About RuthannRusso.com

On her website Dr. Russo addresses topics for the savvy healthcare consumer to help individuals get the best possible healthcare, including items such as:

• When you need a new doctor, how do you find one that will provide a high quality of care?
• If you disagree with your doctor about a diagnosis or treatment, what do you do?
• When your children are older, will they have reliable information about their family’s medical history?
• What is in your medical record and what does it mean? Why is any of this important?

If you’ve experienced any kind of health challenges, you probably know the importance of these issues and, most likely, you’ve had some frustrations with navigating your way through the healthcare system. This site can help you.

Resources Available from RuthannRusso.com
Articles: Dr. Russo posts articles, announcements and news on her website.

Videos: Dr. Russo provides videos for online viewing covering varying topics of interest to savvy healthcare consumers.

Your Stories: Dr. Russo is in the process of collecting individual stories about positive healthcare experiences for an upcoming project and to share with our readers.

Your Questions: Submit your questions to Dr. Russo to be answered in her newsletter.

About Dr. Russo

Ruthann Russo, PhD, JD, MPH, RHIT, is a healthcare expert with more than 20 years of experience working in and advising healthcare organizations. She designed the HealthMap™ program to help healthcare consumers create plans for their own health that reflect their personal values, vision and mission. She works with physicians to help improve their documentation in patient medical records and to improve the quality of healthcare. She has personally instructed more than 3,000 physicians in hospitals across the country, including hospitals affiliated with the University of Maryland, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and University of Massachusetts. She is the author of five books on the topics of health information, documenting in patient records, using medical record information, and ensuring medical bills are correct. She is a graduate of Dickinson College, American University’s Washington College of Law, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s program in public health, and Touro University, where she earned her doctoral degree in business administration. She is a Partner with the Bethlehem-based law firm Russo and Russo and a Managing Director with Navigant Consulting. Ruthann and her husband, Joe, an attorney in Pennsylvania and New York, have been married for 25 years. They have two children, Emmalea and John. They live in Center Valley, Pennsylvania and New York City.