{"id":3820,"date":"2022-06-09T14:35:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T14:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pockethealthqa.wpengine.com\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2025-05-09T16:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:02:49","slug":"how-pockethealth-can-help-you-stay-on-top-of-your-familys-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pockethealth.com\/patient-resources\/how-pockethealth-can-help-you-stay-on-top-of-your-familys-health\/","title":{"rendered":"How PocketHealth can help you stay on top of your family\u2019s health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our Patient Spotlight Series allows us to share stories from people in our community who have used PocketHealth to make positive changes in their lives. This week, we caught up with Katherine, who uses the platform to help keep track of her family\u2019s health.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>How did you discover PocketHealth?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few years ago my husband was getting a scan in Timmins, something to do with his heart, dye being put in his heart, and I read it on the wall. And we hooked up to it from there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>And are you using it for multiple people in your family?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I have a family account and it\u2019s all used up. There\u2019s not enough people included. I just wish you could add more people to the account. I have five kids, so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Have you found that having access to your imaging has been helpful when you go to the doctor?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. Yes, all the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Does it change how you approach your appointments or how you prepare for them?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It just holds you more accountable. You know before you go in there what\u2019s going to happen. And if you read the report when you get it, you know that if there\u2019s something on it that has to be looked at and the doctor isn\u2019t calling you in a suitable amount of time, you can call and say \u201cHey, what\u2019s going on?\u201d And that\u2019s exactly what I did today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>So you used the report you had to push for the follow up you were waiting for?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, because the doctor was waiting for results and I knew I got them because I got an email and I opened it up and I looked, so I knew I had it. So I waited a few days and he didn\u2019t call, so I called him and he said that he didn\u2019t get it yet, which probably meant it hadn\u2019t been read yet. And I said, \u201cWell actually it has been read because I have a report myself through PocketHealth.\u201d And then we started getting into what PocketHealth was and he said he was going to look into it for himself. Anyway, he said \u201cYou know, we don\u2019t normally do this, but can you send me what you have?\u201d So I just sent him the whole file through email and he was really surprised by it and he said \u201cOh, I think they sent it to me already\u201d and I said \u201cWas it through PocketHealth?\u201d and he said \u201cYeah\u201d and I said \u201cNo, that\u2019s the one I just sent you.\u201d That surprised him as well, because it had everything there, so it was just like it was sent through [normally].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Do you feel like PocketHealth has given you more power in the healthcare system?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do. 100%. You\u2019re more proactive. You\u2019re more accountable. Nothing can slip through the cracks because you know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What kind of person or patient do you think would benefit most from PocketHealth?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think everybody would. My daughter was a cancer patient in 2006 and this would have been helpful to have. I knew from her being a cancer patient that things move a lot faster than they say they do, with tests and exams. And I\u2019ve always been proactive in trying to get scans and stuff like that right away instead of listening to, like the doctor\u2019s assistant today saying \u201cOh, it\u2019s probably not read yet.\u201d So now I can say \u201cNo. I know it\u2019s read.\u201d My husband had a heart attack a couple of years ago and he\u2019s having problems with his heart, so it\u2019s something I can fall back on and say \u201cNo, this is unacceptable. Why haven\u2019t you got it?\u201d And, like I said, that\u2019s actually saved me a few times. I couldn\u2019t ask for anything else. It\u2019s been the best thing since\u2014since ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PocketHealth is putting hundreds of thousands of patients just like Katherine back in charge of their healthcare journey by giving them easy online access and ownership of all their medical imaging and making it a breeze to share this information with doctors and care providers around the world. To access your medical imaging and records, please visit us <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocket.health\/en-US\/requestrecords\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Patient Spotlight Series allows us to share stories from people in our community who have used PocketHealth to make positive changes in their lives. This week, we caught up with Katherine, who uses the platform to help keep track of her family\u2019s health. 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