{"id":2383,"date":"2010-11-29T14:06:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T22:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2015-09-30T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:59:42","slug":"my-pet-records-are-now-online-why-not-my-personal-health-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/my-pet-records-are-now-online-why-not-my-personal-health-records\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pet Records Are Now Online, Why Not My Personal Health Records?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vetsecure.com\/sfspca.com\/pp\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/logo1.png\" alt=\"San Francisco SPCA\" \/><\/a>Today I received a email from the San Francisco SPCA, where we take our cats for vet care, announcing the launch of Pet Portal a secure, private pet health website that gives us direct access to manage our pet&#8217;s health 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pet Portals are private, secure websites where you can:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: 17px;\">\n<li>Check your pet&#8217;s health records<\/li>\n<li>Request an appointment<\/li>\n<li>Search our extensive pet health library<\/li>\n<li>View your pet&#8217;s medication schedules<\/li>\n<li>View vaccination history<\/li>\n<li>Upload photos of your pet<\/li>\n<li>Update your account information<\/li>\n<li>Check your pet&#8217;s vaccination\/medical service status<\/li>\n<li>Send yourself medication reminders by email<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love it! So convenient and a great addition to the already outstanding services at the SF SPCA.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;. why the hell can I do all of this for my pets, but not for my own health care? Its 2010, when can I review my personal health records online? When can I request a appointment online? When can I review my prescriptions and refill them online? The last time I need to refill a prescription I had to call and make a appointment to visit my doctor so he could ask me a couple questions and then refill it. When is our health care going to catch up with technology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a email from the San Francisco SPCA, where we take our cats for vet care, announcing the launch of Pet Portal a secure, private pet health website that gives us direct access to manage our pet&#8217;s health 24\/7. Pet Portals are private, secure websites where you can: Check your pet&#8217;s health records [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[512,513,514,515],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-health-care","tag-pet-portals","tag-spca","tag-vet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11786,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/11786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}