Introduction

Building Your Medical Care Team

• How To Select Your Medical Care Providers
• Lead, Coordinate, Communicate
• Roles & Responsibilities – Yours & Your Clinicians
• Selecting Your Advocate – Patient and family caregiver roles & responsibilities

The Savvy Patient Management System

• Setting Up Your Savvy Patient Health Record

Capturing Personal Medical History

• Details never captured by health professionals & often needed to provide information or answer questions
• Child Health Records
• Keeping Personal Health Records Updated

The Core of Your Care: Medical Appointments

• Before, During & After
• Telling Your Story – improving patient doctor communication
• Decreasing chance of misdiagnosis

Tracking New Symptoms

• Telling the Whole Story in the Right Way

Tracking & Using Medical Test & Procedure Results

• Routine Medical Tests & Procedures
• Diagnostic Medical Tests & Procedures

The Diagnosis – Short Term / Chronic Conditions

• Tracking Chronic Disease
• Managing Chronic Disease
• Telling Your Story Over Time

Making Lifestyle Changes

• Making Connections

Medications, Supplements, Over-the-Counter Drugs & Medical Equipment

Management

• Medication Management System
• Medication Error Prevention

Surgery

• Important Questions to Ask

Emergency Room & Hospitalization – Participating Better in Your Medical Care

• Your Hospital Advocate
• How to Choose Your Hospital Advocate
• Hospital advocate Roles & Responsibilities

Research – How To Be A Savvy Sleuth

• Illness & Medical Condition
• Treatments & Medication

Advance Directives

Financial Stewardship

PLUS – Preventing Medical Errors & the Nine Sets of Questions in the Critical Questions Series incorporated throughout – worth the price of the course alone!

Page Last Updated February 22, 2011