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Creating a Family Health History Just Got Easier
FPs Can Send Patients to Updated Web-based Tool
By Sheri Porter
All personal information entered is confidential and downloaded only to the user's computer.
In communications with AAFP News Now, Acting Surgeon General Rear Adm. Steven Galson, M.D., M.P.H., said the resource would provide value to family physicians.
"This tool is an asset for family clinicians because not only will it help guide medical decision-making and reduce unnecessary tests, but it will also help facilitate conversation between the family health care provider and the patient. This will ultimately help clinicians provide more informed and personalized care for their patients," he said.
As for consumers, they'll appreciate the tool's easy accessibility and the fact that they can complete a basic health history in just 15-20 minutes, said Galson. "It empowers them to play an important role in contributing to their health."
The concept of an easy-to-construct and simple-to-share medical history document may catch on with the public. According to a source in the Federal Office of Public Health and Science, the original tool -- the one released in 2004 -- was downloaded about 500,000 times.
Jason Mitchell, M.D., assistant director of the AAFP's Center for Health IT, previewed the redesigned tool at a meeting in Washington last fall. He said physicians should have no qualms about sending their patients to the Web site.
"This isn't just about family history." It's about the ability to store historical genetic information, said Mitchell -- ultimately, in an electronic health record, or EHR.
"The most widely available genetic information that we have about ourselves is our family history," he added. But for busy physicians, "family history is painful to gather."
According to Mitchell, if patients go through the online process to create their family health history document and then print a copy for their physician, that document may not be EHR-ready, but it's still a time-saver for the physician.
FP Researchers Help Test Family History Tool
(5/26/2006)
'It's a Family Affair'
First ACF 2005 Program on Genomics Highlights Family History
(2/1/2005)
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