Personal Health Records Help Unprivileged Youth in California

Alex Bettencourt - May 6, 2011

wind youth services Personal Health Records Help Unprivileged Youth in California

The implementation of personal health records (PHRs) is gaining traction every day, and we’re proud to see it become especially popular in the San Francisco bay area. The Northern California Summit on Children and Youth was recently held in Richmond, California and the hottest topic of discussion was personal health records. When we heard this, it was music to our ears.

Why were personal health records such an important topic at this summit? Because the Health Shack Project and the Wind Youth Services, stole the show with the demonstration of their successful PHR initiatives among unprivileged youth in Northern California. (more…)

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Tips on Becoming an Empowered Patient

Pamela Swingley - January 29, 2010

CNN Health has a complete series of articles on empowered patients. Your health is your responsibility in which you need to take an active part. Throughout the series of articles lessons emerged that can help you become a more empowered patient. We’ve highlighted these lessons below. You can read the entire article here.

1. Don’t believe everything you hear (get a second opinion)
2. Ask a ton of questions
3. If you are going to use the Web, search smart
4. Free and discounted care is out there
5. Paying attention can save your life

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