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Benenden Health (formerly The Post Office and Civil Service Sanatorium Society) is a not-for-profit mutual society in the UK providing private medical cover. Its membership consists of over 870,000 individuals and employees of corporate schemes provided by them. [ 1 ]
Today the hospital is an independent organisation, for most medical and surgical specialities and mainly treats members of The Benenden Healthcare Society as well as some NHS and private patients. On August the 3rd 1943 French Pilot Jean Maridor intercepted a German V-1 flying bomb flying in the direction of Benenden. Having made repeated ...
The major shortcoming of most patient portals is their linkage to a single health organization. If a patient uses more than one organization for healthcare, the patient typically needs to log on to each organization's portal to access information. This results in a fragmented view of individual patient data. [3]
Patients Know Best is a British social enterprise, [1] with an aim of putting patients in control of their own medical records. [2] In the UK, Patients Know Best integrates into the NHS app [ 3 ] and in the Netherlands, it integrates with the government's personal health records infrastructure persoonlijke gezondheidsomgeving (PGO) .
A personal health record (PHR) is a health record where health data and other information related to the care of a patient is maintained by the patient. [1] This stands in contrast to the more widely used electronic medical record, which is operated by institutions (such as hospitals) and contains data entered by clinicians (such as billing data) to support insurance claims.
The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System [1] (PROMIS) provides clinicians and researchers access to reliable, valid, and flexible measures of health status that assess physical, mental, and social well–being from the patient perspective. PROMIS measures are standardized, allowing for assessment of many patient-reported ...
A Radiographer explains an x-ray to a coal miner participating in screening. Patient education can include explaining the results of diagnostic tests. Patient education is a planned interactive learning process designed to support and enable expert patients [1] to manage their life with a disease and/or optimise their health and well-being. [2] [3]
The Royal Hospital Chelsea is a retirement home and nursing home, founded by King Charles II in 1682 as a retreat for veterans.. Healthcare in England is mainly provided by the National Health Service (NHS), a public body that provides healthcare to all permanent residents in England, that is free at the point of use.