 
Keane Insurance Group for Medical Malpractice 
Brokerage Services

      St. Louis, Mo., December 9, 2009 -- Personal Medicine International, a leader in concierge-based medicine, has officially endorsed the Keane Insurance Group as its preferred vendor to provide medical malpractice brokerage services to all of PMI’s physician members.

      “We are very pleased to forge this relationship with Keane, one of the leaders in the medical malpractice industry,” says Dr. Natalie Hodge, the president and founder of Personal Medicine International.  “We believe Keane will be able to provide real value to our physicians by helping them find the best and most cost effective liability coverage for themselves and their practice.”

      Dr. Hodge spent three years developing and refining the personalized house call platform creating cloud-based technology and e-commerce platform solutions for mobile medical practice.

      She co-founded Personal Medicine International, a health care service organization whose mission is to connect primary care doctors in direct patient practice relationships to patients in attentive mobile medical practice.  The house call platform is noted as an innovation in "Customer Experience".  She is the author of The Personal Pediatrics Primer for the Progressive Parent, and was a featured speaker at the Mayo Clinic's Transform Symposium in September 2009 during a section entitled "Content, Commerce, Care and Choices" featuring the emerging Health 2.0 industry.  Dr. Hodge's special interests in pediatrics include nutrition, prevention and consumer facing Internet.

      “We are excited about the opportunity to work with Dr. Hodge and the physicians of Personal Medicine International” says Kristopher Perkins, professional liability consultant for Keane.  “We have significant respect and admiration for Dr. Hodge and her model to deliver patient care, and we expect this model will reduce risk and liability while improving patient satisfaction.  We are thrilled to be involved.”

      The Keane Insurance Group is one of the largest brokers of medical malpractice in the nation.  With more than 5,000 clients in 40 states, the firm brokers over $80 million in annual premium each year.

Posted via email from personalmedicine's posterous

Pediatrics / Children's Health News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Today's Kids Health News.

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Nutrition News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Today's Nutrition News!

From The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Sunday, December 06, 2009

TED: How the Internet enables intimacy | Personal Medicine Affiliate Network

Nice Video detailing how internet enables intimacy, we are interested in helping Physicians Develop more intimate relationships with patients enabled by internet and our web platform for house calls.

Nice.

More on house calls here...

http://personalmedicineinternational.com/pmi/

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Our Bodies, Ourselves: support this pioneer of empowered, participatory healthcare | e

Here is a nice site which explains Participatory Medicine

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Nutrition News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Today's Health and Nutrition News, From The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Friday, December 04, 2009

Nutrition News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Here is Today's Nutrition News from the Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Pediatrics / Children's Health News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Here is Today's Pediatric Health News From The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Nutrition News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Latest Nutrition News From the Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Nutrition News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Click on the link above the all the latest nutrition news from the Personal Medicine Team !! To Your Best Health

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Monday, November 30, 2009

Latest news from AAP

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Mission Personal Medicine House Call Affiliates

About Us

Print

E-mail

Mission

Personal Medicine’s Mission is to be the world’s trusted leader in attentive house call care.

Core Values

Personal Medicine was founded to empower individuals and reinvent the lost art of house call medicine through innovation. The members of Personal Medicine have come together because we believe in the combined potential of house calls and the Internet to have a Transformative impact on the Physician-Patient Relationship. Innovation Transforms Relationships.  These Core Values represent what motivates us at Personal Medicine.

  • We believe that the content, community, and commerce of the internet plays a central role in transforming one’s health.
  • We believe that a human being’s comfort is of utmost importance during an illness and that in home care is best for families.
  • We believe that delivering exceptional evidence based care takes time and careful consideration.
  • We believe that the care of newborns, multiples, children with chronic illness and the elderly is facilitated by in home care.
  • We believe that prevention is critical for optimal health.
  • We believe that families should have direct means of communication with their physician enabled by emerging technologies.
  • We believe that paperless practice and transparent consumer access of medical records is an essential component of best practice health care.
  • We believe that the physician-patient relationship is best managed by physicians and patient families in direct medical practice.

 

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Nutrition News- Pesonal Medicine Affiliate Network

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Click on the link above for today's nutrition news.

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Nutrition News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Click on the link for today's nutrition news!

