My Medical Reports

My Medical Reports
My Medical Reports LLC
Type Private
Founded 2008
Headquarters Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States
Key people Joel A Adler, CEO
Brian McDonough, MD, FAAFP, Senior Medical Editor
Products Health Information Services
Employees 25 (2008)
Website http://www.mymedicalreports.com/

My Medical Reports LLC is an American provider of health information services. This public Internet site provides up to date and accurate information regarding health and health care, including audio reports and video reports, pharmacy information, blogs by physicians and lengthy interviews with medical experts.

This site receives information from accredited individuals and organizations and is reviewed by a medical review board to ensure accuracy. The medical review board is headed by Brian McDonough, MD, FAAFP, Senior Medical Editor for My Medical Reports. Dr. McDonough is "Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine and Chairman of The Family Medicine Department at St. Francis Hospital.[1]

MyMedicalReports.com is partnering with Mediguard. Mediguard's aim is to monitor the safety of prescription medicines, over-the-counter medicines and healthcare supplements in over 1,050,000 US patients.[2] The company also rates the safety of different drugs using a standardized ratings scale,[3] and has received critical support from patient advocacy groups concerned by the large number of patients affected by serious, preventable adverse drug reactions.[4]

The organization is financed by third-party contributions and sponsorships.

References

  1. ^ http://www.sffp.org
  2. ^ Mediguard Patient Numbers www.Mediguard.org, accessed 20 January 2009.
  3. ^ Barriaux, Marianne (2007-10-02). "'Traffic-light' medicine risk website to launch". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/oct/02/7. Retrieved 19 May 2010. 
  4. ^ Two Frontrunners for Drug Safety Prevention www.ismp.org, accessed 20 January 2009.

External links



Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Medical transcription — Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or converting voice recorded reports as dictated by physicians and/or other healthcare professionals, into text format. Contents …   Wikipedia

  • Medical missions in China — by Protestant Christian physicians and surgeons of the 19th and early 20th centuries laid many foundations for modern medicine in China. Western medical missionaries established the first modern clinics and hospitals,provided the first training… …   Wikipedia

  • medical transcriptionist — An individual who performs machine transcription of physician dictated medical reports concerning a patient s health care, which become part of the patient s permanent medical record; a certified m. (CMT) has satisfied the requirements for… …   Medical dictionary

  • Medical Reserve Corps — Logo The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a network in the U.S. of community based units initiated and established by local organizations to meet the public health needs of their communities. It is sponsored by the Office of the Surgeon General of… …   Wikipedia

  • Medical Decision Making (journal) — Medical Decision Making   …   Wikipedia

  • Medical anthropology — is an interdisciplinary field which studies human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation .[1] It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives.[2] It is one of the most highly developed areas of… …   Wikipedia

  • Medical Care Research and Review — Medical Care Research Review   …   Wikipedia

  • Medical explanations of bewitchment — Medical explanations of bewitchment, especially as exhibited during the Salem witch trials but in other witch hunts as well, have emerged because it is not widely believed today that symptoms of those claiming affliction were actually caused by… …   Wikipedia

  • Medical tourism — (also called medical travel, health tourism or global healthcare) is a term initially coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain health care. It also… …   Wikipedia

  • Medical physics — is the application of physics to medicine. It generally concerns physics as applied to medical imaging and radiotherapy, although a medical physicist may also work in many other areas of healthcare. A medical physics department may be based in… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”