Keeping Your Personal HealthCare Records Safe with Charla Spence

Dave and Bill welcome Charla to the CyberHood Watch today to answer questions about healthcare and your personal privacy and keeping it safe!

 

Charla Spence spent 27 years as a senior level manager At SCE, helping the company and its employees avoid and overcome mistakes. Combining her corporate background and family experience, Charla recognized the dangers of, and damage caused, by disorderly medical records.

 

Drawing from real-life drama, she devised The Personal Healthcare Record to address real life needs. Even with so many medical offices and facilities turning to electronic records, Charla suggests keeping your own PHR. …. because mistakes get made, and you are your best advocate for your health care.

 

Topic: Keeping a Personal Healthcare Record/ Helping your doctor help you.

 

Talking Points:

 

· Why a PHR is important, even with electronic records.

 

· Common mistakes made in medical records & how to avoid or correct them

 

· Positives and negatives of electronic records

 

· How having an updated medical history can cost or save you money

 

· Five pieces of information to bring with you to every medical appointment

 

· How to control and manage your own healthcare history

 

· 4 Tips for helping your doctor to help you