Who will be your Health Care Advocate?

As you may know, one of the sections of the dovetail organizer is Medical. With our latest version we focused on adding additional information about your health care team, prescriptions and dosages, health history present and past, family medical history, health cards, prescription insurance, and more.
We recognized that in today's environment, knowing how busy we are and how busy our health care providers are, it is up to us to manage our health care and our health care information. There is no central spot that holds the information about us that we need for communication purposes other than what we create. Plus,let's face it. We need to manage our own health care and not assume our Doctor is or will. It is up to us to put ourselves at the top of the list.
Watching Oprah's show on Tuesday with Dr. Oz, some of the main points I took away were: organize your health records, get updated copies of your medical records yearly, decide who will be your health advocate (someone who will be with you at every stage of your health journey), and at the beginning of each year particularly this one, focus on your health. You are the beginning of the circle.
In the dovetail organizer, you can input your medical history, scan or attach all of your medical informaton/cards/prescriptions into the program. You can save your information with digital images to a secure read only file on a memory stick and take it with you to share with others. It can open up on any pc computer with your password and username. Your life on a secure stick for sharing your health care story. Give a copy to your health care advocate.
Think about who will be your health care advocate. Someone you trust and can depend on. Someone who will attend appointments with you and be your ears and logical adviser.
Add that to your New Years Resolutions.