7.0 of this article can be downloaded to your hard drive. Pretend you're a patient. And physicians don't always recognize just how important that visit is to the patient. Agrees Paul C. Collins, MD, who installed a computer with a Healthwise KnowledgebaseTM, a software that provides orthopaedic knowledge updates, helps patients understand diagnosed conditions, medical tests, medications and treatment.
Patients can do searches and print information while they wait.
The patient is more educated about their condition-especially when it teaches them some anatomy. This makes you look pretty smart, too. And it's much more informative than having a fish tank in the room that doesn't say much about your office-especially if one of the fish is dead. The vendor provides the free software, but the practice must invest in a computer and printer. The average patient who gets on the Healthwise system will very much appreciate your thoughtfulness in having such a resource in the office.