Medical Snapshot | Printable & Editable Health Summary

Description

When your health involves multiple diagnoses, comorbidities, specialists, and treatments, it can be difficult to communicate the big picture of your care to every healthcare provider you see. Inspired by a concept presented in Disjointed by Diana Jovin, this medical snapshot helps you condense extensive medical context into a brief overview, so providers can quickly understand the information most important to your health.

Features of the Medical Snapshot

Designed to provide critical medical context at a glance:

Concise & Customizable

Prioritize the information that matters most to your overall health, customize the snapshot as your needs change, and use it digitally or print it for your healthcare providers.

Context Across Specialties

Give providers a quick overview of your broader health picture, including the conditions, care, and individual factors that may be relevant across specialties.

What’s Inside?

• Primary Diagnoses: list the primary condition or conditions that provide the foundation for understanding your overall medical history
• Comorbidities: include the most relevant co-occurring or related conditions that contribute to your overall health picture
• Treating Specialists: list the specialties currently involved in managing your conditions and ongoing care
• Active Treatments: include the medications, therapies, devices, or other treatments most important to understanding your current care
• Clinical Considerations: note important context about how your conditions affect you, including functional impact, baseline symptoms, or other factors that may influence your care

Easy to Print

This printable digital document includes two medical snapshots on a standard letter-size page, so you can print normally and cut the page in half—no special printer settings required.

Getting Started

Getting your medical snapshot ready only takes a few steps:

1. Download the Snapshot

Save a copy of the medical snapshot in Google Docs or Microsoft Word.

2. Customize It

Add the medical information that provides the most important context for understanding your health and ongoing care.

3. Prioritize Your Information

Focus on the diagnoses, comorbidities, treatments, specialists, and clinical considerations that are most useful for providers to understand at a glance.

4. Choose a Format

Keep your snapshot as a digital reference or print copies to share with your healthcare providers.

5. Keep It Up to Date

Update your snapshot when there are significant changes to your diagnoses, treatments, care team, or other important medical context.

Complete Your Appointment Prep

Looking for even more ways to stay organized? These resources are designed to work alongside the medical snapshot:

• Medical Binder Template: keep your ongoing medical history, medications, test results, insurance information, and more organized in one place
• New Patient Appointment Worksheet: gather your medical history, questions, symptoms, and other important information before establishing care with a new provider or meeting with a specialist for the first time
• Routine Appointment Worksheet: stay organized for follow-up appointments by tracking updates, new concerns, questions, and next steps after you’ve established care with a provider
• Medical Appointment Prep Bundle: save when you purchase the medical binder template, medical snapshot, new patient appointment worksheet, and routine appointment worksheet together in one bundle

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