HealthFrame Discussion

Unable to Edit existing Expense record

drix — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 22:32:15 GMT

I put in records for prescriptions etc, and I'm not able to Save the record to make changes. Save button is grayed out after I make changes. Only available options are Delete and Close, which does not save changes. I've noticed this before but didn't have time to report it. It needs to work as it should. Please fix.

Can I create a Visits Report including After Visit Notes?

drix — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:21:37 GMT

This would be very helpful since the Visits Summary report only lists the Date, Type, With and Reason. I need the details that I've recorded since we rarely get any "doctor notes". I don't want to copy/paste into my own document. Reports need to be more flexible to show/hide any info that's in a record.

Relationships broken during export/import in Healthframe format

Mindsurfer — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 13:17:52 GMT

Beyond the relationship between contacts and contact types being broken during migration from one machine to another, I've just discovered that all Relationships were wiped, too. The data is still there - Tests, Concerns, Treatments, etc.- but the relationships linking the data are gone, except for Vital Statistics on the Visit records, themselves. Grateful the data wasn't lost, but a tremendous amount of work to re-create the relationships.

Since Novemeber 2017, I've dealt with multiple hospitalizations, over 120 outpatient visits to multiple organizations and over 15 doctors. Healthframe has been invaluable in pulling that information together. While I do not regret purchasing the product, given Records For Living's aspirations for the product, the lack of response on the support forum to reported issues and suggestions for enhancements, and the problems that have emerged, are discouraging.

Healthframe has a lot of potential and fills a much-needed gap in PHR products. It is among the only PHR products that doesn't rely on Internet-based storage while offering the option. That said, the product needs a development team actively interested in the product and engaged with its users. There are many excellent features in this product, and response to the one email I sent to support was immediate, however the unexplained delay in release of an announced interim release (v3.0.2) with another theoretically already in the works (v3.0.3), and the complete lack of engagement in the support forum and the Facebook account, suggest to potential customers, existing customers, and the public, that the product is moribund.

Larger Emergency Card

drix — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 22:56:57 GMT

I know the Emergency card is supposed to be small to fit in your wallet, but my husband has some many Concerns and Medications, it gets truncated. It would be nice to have to option to "grow" to contain all contents and maybe customize the items on the card. Thanks!

Feature Request: Add NEXT and PREVIOUS options to panel with open journal entries; Bug? linking entries to Visits

dealio — Tue, 22 May 2018 16:35:14 GMT

I've created several journals in the applications to track various histories that aren't necessarily an issue and may not be quantifiable. Examples:

Body Observations -- to capture the odd bump or mark on the skin that I notice from time to time which may or may not become an issue

Sleep Journal -- to track sleep times

Headache Journal -- tracking when I have headaches and what type of headache it is as well as what I do to relieve it.

Exercise Journal -- a place to track my efforts to sustain a viable exercise regimen and the impact that is has on weight, blood pressure and other measures

When I make a journal entry and perhaps later find that it is related to a medical condition, I link the two to show the relationship for future reference and to help discover any trends.

The issue: to open a journal and "flip" through the "pages" of it is cumbersome. For example, after opening the exercise journal, to see another journal entry in the same journal, I cannot do it from the open entry; I have to go back to the initial panel that has the list of exercise journal entries, then scroll to find the entry of interest and open it. And now I have 2 panels with journal entries open. While that might be useful sometimes, it would also be useful just to have a "Previous" and "Next" button on the open exercise journal entry that would allow me to "flip" through exercise journal entries without the unnecessary step of returning to the panel with all exercise journal entries listed.

Another issue with journals. I have successfully opened a journal entry and related it to, say a Dr. Visit. Later, when I open that Visit, in the Relationships section the link to the journal entry appears. When I click the link, the proper journal entry opens. Perfect! But I cannot open a Visit and create a relationship to a specific journal entry in a particular journal from the Relationship section of the Visit panel. I can create a link to the entire journal, but for me this is far less useful.

So in summary, a bi-directional link between a specific journal entry and a Visit can be created from the journal entry, but not from the Visit. I say "bi-directional" link. To be clear, what I mean is that the link from the Journal entry to the Visit appears as a link in the Relationship section of the journal entry -- the link works to open the visit. Alternatively, if I start by opening the Visit first, in the Relationship section there is a link to the journal entry and it works to open the specific journal entry. Once created, the relationship between the dated journal entry and the visit works no matter which item you open first. Although I have not tested is for Concerns (Tests, Treatments, Activities, Journals, and all the other items), I wonder if this anomaly is true when creating relationships between specific dated journal entries and each of these items as well.

This seems like a bug. If it's not, I'd request another feature -- allow creating a relationship between specific (dated) journal entries and other items just as you do with other items (e.g. Concerns, Tests, Treatments, Activity, etc.)

Thanks,

David

Contact type data lost in export/import

Mindsurfer — Tue, 22 May 2018 12:28:16 GMT

v3.0.1, while migrating to a new machine. Contact retained, but Family flag and all related information (family relationship, sex, status, dob, dod, conditions, etc.) were dropped, either during export or import. Both Export and Import ran smoothly, completing successfully and normally. Other information appears to have transferred, though I will be checking all contacts for additional issues.Discovered the missing data when I went in to update some family history
information on the new machine.

