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At Wake Forest Baptist, we are committed to providing our patients with a simple, secure way to access their medical information (such as lab results and future appointments) and e-mail their healthcare providers for more information (including prescription refills) about their care.

Access your health information online, anytime. Please view our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section for information on how to get started.

Be Involved in Changing the Future of Health Care

The treatments of tomorrow are being developed today by the ideas and innovations of our scientists and physicians. But these ideas and innovations require scientific study to advance.

Wake Forest Baptist Health conducts hundreds of clinical trials every year in an effort to detect, treat and prevent disease. By participating in a research study, you may provide future generations with the promise of better health.

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Wake Forest Baptist in the News

Surgeons Reattach Teen’s Arm after Utility Terrain Vehicle Accident

Wake Forest Baptist vascular and orthopaedic hand teams successfully reattached the severed arm of a 13-year-old boy after a utility terrain vehicle.

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Surgeons Reattach Teen’s Arm after Utility Terrain Vehicle Accident

Wake Forest Baptist Offers New Breakthrough 3-D Technology in Surgery

Wake Forest Baptist is the first hospital in the Southeast and just the second in the world to own a device that allows operating room staff and medical students to see in 4K (ultra-high-definition) 3-D.

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Wake Forest Baptist Offers New Breakthrough 3-D Technology in Surgery

Wake Forest School of Medicine Students Learn Medicine in the Wild

To help prepare future physicians to practice medicine in low resource settings, Wake Forest School of Medicine offers the wilderness medicine interest group to medical students.

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Wake Forest School of Medicine Students Learn Medicine in the Wild

Prosthetic Memory System Successful in Humans

Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have demonstrated the successful implementation of a prosthetic system that uses a person’s own memory patterns to facilitate the brain’s ability to encode and recall memory. In the pilot study, participants’ short-term memory performance showed a 35 to 37 percent improvement over baseline measurements. The research was funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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Prosthetic Memory System Successful in Humans

Scientists Use Nanotechnology to Detect Molecular Biomarker for Osteoarthritis

For the first time, scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have been able to measure a specific molecule indicative of osteoarthritis and a number of other inflammatory diseases using a newly developed technology.