Direct Care Medicine

General Advantages

• 1. Smaller patient panels allowing-new visits of 60 minutes and follow-up 15-45 minutes
• 2. e-Prescriptions – direct re-filing of prescriptions with pharmacy (established patients only)
• 3. Reduce need for travel to doctor’s office:
• • Virtual (online) home visits (free Skype video/audio communications)
• • Home remote tele-monitoring of patient’s chronic conditions
• • Home care personal visits as necessary
• 4. Appropriate referral to the best hospitalists and specialists as necessary
• 5. Web portals (internet access necessary)
• • Direct patient access to medical information (labs/x-ray reports and consults)
• 6. Direct access to your physician 24/7 (email, text) or (cellphone)
• 7. coaching (smoking, weight loss, psychology problems)
• 8. Performance data via How’s Your Health – In conjunction with Dartmouth Medical School assessment of independent direct-care practices.
• 9. Proactive health – Because of the time available to each patient the problems list is reviewed on a regular basis whether the patient is seen or not to determine if the recent literature contributes to the care of the patient. My private data base and search capabilities records active problems and reports to the patient about any applicable advances in treatment. Of course, I welcome any inquiries that my patients have regarding advertisements or news relevant to their condition.