Technologies In The Medical Field
The use impact technology in the medical field can go from the use of EMR’s (Electronic Medical Records), blood pressure machines, thermometers, EKG’s and many more things. Without technology it would make working in the medical field just that much harder. EKG’s would not exist because there is no way to look at how the heart is functioning under the skin and if there is something wrong with the heart with just your eyes alone.
We need the paper with the printed lines to tell us exactly how the heart is functioning. Some of the other things we can of course do without the use of technology for example we can use paper charts, manual blood pressures, manual counts of someone pulse and weigh folks without a digital scale. Spinning blood down at a high speed without the use of a centrifuge would be hard to separate the blood as we cannot spin it in hand fast enough to separate it.
The use of EMR’s makes our lives easier by allowing us to be able to send prescriptions electronically, creating lab slips, legible progress notes, see lab results the next day, seeing all of the previous encounters, send messages for doctor to doctor or doctor to an MA or whoever I the office, allows you to attach other doctors to the get the results of a patients labs that are being drawn. Technology also allows us to fax things from one office to another, make copies and print out papers for the patient to have hard copies of. Technology gives us the ability to see what is going on inside the body as well with the use of CT scans, PET scans, MRI’s, sonograms and ultrasounds.
Types of services provided at True Care Medical Group are:
INR’s which is the international normalized ratio, which tests your blood to make sure that you are not producing blood clots. The normal range for an INR of a person using a blood thinner is 2.0-3.0 and 0.8-1.2 is the normal range for a person not using a blood thinner. This is test by either drawing a person’s blood and sending it to the lab or sticking the persons finger and using a suction tube to gather the blood and then inserting it into a testing strip that is in the machine that reads in within minute. They perform EKG’s and glucose readings.
True Care Medical Group (TCMG) has its own in-house lab that does phlebotomy, deals with specimens, and urinalysis. TCMG is an internal medical facility, they see those who are sick, in need of pre-op’s, regular follow ups. They are primary doctors who focus on the body as whole when diagnosing. TCMG accepts 27 different types of insurances.
The types that are accepted are: Aetna Choice POS II, Aetna HMO, Aetna Managed Choice POS Open Access, Aetna Select, Aetna Signature Administrators PPO, BCBS Blue Card PPO, Care First Blue Choice Advantage, CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO, CareFirst Maryland POS, CIGNA HMO, CIGNA Open Access Plus, CIGNA PPO, Coventry DE PPO, Coventry Southern Health PPO, First Health PPO, Humana Choice POS, Humana Choice Care Network PPO, Multiplan PPO, PHCS PPO, UHC Choice Plus POS, UHC Compass HMO, UHC Navigate HMO, UHC Navigate POS, UHC Optimum Choice Preferred POS, and UHC Options PPO.
True Care Medical Group is a single entity with two locations. One location is 6730 Holabird Ave, Dundalk MD. At this location there is two Dr’s and one nurse practitioner, two medical assistants and two front desk staff members. The second location is 9512 Harford Road, Parkville MD. This location has one doctor and two nurse practitioners, two medical assistants, two front desk staff members and one discharge person.