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

TEDxSV » Speakers

Nice event regarding technology and it's potential to create social change. For us social change means housecalls, transparent medical records and utilizing the internet to it's fullest potential to improve one's health with your physician in the emerging model of participatory medicine.

To Your Best Health,

The Team at Personal Medicine

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Personal Medicine - Preventive Health News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Here is today's preventive health news. Just take a look at the stat's on diabetes incidence of disease and spending. Make small changes and have a healthy day today!! If you want more information about our house call affiliate program for your family this winter, Just check out the Faq page on our site!!

To Your Best Health,

The Team at Personal Medicine

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Personal Medicine Pediatrics / Children's Health News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Here is today's Pediatrics Health News!!

To Your Best Health,

The Team at Personal Medicine

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Get House calls this Winter -Personal Medicine International

Want to avoid exposures of the Flu this winter? Sign up for our newsletter on our site for weekly health updates and early signup for our physician practices.

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Personal Medicine International • View forum - Welcome Center

Welcome Center

Obama Care, Politics and Health, Health Care Reform

  • Forum
    Topics
    Posts
    Last post

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest

Want a good place to join with friends and vent about healthcare gripes, make suggestions for reform and health care innovation? We love your suggestions and feedback. Personal Medicine aims to make the impossible possible with regard to health care delivery.

To Your Best Health,

The Team at Personal Medicine

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Friday, November 27, 2009

Want Personal Medicine House calls? FAQ for Patients

FAQ for Patients

Print

E-mail

What is a Direct Medical Practice?

There is a growing trend of physicians directly forming financial relationships with patients in primary care for the purposes of providing health services.  While specific services and fees may vary from practice to practice, one thing is the same: these providers offer an option to deliver primary care services directly to their patients through monthly membership fees rather than insurance reimbursements. For more on benefits of direct medical practice for consumers, learn more  http://www.dpcare.org/dpc

How do I join?

It's simple, just search under patient signup on our site, and locate the affiliate in your zip code by city, state or zip.  Once you reach your affiliate's home page, you may research their credentials and practice philosophy.  Apply for membership by clicking " apply now" button on the site, and fill out your demographic and payment information.  You then land on the Patient Health Record section of your chart which is your secure medical record.  Your physician will recieve an automated email notifying him or her of your application, and will call you with final approval and for scheduling of your first visit!

What if you don't have a provider in my zip yet?

We currently have licensed doc's in NY, NJ, MI, KY and TN transitioning into house call practice.  Please contact us through the site with your zip code of interest and opt in to our email marketing list, follow us on Twitter, Linked In and Facebook and we will keep you up to date as we add affiliate members in your neighborhood.

What if I move in the middle of a membership year?

We would love to transfer your membership to another house call affiiate in your new neighborhood, otherwise you will revieve a prorated percentage of your membership fee back.

How is my medical record kept?

Our affiliates chart with a paperless medical record system which will maintain your chart in the latest cloud based secure technologies.


How do you qualify your providers?

Our affiliates apply for licensing of our platform in their specific geographies.  Our credentialing team verifies their DEA, Training, Medical license, board certification.  We also license physicians who have a special interest in providing the attentive kind of care involved in making house calls, as well as those who place a priority on maintaining an efficient, streamlined, paperless, transparent medical practice. 

What if I need a specialist? Your affiliate will provide for most aspects of your care, known as " The Medical Home Model"  He or she is specially trained in taking care of most of your heath care needs.  When you and your affiliate agree specialty care is necessary, specialty followup will be arranged as needed.

What if I need a lab test or an xray? Your affiliate will have a preferred method for testing, either by a local lab or hospital.  Many common tests will be done right in the home!

What if I need to go to the hospital? Your affiliate will maintain relationships in his prefered hospitals.  You will need to go through your regular insurance for in hospital care, the Personal Membership provides house call services only.

I have dedicated money to a Medical Savings Account this year. Can I pay with this money? Absolutely.  You may use your HSA or MSA debit card right through our site. This makes membership an affordable option, given the tax advantages.

Can my employer purchase the Personal Medicine Program as a benefit on my behalf? Absolutely.  We are working with many businesses to help them stem the unsustainable rate of rise of their employee benefit premiums.  Our membership fits well in combination with a high deductible plan.

How many house calls are included for the 1500$ Five visits a year.

I hear a lot of discussions about the Medical Home Model, what does this mean?

