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Your Practice Online™

Achieve Office Efficiencies
Secure patient messaging, integrated with your Web site, has features designed to reduce the administrative burdens of your office. Patients can also go to your practice Web site to get answers to frequently asked questions, such as directions to your office.

Access New Insured Patients
Many online physician finder services that patients use to select a physician, including a number of health plan directories, will feature a link to your Web site on the Medem network. What's more, your practice will have a unique Web address on the Internet that patients can access directly.

Patients can access Medem's extensive library of healthcare information from leading medical societies, 24 hours per day, from your practice Web site.

Secure Messaging
Patients can send messages to schedule appointments, request prescription renewals, or ask general questions. Unlike other messaging technology, Medem's Secure Messaging allows you to designate which patients your practice will communicate with.

Post your practice information -- office hours, address, telephone and fax numbers, even directions to your practice!

Your practice Web site is free with Medem site service sponsorship.

Customize your online medical library with your own documents.

Include pre- and post- procedure information and instructions for your patients.

Keep your patients up to date with specialty and state-specific news.

So, you already have Your Practice Online?

Once your site is online, updates and enhancements are easy and can be made at any time:

1. Just go to http://www.yourpracticeonline.com
2. Click on Login under Already a Member?
3. Log in with your User ID and password
   (Contact Medem Member Services toll free at 877.926.3336 if you have forgotten your User Id or password.)

Add new Web pages or update existing page information, such as practice location or insurance information.

Click here to get started with Secure Messaging, where you control which patients and types of messages your practice will responde to.

Update your practice announcements.
Add your own articles and patient resources.

Add or delete articles from Medem's Medical Library.

Register your site with major search engines and add keywords tohelp patients find your Web site.

See how many patients have visited your Web site.

Save your practice time and money with Secure Messaging

The Secure Messaging service has features designed to reduce administrative burdens and improve efficiencies for your ofice, including:

• Appointment Requests: Enables your patients to request or change appointments in a highly structured format that reduces phone calls in establishing appointments.
  
  
• Appointment Reminders: Allows your staff to automatically remind patients about schedule appointments, saving time, decreasing your "no show" rates, and reducing costs associated witih mailing reminders and phone calls. In addition, these reminders can be accompanied with important clinical messages that you may want to reinforce with patients between appointments.
  
  
• Prescription Renewals: Allows you and your practice to communicate with patients about their medications, facilitating authorizations on renewals. A templated form gathers all pertinent information that can be approved and routed to the pharmacy via fax.

Medem's Secure Messaging is compliant with malpractice carrier eRisk guidelines and proposed HIPAA regulations regarding privacy.

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To create your site, visit www.yourpracticeonline.com, or call Medem at 877.926.3336.