VSI Health will be the home of the medical work of the Vermont Synergy Initiative: helping patients and families understand what is happening to them, get ready for an appointment that is always too short, and leave with the right next step.
We are on the side of the people in the exam room, the patient and the clinician both. The difficulty is the system, which gives a complicated story a few minutes. Our work is to do the homework before the visit, so those minutes go to what matters.
What will be here
- Plain-language guides to conditions, with every claim marked by how strong its evidence is
- How to read a run of blood tests over months, not one result at a time
- Questions worth taking to your doctor, written to be easy to answer
- Warning signs that should not wait for the next appointment
While this is being built
- The Book of Rare Diseasesfor the night you cannot sleep for worry
- Vermont Synergy Initiativethe home of the whole project
- My doctor never answered my message. What do I do?