TY - JOUR
AB - Editor Lawrence Blonde, MD, FACP, FACE Director, Ochsner Diabetes Clinical Research Unit, Section on Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolic Diseases, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA 70121, USA. E-mail: lblonde@ochsner.org KatrinaHealth http://www.katrinahealth.org/ KatrinaHealth is an online service to help individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina work with their health care professionals to gain access to their own electronic prescription medication records. Through KatrinaHealth.org authorized pharmacists and doctors can get records, including the specific dosages, of medications evacuees were using before the storm. This information will help evacuees renew their medications, and help health care professionals avoid prescription errors and help coordinate care. Because evacuees are spread out across the country, this information may be accessed from anywhere in the United States through KatrinaHealth.org. The information provided on this website is meant to complement, not substitute for, complete information provided to the doctor or pharmacist by his or her patient or client. To protect patients’ privacy, medication infor- mation about certain sensitive health care conditions is not available through KatrinaHealth.org. The urgent effort to make KatrinaHealth.org available to health care professionals was facilitated by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, within the U.S. Department of 
TI - Web alert
JF - Current Diabetes Reports
DO - 10.1007/s11892-005-0045-9
DA - 2005-05-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/web-alert-HTKkcNVKiY
SP - 402
EP - 403
VL - 5
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -