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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. 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 ...

4. Implanted Ports: What It Is and Why You May Need One for Chemo

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   Implantable ports are devices that a doctor inserts under your skin and into a vein. They usually go in about an inch below your collarbone on your upper right chest. You might hear them called ...

5. What Is a Chemo Port? - WebMD

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   Also called an implanted port, port-a-cath or medi-port, a chemo port has two parts: the port and the catheter. The port is a quarter-sized plastic or metal disc. (If you have the metal kind, don ...

6. 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 ...

7. Chemotherapy Port: How It Works for Cancer Treatment - Healthline

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   A port will be inserted into the incision under your collarbone. A catheter will be extended under your skin, from the port to the neck incision, where it will be placed into a vein. The incisions ...

8. Personal health record - Wikipedia

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   The personal health record (PHR) is an electronic, universally available, lifelong resource of health information needed by individuals to make health decisions. Individuals own and manage the information in the PHR, which comes from healthcare providers and the individual. The PHR is maintained in a secure and private environment, with the ...

9. 5 Things You Need to Know About Ports - Healthline

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   redness. fluid around the incision. shortness of breath. chest pain. fever. dizziness. swelling on your neck, face, or arm on the side where the port is inserted. Removing the port is done in a ...