To understand why membership-based direct primary care facilities offer better primary solutions, it's important to first understand the difference between primary care and specialist/hospital care:

  • Primary care is the "home base" or "medical home" for your health care. Your primary care provider is responsible for your overall wellness. Any time you have a health concern, your first visit is to your primary care provider, who knows all of your medical history and can help you make the best decision about your health. With most health issues, your primary care provider can diagnose and heal the problems you're experiencing.
  • Specialist and hospital care is for serious, complex illnesses and life-threatening emergencies. If you're severely injured in an accident, for example, an ambulance takes you to the emergency room. Or, if you're diagnosed with cancer, you may need hospital care such as surgery, radiation, or other treatments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAQ page for Personal Medicine Membership

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Preventive Health News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Here is Today's Preventive Health News

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Thursday, November 26, 2009

e-Patient Dave on Transparency of Health Consumers Medical Data

Savvy Health Consumers, Watch this talk by e-patient dave regarding health data transparency. Our affiliate program offers transparent PHR access for our members and paperless practice environment for physicians!

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Nutrition News

Check out this website I found at personalmedicineinternational.com

Here is today's Nutrition News.

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Surescripts

The Personal Medicine Team is excite to add surescripts electronic prescribing for our affiliate physician and patient members, nice addition to fully eliminate the paper from your workflow!!

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Monday, November 23, 2009

Personal Medicine - Mission and Core Values

About Us

Print

E-mail

Mission

Personal Medicine’s Mission is to be the world’s trusted leader in attentive house call care.

Core Values

Personal Medicine was founded to empower individuals and reinvent the lost art of house call medicine through innovation. The members of Personal Medicine have come together because we believe in the combined potential of house calls and the Internet to have a Transformative impact on the Physician-Patient Relationship. Innovation Transforms Relationships.  These Core Values represent what motivates us at Personal Medicine.

  • We believe that the content, community, and commerce of the internet plays a central role in transforming one’s health.
  • We believe that a human being’s comfort is of utmost importance during an illness and that in home care is best for families.
  • We believe that delivering exceptional evidence based care takes time and careful consideration.
  • We believe that the care of newborns, multiples, children with chronic illness and the elderly is facilitated by in home care.
  • We believe that prevention is critical for optimal health.
  • We believe that families should have direct means of communication with their physician enabled by emerging technologies.
  • We believe that paperless practice and transparent consumer access of medical records is an essential component of best practice health care.
  • We believe that the physician-patient relationship is best managed by physicians and patient families in direct medical practice.

 

Here is our Mission...

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

Sunday, November 22, 2009

FAQ for Physicians

FAQ for Physicians

Print

E-mail


How do I apply for a license in my zip codes of interest?

Our signup process is simple, just go to physician signup button, click and fill out the physician pre-credential form with all of your credentialing  information, zip codes of interest and opt-in to our licensing agreement.  It’s that simple. There are no hefty initial software licensing fees.  

How many physicians will be granted licensing in my territories of interest?

Our licensing agreement provides exclusive licensure for use of the platform for the first 24 months.  So applying for your zips of interest now effectively excludes your competition from providing this innovative service line.

How do you credential physicians?

Our Medical Director reviews the pre-credentialing form and gets the process started.  Our team will provide you with passwords to our physician portal for you to upload PDF copies of your DEA, State License, Board Certification information for our credentialing team to approve you.  

How long does credentialing take?

Several weeks.

How long does it take for my physician site to go live?

When your credentialing is complete, our developers will have your site ready for your final approval and go live.

How do I know if my patients will sign on for this new program?

After your credentialing is complete, our team will implement a market research survey to validate direct medical practice is viable in your market.  The first step is getting feedback from your patients and then we move into the sales phase of the transition process.

How do I tell my patients I am transitioning into cash practice?

Our marketing team  will take your existing patient base through a carefully crafted  process that tactfully  converts a maximal number into your new cash practice utilizing your existing relationships, through surveys, email marketing, web demos, sales presentations, informative webinars, all provided through our site.

Can other patients besides my current practice join?

After our internal marketing process is complete and we pass your patient‘s “priority signup date“, we turn to systematically marketing to families in your geographic radius.

What if we already have a practice website?

