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Enhancing Patient Care: The Smithville Medical Website Experience

The Smithville Experience highlights the importance of having a dedicated medical website, providing accessible and accurate patient-centered information. It enables effective communication of clinic details, such as flu clinic dates and non-OHIP billing fees, while reducing the need for constant photocopying of educational materials. This article outlines the journey of creating the website, from initial decision-making to managing content, ensuring easy updates and accessibility for patients in rural settings. Read about the tools and strategies involved in launching a successful online presence for better patient engagement.

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Enhancing Patient Care: The Smithville Medical Website Experience

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  1. DEVELOPING A WEBSITE The Smithville Experience

  2. Why have a website? • Provide accurate, non-biased easily accessible patient -centred medical information. • Can disseminate information to a large group of patients ie-flu clinic dates, hours of operations

  3. Provides clinic policies, and non-OHIP billing fees. • Requires less upkeep then constantly photocoping education pamphlets (really it does!!)

  4. How we got started…. • Basic decision…make one, or have one made up? • Cost vs our own time. • Picky about the looks?

  5. Next Step…… • Finding a webmaster and a host site • Decide whether we could update clinic information ourselves or not • Rural settings-type of internet service available for our patients

  6. The WebMaster….. • Determining their role-to manage or only design it • Define their hourly costs-their time can add up • Finding someone that understood our needs

  7. Domain Registrar The Host Site ????????????????

  8. Now all the work…. • Defining what goes in it • Finding all those links…several hours surfing the net • Smiling for the camera-and getting their permission!

  9. The Birth of Our Website…. • Announcing our website to the patients • Advertising the web-address • Referring patients to the website on a daily basis

  10. The Afterbirth…. • Changing any clinic news • Flu Clinic dates • Updating the Book List and Links

  11. Was it worth it?

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