Samepage Health’s VisitPrep Helps Organize Visits to Healthcare Providers
Samepage Health launched VisitPrep, a tool that helps patients organize their medical questions before going to their healthcare provider (HCP). The tool asks for the issues that patients want to discuss, what type of care they would like from the provider, and how they want to receive the information. After the information is filled in, the form can be printed out and brought to a visit. The tool quickly allows users to tell the HCP exactly how to tailor a visit to their needs, whether that’s a diagnosis, methods to reduce stress, assistance with refilling a prescription, or something else.
Visits to an HCP can be stressful; having goals for the visit can help ensure that you get your questions answered and that the visit is productive. We recommend downloading our diaTribe patient’s guide to individualizing therapy (www.diaTribe.org/patientguide), which contains five key questions to ask your healthcare provider at a visit (you can also read about how lists have been helpful for Kerri in sum musings from diaTribe #52). As many would expect, previous studies have shown that lists can help keep appointments on point and reduce anxiety before and during the visit, and we think VisitPrep is one tool that can help. –MN
