Practice Pearls from the Texas Pain Society

Edited and maintained by William B. Rogers, M.D.

With this issue, we are inaugurating a new feature that will allow the membership to share selected “pearls” from their practices across the state.   Please send your contributions by email to the TPS office or by “snail-mail” to TPS, P.O. Box 201413, Austin, TX 78720.  We’ll review them and see that they make the next available issue of the Newsletter or post to the website.

Here is my offering for this month:

1. A practice website is a very handy tool for educating my patients and for facilitating communication with them as well.  Since I use an electronic medical record (my choice was SoapWare available for sampling at www.docs.com ), I or my staff can cut and paste the patients own words of self observation, treatment responses, and questions (along with my answers) directly into the medical record.
   
   Websites can be awfully expensive to design from scratch, so I set mine up using the services of  Medem  (at www.medem.com).  The Medem websites also allow the patients to compose and file their full medical histories on line through the iHealth.com service.   Take a look at my website at www.wrogersmd.yourmd.com.