No problem, our licensing agreement enables you to post the Personal Medicine House Call Service line logo and branding on your site, which will link directly through to your physician house call marketing site for automated patient signup through our ecommerce platform.  Our programmers are happy to add this functionality to your site with access to your FTP site.

What if I don’t have a website?

No worries, your  Personal Medicine physician marketing site is all you will need for adding new patients to your practice.  

What about my hospital priveleges?

Your admitting priveleges are up to you.  We do recommend streamlining hospitals if you are on staff at multiple locations.  If you prefer completely outpatient practice, that’s ok too.  

What about call?

We recommend implementing two physicians within a practice at a time, so that you will have coverage for each other for travel.   Remember, with a practice with ten-fold less patients, you can expect ten-fold less phone calls.  We find that with the relationships nurtured in the Personal Medicine Model, lends itself to less night time calls from patients than in the traditional large practice model.

How many house calls can I expect to make a day?

In the full practice model with 300 patient panel, you can expect 6-7 house calls a day, half that for a 150 patient panel.

How large of a radius should I choose?

Our implementation team can help you in choosing the best radius to cover, depending on traffic, density of population, population demographics,  generally a five to ten mile radius  makes for minimal drive time between houses.  

How do I learn the technology?

We will help you with training on your emr, through user tutorials, you tube tutorials, and support center, this is all part of your transitional process and timeline you will follow through your portal site.

What if I need a loan to start practice?

We have partnerships with investors who have made funding innovative primary care practices a priority and we will work with you on accessing capital if you need it.  Our investors have put together a 36 month credit line especially for Personal Medicine practices.  Each loan gets funded on the physician’s personal credit and financial picture.

What about my malpractice?

Personal Medicine has teamed up with Keane Insurance Group to provide malpractice for our affiliates.   Several National carriers feel that physicians practicing in our model, meeting our credentialing process, who attentively care for patients in their homes translates to lower risk of a malpractice suit.  There is a point within our conversion process for you to upload your current med mal carrier’s dec page for our insurance team to get you a new quote.   You are certainly welcome to keep you existing carrier if you prefer.

What kinds of physicians can use the Personal Medicine Platform?

Our Platform is for use by primary care doctors, internists, family physicians, pediatricians, med-peds.   If you have a specialty within  primary care,  you may still have a successful Personal Medicine direct medical practice, particularly within the NICU and ICU niche.  

What is a direct medical practice?

Direct Medical Practice is a Descriptive term used for describing physician practices, usually in primary care in the Medical Home Model, which cultivate direct financial relationships with patients, rather than our currently dominant third party payor contracts.  

How does the Platform compare to the overhead of typical primary care office practices?

Our Platform reduces overhead by 80% compared to median primary care office overhead. ( 2007, Modern Healthcare)

Why should I allow my patients to have access to their medical record?

There is a massive demand amongst health consumers to have access to their medical record through a PHR.   Consumer internet health business are growing in popularity and transparency of the medical record is essential for any primary care physician wishing to remain competitive in practice.  Also transparency of the medical record is responsible for some of the dramatic cost reduction found in the Personal Medicine Model.

Doesn’t this restrict what I can chart in the medical record?

There is a way to restrict viewing of aspects of the record, by setting “ permissions” within the EMR.  For example, a mother of a patient in which you suspect “ Munchausen’s by Proxy” you may wish to document and hide permission from the patient.  This is your legal right.


What about lab and x ray?

We recommend bringing clia waived testing with you, as they are convenient, simple and easy to transport.   If you retain ownership of your office, you may use those facilities as you wish.   The EMR portion of the platform has interface with quest and lab core as well.  

What should I tell my partners?

We find the transition to utilizing the Personal Medicine Platform enhances the market share of an existing practice, adding significant revenues without adding overhead.  Over time we envision that as the house call  service line grows, additional doctors in the practice will transition to house calls as well, and you will hire in new physicians and nurse practitioners to support the office.   This differentiates your brand and puts your practice leaps and bounds over your competition.  

What if I only want to practice part time?

Personal Medicine’s overhead structure is perfect for part time practice.  If you only want to maintain a half panel of 150 patients, you will still have take home pay that rivals the medial take home pay in primary care.

What is SAAS, anyway?

