Patient Better: A Comprehensive Guide to Self-Health Management

This book is the first book of an educational series for people to learn how to self-manage care. Patient Better specializes in helping patients and their informal caregivers collaborate an at-home care team, enhance communication with clinicians, and organize their own medical managing system.

This program teaches everyday people through meaningful learning, which is a concept where previously learned information is applied and connected to new information. Because our students come from such diverse backgrounds, we begin our training at the grassroots of healthcare and focus on developing the administration skills required to properly self-manage care.

KEY ADMINISTRATION PRINCIPLES:

(1) Enhance Participation in Treatment – Have fewer complications, lessen emergency room visits, construct an information-driven medical appointment, and reduce unforeseen costs.

(2) Responsible Medical Utilization – Prepare for medical appointments, reduce unnecessary phone calls and office visits, and effectively take advantage of offered services, treatments, and resources.

(3) Improve Risk Management – Have a realistic calculation of services needed for proper treatment and recovery to make more informed decisions.

(4) Properly Self-Manage Care Records – Become an efficient liaison in the transfer of information from one doctor’s office to the next.

Difficult topics of educational “soft spots” answered:

·        Healthcare Finance Management

·        How to reverse an approved and then later denied claim

·        Read and understand the doctor’s medical notes

·        Properly Treatment Plan

·        Understand the Outcome’s (and measures) purpose and importance

·        Conduct health care research online and discuss findings with practitioners

·        Create a personal medical record keeping system

·        Enhance informal caregiver’s capabilities and participation