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Personal Health Record

Most medical records exist at the facility where the visit was initiated. For example, if you see a medical doctor, her record of your visit is at her office, usually inaccessible to you. If you are hospitalized, a separate record is created at the hospital, again, which is practically inaccessible to you.

Although you may have a personal record of your allergies, hospitalizations, medications, and names and addresses of your practitioners, it is vitally important to personally collect all your medical information.

This is possible now since most information is digitized, and storage is possible on discs or memory sticks, or even on your computer.

The benefits of keeping an accurate personal health record is to keep detailed medical history; coordinate practitioner visits, track and check medications herbs and supplements; monitor treatments; track vital signs such as weight and blood pressure; track wellness goals; organize plan information, and finally to connect to the internet to collect health care links and information pertinent to you.

I suggest that you purchase a memory stick, keep it on your keychain, and store all your personal medical information; collect data as you see various practitioners-after all, it is your health information, your body, and your life!