SAAS or “ Software as a Service” is an established  business model in the tech industry.   It refers to using software services on a monthly membership rate rather than traditional health IT licensing models.   Also utilizing enterprize cloud computing services, with outsourced hosting, security, backups,  it frees physicians from hefty IT costs associated with puchasing and maintaining servers, firewalls, backups, and hosting.  Utilizing this technology is part of the drastic overhead reduction of practice, compared with traditional Health IT. 

How secure are the servers that house the medical record data?

The hosting environment maintains high level of encryption and firewall.  It is as safe as the banking industry standards.  Also, our hosting environment incorporates third party IT consultants advice as well as security audits into their data and security strategy. 

How does social media within the Personal Medicine Platform help grow my practice?

The old methods of practice building  word of mouth, print marketing materials,  TV are slow costly ways to grow a cash practice.  They are intrusive and ineffective.  The latest  social networks present the opportunity for exponential growth of your practice, minimizing your risk in the transition.   There is deep emotion and value that house calls brings to patients and our marketing platform seeks to intimately tell the personal story of each physician, patient, employer, through video, community, blogs, forums, in a permission based manner that makes your patient sale when the patient is ready to buy.   Without social media, one customer tells one person at a time about your practice.  With the Personal Medicine Platform, one person tells 500 people at a time!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Physicians your questions about mobile practice platform answered here!!

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous

FAQ for Physicians

FAQ for Physicians

Print

E-mail


How do I apply for a license in my zip codes of interest?

Our signup process is simple, just go to physician signup button, click and fill out the physician pre-credential form with all of your credentialing  information, zip codes of interest and opt-in to our licensing agreement.  It’s that simple. There are no hefty initial software licensing fees.  

How many physicians will be granted licensing in my territories of interest?

Our licensing agreement provides exclusive licensure for use of the platform for the first 24 months.  So applying for your zips of interest now effectively excludes your competition from providing this innovative service line.

How do you credential physicians?

Our Medical Director reviews the pre-credentialing form and gets the process started.  Our team will provide you with passwords to our physician portal for you to upload PDF copies of your DEA, State License, Board Certification information for our credentialing team to approve you.  

How long does credentialing take?

Several weeks.

How long does it take for my physician site to go live?

When your credentialing is complete, our developers will have your site ready for your final approval and go live.

How do I know if my patients will sign on for this new program?

After your credentialing is complete, our team will implement a market research survey to validate direct medical practice is viable in your market.  The first step is getting feedback from your patients and then we move into the sales phase of the transition process.

How do I tell my patients I am transitioning into cash practice?

Our marketing team  will take your existing patient base through a carefully crafted  process that tactfully  converts a maximal number into your new cash practice utilizing your existing relationships, through surveys, email marketing, web demos, sales presentations, informative webinars, all provided through our site.

Can other patients besides my current practice join?

After our internal marketing process is complete and we pass your patient‘s “priority signup date“, we turn to systematically marketing to families in your geographic radius.

What if we already have a practice website?

No problem, our licensing agreement enables you to post the Personal Medicine House Call Service line logo and branding on your site, which will link directly through to your physician house call marketing site for automated patient signup through our ecommerce platform.  Our programmers are happy to add this functionality to your site with access to your FTP site.

What if I don’t have a website?

No worries, your  Personal Medicine physician marketing site is all you will need for adding new patients to your practice.  

What about my hospital priveleges?

Your admitting priveleges are up to you.  We do recommend streamlining hospitals if you are on staff at multiple locations.  If you prefer completely outpatient practice, that’s ok too.  

What about call?

We recommend implementing two physicians within a practice at a time, so that you will have coverage for each other for travel.   Remember, with a practice with ten-fold less patients, you can expect ten-fold less phone calls.  We find that with the relationships nurtured in the Personal Medicine Model, lends itself to less night time calls from patients than in the traditional large practice model.

How many house calls can I expect to make a day?

In the full practice model with 300 patient panel, you can expect 6-7 house calls a day, half that for a 150 patient panel.

How large of a radius should I choose?

Our implementation team can help you in choosing the best radius to cover, depending on traffic, density of population, population demographics,  generally a five to ten mile radius  makes for minimal drive time between houses.  

How do I learn the technology?

We will help you with training on your emr, through user tutorials, you tube tutorials, and support center, this is all part of your transitional process and timeline you will follow through your portal site.

What if I need a loan to start practice?

