Vision
Introduction
My Health Agent helps me monitor my health, and suggests
actions to
improve my health. It takes my medical
history and integrates that information with the ever-changing medical
histories of
other members of my family. It exports part or all of my medical
history to individuals and agents who I name. It stores medical
information resulting from checkups, such as blood test values.
Problem/Opportunity Statement
| The problem |
There currently is no widely deployed way to integrate
the medical information associated with an individual. |
| Affected parties |
Individuals and
health care practitioners. |
| Impact |
Individuals need to fill out medical histories multiple
times for different health care practitioners. Such forms necessarily
are not comprehensive so that filling them out is not too
burdensome. Consequently, less information is provided, it may fall out
of date, and multiple entry invites inconsistency/error. |
Product Position Statement
The following alternatives exist.
- Quick Medical
Expense Manager - http://www.quickenmedical.com/. Track
and organize your medical expenses.
- HealthFrame
- http://www.recordsforliving.com/HealthFrame/. HealthFrame is a
software system designed to permanently record, organize and help you
and those to whom you permit access, to more easily and completely
understand all aspects of your personal health – as well as
that of your family.
- Synchart
- http://www.synchart.com/. SynChart
is a personal health record system. The
problem: Consumers currently are required to be walking encyclopedias
of their
health history. Poor
communication between patients and their health care providers is the
core problem in health care. Benefits: 1.
Better health care - the most important benefit. 2.
Increased efficiencies for you and your family in interacting with the
health care system. 3.
Fewer worries when traveling or seeing a new physician. 4.
Greater empowerment to manage your family’s health care.
There is a fee of around $55/year for this service.
- MyMedicalRecords.com
- http://www.mymedicalrecords.com/. MyMedicalRecords.com, seeks
to empower health care consumers and medical professionals by
facilitating access to consumer medical records and associated vital
documents (such as living wills, birth certificates and insurance
policies). The Company offers consumers an easy-to-use, secure
web-based product that allows documents, images and voice mail messages
to be transmitted in and out of the MMR system using a variety of
methods, including fax, file upload and email.
- Medebox
- https://www.medebox.net/.
Medebox has created a new computerized tool to help make it fun and
easy for anyone to create a portrait of their family's health.
This product is differentiated from all the existing alternatives, since:
- It is free to use.
- It is open source.
- It automatically suggests a nutritional plan, based on a
health history. This is a controversial (liability?) new expert system.
- It automatically suggests specific nutritional supplements,
given a nutritional plan. This amounts to formulating and solving an integer linear
program.
Key Goals
- Improve the communication of health
information between patients and their health care providers.
- Monitor my health as
intimately as possible as part of an event-oriented control
system,
where there are:
- internal events (from real-time body monitoring via,
e.g., the
client's cellphone)
- external events (regularly scheduled exercise, tests,
etc.).
- Select a nutritional plan based on my
profile (medical histories, test history, and any other available
information).
- Price nutritional supplements, allowing me to
optimize purchases on cost or other criteria, given a nutritional
plan.
- Accessable via smart cards, cell phones, and
my personal
computer.
- Export a web-based repository of [part of] my health
profile to me and my human health care agents, if I authorize it.
- Incorporate a genetic profile into the processes above, if requested by its owner, when such information is avaiable.
Other Requirements & Constraints
Non-functional requirements & constraints
- It is pure Java.
- The source is released under the Apache license, version 2.
Supplementary specifications that transcend any single
user
story
None currently.
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