Make medical appointments online through TRICARE

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  • By TRICARE
FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. --  TRICAREOnline.com is the Department of Defense Internet medical portal that provides TRICARE beneficiaries with secure, interactive, one-stop-shopping access to a host of unique and exciting services, tools and resources. The site allows beneficiaries to take control of their family's health care needs.

Features
- Real-time, online military treatment facility appointing for primary care and certain self-referral appointments
- Rx Checker or drug interactions and side effects
- TRICARE health care information, including claims, benefits, enrollment and other entitlements
- Personal Health Journal in which users record and update their own medical information, such as immunizations, test results, treatment instructions, medications and more; printouts make medical history forms faster, easier and more accurate
- A medical library that provides a variety of databases for the latest information about pharmaceuticals, symptoms, illnesses, surgical and diagnostic procedures.
- Health and wellness links to women's, men's, children's and teens' health; aging and health; food and nutrition; sports and fitness; mental health; sexuality and health; alternative medicine and health; medications; traveler's health; articles from the New England Journal of Medicine and more
- Information about healthy life style program such as smoking cessation and health calculators for individual, overall health assessments
- Facility and clinic pages that provide information about each facility, its clinics, hours, driving directions and more
- Provider pages on which credentialed providers' individual pages feature their educations, clinical backgrounds, and care and treatment philosophies

Future Features
- Pharmacy refills
- Routine pharmacy renewal requests via secure messaging
- Routine lab test requests via secure messaging
- Online TRICARE enrollments
- Secure patient and provider messaging
- Appointment reminders
- Health assessments
- Beneficiary access to key portions of their electronic health record

For more information, beneficiaries can visit www.tricareonline.com or call stateside customer service at 1-800-600-9332 or (210) 767-5250 (direct). Agents are available 24 hours a day to assist beneficiaries.