| Doctors across the United States and around the | | | | you have worked at, and information about your |
| world are making use of the latest technology | | | | specialty. Allow potential new patients to contact |
| and the convenience of the internet in a variety | | | | through your website with an online form or |
| of ways. Whether it's better patient care or | | | | contact link for email. Post a picture, your |
| making their presence known in their communities, | | | | address, phone number, and hours. List all your |
| medical professionals have come to depend on | | | | services and what insurances you accept. Give as |
| web sites, web hosting, and databases. It is no | | | | much information as possible.Educate Your |
| longer a luxury, but fast becoming par for the | | | | Current Patients And Attract New OnesThere are |
| course.Better Patient CareThe internet is often | | | | a couple of specialties that have recognized the |
| used for transfer of all types of medical data. | | | | value of using online presentation of information. |
| Particularly with respect to radiology, the | | | | One is sports medicine: many clinics for |
| technology now exists to transmit CAT or PET | | | | sports-related injuries have web sites that discuss |
| scan images over the web for analysis by | | | | rehabilitation philosophy as well as surgical options |
| physicians in remote locations, or to transfer | | | | and the clinical backgrounds of the staff.Another is |
| patient information quickly whether it's across the | | | | pediatrics: a field where many group practices |
| country or around the world.Unfortunately, this | | | | have established websites in order to create an |
| technology is seeing limited use and usually only in | | | | introductory environment designed to put the |
| affiliation with larger, teaching medical centers. | | | | browsing parent at ease. Brief biographies of the |
| Transfer of individual patient information is | | | | doctors in the practice may be found there, along |
| constrained by the HIPPA regulations to the point | | | | with any specialties that apply.Physicians that have |
| that signatures are required for exchange of that | | | | established their own hosted web sites will often |
| type of data and tend to be transmitted in paper | | | | use them to provide basic information on |
| form or by fax. While some medical facilities | | | | common afflictions and links to more |
| maintain advanced databases for patient records, | | | | comprehensive sites about the diseases. Provision |
| the information contained in them remains closely | | | | of this sort of information is often done with |
| held.Maintaining a database of patient records will | | | | literature and usually with the physician walking the |
| make filing simpler for employees, free up office | | | | patient through it. For that sort of patient care, a |
| space that was once dedicated filing cabinets, | | | | hosted website can be a timesaver for the |
| allow for fewer mistakes on charts and quicker | | | | doctor. "Look it up on my website and call if you |
| and more accurate retrieval and transfer by any | | | | have questions" can be a timely and convenient |
| medium.Community Medical ListingsThe most likely | | | | closer for an office visit.Thorough Patient CareA |
| place to find a physician's name, specialty and | | | | doctor's personal website can provide alternative |
| location on the web is through the regional online | | | | contacts and telephone numbers for weekend or |
| service listings. There are probably half a dozen | | | | off-hour care. It can route calls to information |
| 'yellow page' ecommerce type services in most | | | | nurses or other personnel on staff; providing a |
| major metropolitan areas that have medical | | | | service that otherwise is simply another phone |
| listings.Additionally, there are the 'city search' type | | | | message for the doctor to return. It can also |
| web hosted services that provide local information | | | | provide an email link for inquiries about |
| on entertainment, restaurants and local attractions | | | | appointment times - a worthwhile service for an |
| - and will also provide legal and medical listings. | | | | office with phone lines that are often busy. In the |
| There are dedicated listing services such as that | | | | medical field, a hosted website dedicated to a |
| are more comprehensive, providing specialty | | | | single doctor or practice is more an introduction |
| information and an area for the physician to | | | | and information source than an advertising vehicle. |
| provide comments on treatment focus and | | | | If designed and utilized properly, a personal |
| philosophy, but provide only a basic phone number | | | | medical website can be an efficient and useful tool |
| and address listing. A small monthly fee is | | | | in the practice of medicine.Madison Lockwood is a |
| charged.Personal Medical WebsitesIf a physician | | | | customer relations associate for She brings years |
| chooses to utilize online listing services, it would be | | | | of experience as a small business consultant to |
| of substantial value if those listings included a | | | | helping prospective clients understand the ways in |
| clickable web address for the individual doctor or | | | | which a website may benefit them both |
| practice. Any medical practice or professional listed | | | | personally and professionally. Apollo Hosting |
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| web site, so that the browsing consumer can click | | | | vps hosting, and web design services to a wide |
| to a dedicated page introducing the doctor(s) and | | | | range of customers. Established in 1999, Apollo |
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| information: where you were educated, hospitals | | | | support. |