Alfonso.45 years.Diabetic.He is a bank employee and can hardly go to the consultation for work reasons.He recently heard about the health portal and was discharged.His doctor assigned the chronic pathologies module in the diabetes section.
Since then, regularly, introduces the data of your glycemia collected by self -control at your home.Your doctor and nurse receive the measures of these glycemia and automatic alerts if there are data outside the established ranges.
Through the portal messenger system your doctor has recommended increasing the doses of antidiabetics and continuing the controls.Your nurse has also advised, also online, eating habits that improve your blood glucose levels and allow you to take care of cardiovascular risk factors.
It sounds for science fiction, but it is a reality in the health departments of Torrevieja and Vinalopó.This is only one of the cases that Dr. Antonio Gil, coordinator of the Health Portal, uses as an example to explain the advantages of this online communication tool between medical professionals and patients and that is in operation in both centers.
«The health portal is a revolution in health care, a benefit for all users and an indisputable improvement for chronic patients.Internet allows me, for example, to control the diabetes of my patients, among other pathologies, without any barrier, ”explains Dr. Gil.
Health Portal
The health portal is an interactive space that favors communication between doctors, nurses and patients and that allows users to access in an agile and comfortable way to all information related to their health and well -being.
Consult your appointments, see the status of your tests or display clinical reports agile and simple without the need for unnecessary displacements to the medical center, are some of the functionalities available to patients who use the health portal every day.
Thus, this space allows to improve the agility and flexibility of the processes, since among the functionalities it highlights the possibility of requesting appointments for primary care, from home and a mouse coup;Process simple radiology quotes, obtain listings with all pending appointments and consult, cancel or change upcoming visits in specialized attention.
In addition, the personal 'e-sparce of each patient allows to attach to its electronic medical medical history of other health centers, in turn informing the doctor about their personal background so that they can consult them and thus perform a better monitoring ofYour general health status.
In addition, the Portal has an instant messaging service that favors better communication between the patient and health professionals who attend each case, facilitating the monitoring of their pathologies in a personalized way.
chronic patients
Among the multiple utilities that this interactive space has highlights the possibility of monitoring the clinical processes of patients with diabetes, hypertension and obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), allowing an exhaustive control of its chronicity.
Once the registration is made and validated, each user has a key that allows him to introduce, for example, his glycemia indices or his tension level on the platform.
The system itself emits an alert signal to the professional in case of data registration that are outside the established ranges.The health portal is not only a benefit for the patient, which he avoids in many cases to go to the health center for his routine monitoring, but also for the health professional, who is able to know the evolution of the pathology todistance.