CarePages
Keeps Loved Ones
Close,
Effortlessly
 To
help our patients keep in touch more easily with friends and
family, UCLA Healthcare recently implemented CarePages, a
free, internet-accessible, patient-centered communication
service.
While
it’s comforting to know that friends and family care
about our patient’s well being, it’s often burdensome
for them to update everyone while trying to rest and heal.
With
CarePages, patients can easily create and manage their own
web page to share information, update those concerned all
at once and minimize phone calls, post photos, receive messages
and monitor who’s visiting. Each patient’s personal
CarePage is secure and only accessible to those who are authorized.
Patients can also assign a friend or family member to manage
their CarePage for them.
Maternity
patients can post their newborn’s first picture for
all the grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends to coo over,
patients can receive notes of encouragement, and pediatric
patients can keep up with their classmates. Visitors can check
the web page before, during and after hospitalization or following
an outpatient procedure, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Here’s
a sampling of comments from friends and family of UCLA patients:
“I
haven’t wanted to contact the family too often since
my friend’s injury, but with CarePages I don’t
have to worry about being intrusive, and I’m kept informed
with whatever they want to share with all their friends.”
“It allows me to relay support and prayers to the patient
and family in a way that maintains their privacy and health.
It saves time for all involved and allows the patient/family
to share back with us when convenient.”
“What
a great use of technology! It thrills me to know my friend
(the patient) can update so many people at once without repeating
the same information over and over.”
If you
or someone you know may benefit from CarePages while receiving
care at UCLA, simply go to www.carepages.com/ucla
and click on “Create a CarePage.” CarePages brochures
will be available in outpatient and inpatient areas in all
the hospitals.
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