Logon and Learn for heart health

If you are one of the 4,600 people covered by county benefits dealing with a heart related condition, you know the choices you make can affect the quality of health care you get, how much it costs and the outcomes you most desire. King County has online tools to help inform these important decisions.

• Find out which hospitals and clinics in our region follow medical guidelines for the most effective treatment of heart disease
  
  
• Find out which doctors in your area treat heart disease, what the symptoms are and how it is diagnosed and treated
  
  
• Find out how generic alternatives and home delivery of medications like Liptor and Crestor can save you money
  
  
• Create a personal health record to track numbers that can be vital to heart health: cholesterol, blood glucose and other lab tests.

Here are some online tools that can help you make the best choices for your health:

• The Puget Sound Health Alliance Community Check-Up Report  can tell you which hospitals and clinics in our region follow medical guidelines for the most effective treatment of heart disease.
  
  
• Aetna SmartSource^SM  makes it easy to find personalized health information on many conditions. Search on coronary heart disease and results will link you to: doctors in your area that treat heart disease, what the symptoms are, how it is diagnosed and treated and the estimated cost of care for treatment. SmartSource^SM pulls information from the most credible medical web resources to provide you with the answers to questions you want to know.
  
  
• Express Scripts  can tell you if there are generic alternatives to the medication you are taking and how much you can save by choosing generics and home delivery.
  
  
• Aetna KingCare  lets you create a personal health record to track your medical treatment and lab results.

For more information on web tools that can help you make the best health care decisions see the Health Matters Logon and Learn site.