We have partnerships with investors who have made funding innovative primary care practices a priority and we will work with you on accessing capital if you need it.  Our investors have put together a 36 month credit line especially for Personal Medicine practices.  Each loan gets funded on the physician’s personal credit and financial picture.

What about my malpractice?

Personal Medicine has teamed up with Keane Insurance Group to provide malpractice for our affiliates.   Several National carriers feel that physicians practicing in our model, meeting our credentialing process, who attentively care for patients in their homes translates to lower risk of a malpractice suit.  There is a point within our conversion process for you to upload your current med mal carrier’s dec page for our insurance team to get you a new quote.   You are certainly welcome to keep you existing carrier if you prefer.

What kinds of physicians can use the Personal Medicine Platform?

Our Platform is for use by primary care doctors, internists, family physicians, pediatricians, med-peds.   If you have a specialty within  primary care,  you may still have a successful Personal Medicine direct medical practice, particularly within the NICU and ICU niche.  

What is a direct medical practice?

Direct Medical Practice is a Descriptive term used for describing physician practices, usually in primary care in the Medical Home Model, which cultivate direct financial relationships with patients, rather than our currently dominant third party payor contracts.  

How does the Platform compare to the overhead of typical primary care office practices?

Our Platform reduces overhead by 80% compared to median primary care office overhead. ( 2007, Modern Healthcare)

Why should I allow my patients to have access to their medical record?

There is a massive demand amongst health consumers to have access to their medical record through a PHR.   Consumer internet health business are growing in popularity and transparency of the medical record is essential for any primary care physician wishing to remain competitive in practice.  Also transparency of the medical record is responsible for some of the dramatic cost reduction found in the Personal Medicine Model.

Doesn’t this restrict what I can chart in the medical record?

There is a way to restrict viewing of aspects of the record, by setting “ permissions” within the EMR.  For example, a mother of a patient in which you suspect “ Munchausen’s by Proxy” you may wish to document and hide permission from the patient.  This is your legal right.


What about lab and x ray?

We recommend bringing clia waived testing with you, as they are convenient, simple and easy to transport.   If you retain ownership of your office, you may use those facilities as you wish.   The EMR portion of the platform has interface with quest and lab core as well.  

What should I tell my partners?

We find the transition to utilizing the Personal Medicine Platform enhances the market share of an existing practice, adding significant revenues without adding overhead.  Over time we envision that as the house call  service line grows, additional doctors in the practice will transition to house calls as well, and you will hire in new physicians and nurse practitioners to support the office.   This differentiates your brand and puts your practice leaps and bounds over your competition.  

What if I only want to practice part time?

Personal Medicine’s overhead structure is perfect for part time practice.  If you only want to maintain a half panel of 150 patients, you will still have take home pay that rivals the medial take home pay in primary care.

What is SAAS, anyway?

SAAS or “ Software as a Service” is an established  business model in the tech industry.   It refers to using software services on a monthly membership rate rather than traditional health IT licensing models.   Also utilizing enterprize cloud computing services, with outsourced hosting, security, backups,  it frees physicians from hefty IT costs associated with puchasing and maintaining servers, firewalls, backups, and hosting.  Utilizing this technology is part of the drastic overhead reduction of practice, compared with traditional Health IT. 

How secure are the servers that house the medical record data?

The hosting environment maintains high level of encryption and firewall.  It is as safe as the banking industry standards.  Also, our hosting environment incorporates third party IT consultants advice as well as security audits into their data and security strategy. 

How does social media within the Personal Medicine Platform help grow my practice?

The old methods of practice building  word of mouth, print marketing materials,  TV are slow costly ways to grow a cash practice.  They are intrusive and ineffective.  The latest  social networks present the opportunity for exponential growth of your practice, minimizing your risk in the transition.   There is deep emotion and value that house calls brings to patients and our marketing platform seeks to intimately tell the personal story of each physician, patient, employer, through video, community, blogs, forums, in a permission based manner that makes your patient sale when the patient is ready to buy.   Without social media, one customer tells one person at a time about your practice.  With the Personal Medicine Platform, one person tells 500 people at a time!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAQ Page for Physicians

Here is a nice list of questions from our early Physician Customers about implementing direct practice. Physicians please feel free to submit any other questions directly through our site email!!

To Your Best Health,

The Personal Medicine Team

Posted via web from personalmedicine's posterous