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  2. What to Know About Patient Portals - WebMD

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    A patient portal is a secure website set up by a health care system, hospital, or clinic. The tools (or features) vary, depending on the portal. Patient portals can help you access medical records ...

  3. Different Types of Health Plans: How They Compare - WebMD

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    This varies depending on the type of plan -- HMO, POS, EPO, or PPO. What you pay: Premium: An HDHP generally has a lower premium compared to other plans. Deductible: The deductible is at least ...

  4. Telemedicine: The Benefits of Virtual Healthcare

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    Telemedicine offers a wide range of benefits, with the ultimate goal of better health outcomes. These benefits are also the reasons why so many people often opt for this type of care. The benefits ...

  5. Patient portal - Wikipedia

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    Patient portals are healthcare -related online applications that allow patients to interact and communicate with their healthcare providers, such as physicians and hospitals. Typically, portal services are available on the Internet at all hours of the day and night. Some patient portal applications exist as stand-alone web sites and sell their ...

  6. Doctor Rating and Review Sites: Reliable? - WebMD

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    You can also go online to look up health care providers in your community and find out how they rate. Before you get started, there are a few things you should keep in mind: These sites use only ...

  7. What's a Primary Care Physician (PCP)? - Healthline

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    Primary care physicians are doctors who work to prevent, diagnose, and treat a wide range of conditions that affect people at varying life stages. Primary care physicians have the expertise and ...

  8. Electronic health record - Wikipedia

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    The electronic health record (EHR) is a more longitudinal collection of the electronic health information of individual patients or populations. The EMR, in contrast, is the patient record created by providers for specific encounters in hospitals and ambulatory environments and can serve as a data source for an EHR. [6] [7]

  9. Health care provider - Wikipedia

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    Health care provider. A health care provider is an individual health professional or a health facility organization licensed to provide health care diagnosis and treatment services including medication, surgery and medical devices. Health care providers often receive payments for their services rendered from health insurance providers.