ETA:A check of other contacts indicates that all contacts lost data: Emergency contact flag and related data, Healthcare Provider flag and related data, Family flag and related data. Active/Inactive, phone numbers and email were not lost. Export was complete in Healthframe format.

Name suffix vs post-nomial abbreviation

Mindsurfer — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:26:18 GMT

There are name suffixes (e.g., Jr., Sr., III). There are post-nomial abbreviations for degrees, licenses, and certifications (e.g., M.D., PhD, F.N.P., LPC, LPN, etc.). it is possible for someone to have either or both, and for both to be necessary in the Contact entry to differentiate between father and son in the same practice. John Doe, M.D., and John Doe, Jr., M.D.

User-specified drop list values

Mindsurfer — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:14:03 GMT

Many fields have drop list controls. Examples include name prefixes and suffixes. units of measure in test results, frequency in medications, Religion in Basic Information, and many more. Most have an ellipsis selection to support user-supplied values. In some cases, the user-supplied value becomes a valid entry in the list as long as there is a record using that value, as is the case for Religion. In other lists, the user-supplied values do not show up, despite there being records that use the user-supplied value. Name suffix is one of those. Example: I deal with a nurse practitioner who has the post-nomial FNP after her name and I added her to my Contacts. Having added her and supplied the FNP designation as a user-specified name suffix, if I go to add another nurse practitioner with that designation, it isn't in the list and I have to supply it again.

I see in the forum where you want to add support for "remembering" the user-specified values on a case-by-case basis. Might it not be better to assume that, if a user specified a value that does not already appear in the list, chances are that it may be needed again? Make remembering user-specified values the norm for all drop lists, rather than the exception?

Adding and editing tests

Mindsurfer — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:58:10 GMT

Currently, in the Ordered section, populating the [During Visit] field auto-populates and locks the [By] and [Date] fields. It is possible to have tests ordered by different contacts during a visit. It is possible for tests to be ordered on multiple days of a visit. While auto-populating the fields might speed data entry in most cases, locking the fields is not helpful. We need to be able to record [During Visit], [By], and [Date] independently. Auto-fill of default values makes sense. Preventing them from being altered does not.

Currently, in the Administered section, setting the section to "Same As Ordered" eliminates even seeing the values assumed for Administered [During Visit], [By], [Start Date], and [Start Time] fields. Even if all other information remains the same as ordered, the time administered may need to be recorded when a test occurs more than once during a visit or is administered at a significantly different time than the nominal time of the visit.

If the Administered section is set to "Self" or "Additional Details", populating the [During Visit] field auto-populates and locks the [By] and [Date] fields. It is possible to have tests administered by different contacts during a visit. It is possible for tests to be administered on dates other than the nominal date of a visit. It is possible for the same type of test to be administered multiple times during a day; even if all other information remains the same, recording the time administered is necessary to differentiate between multiple tests of the same type on the same day or when a test is administered at a time significantly different from the nominal time of the visit. While auto-populating the fields might speed data entry in most cases, locking the fields is not helpful. We need to be able to record [During Visit], [By], and Start/End [Date] and [Time], independently. Auto-fill of default values makes sense. Preventing them from being altered does not.

Consider the following scenarios:

1. Single-day, multi-hour visit for therapy with tests ordered by Contact A, administered by Contact B, before and after therapy.

2. Five-day hospitalization with multiple contacts assigned to the case, all capable of ordering tests on different days, administered by still other contacts at different times. Different contacts order CBCs and Basic Metabolics to be administered at different times on the same day. Same contact orders Troponin levels four times over a 24-hour period crossing dates that show a rise then fall in enzyme levels. Date and time are important for accurate recording and reporting even in the same visit.

3. Visit to Clinic. Clinic Contact orders labs to be drawn at a free-standing lab. Tests administered during Lab visit on another day by two Lab Contacts over several hours.

In addition to the data entry, lists and reports and charting would be more helpful if they included the test times in sort and display, especially in the cases where there are multiple tests of the same type on the same day or different days of a multi-day stay. Even if a test only occurs once in a visit, recording when it happened during a day can give additional context.

Lab Test visit type

Mindsurfer — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:02:33 GMT

This relates back to my post on user-specified drop list values. Increasingly, practices and hospitals are sending patients to free-standing labs for various lab draws and imaging. Employers are also sending employees to such facilities for random drug testing and workers comp claims. Right now, I have an upcoming appointment where I'll be going to a vascular lab and they will be sending results to a surgeon for use during a separate, follow-up appointment. Neither of these types of visits are in the drop list of visit types, and if I add them, they don't show up in the drop list, afterwards; instead, I have to re-enter those types again and again. I suppose I could use Diagnostic Services, but that isn't really what they are doing. They provide a service of drawing and processing samples, and sending the results to the requesting doctor. The doctor performs the diagnostics. With so many very specific visit types listed, it would be nice to be able to add visit types that aren't present, and not have to retype them every time they are needed, or fall back to an overly generic entry that doesn't accurately reflect what is happening. If I have to add it once, chances are good that I'll be needing it again at some point in the future.

Visit location

Mindsurfer — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:21:47 GMT

I don't know about anywhere else, but around here, a number of hospitals have merged, becoming one overarching hospital with multiple locations. Both hospitals and some of the larger practices in the area have opened satellite facilities, as well. Since we have the ability to add multiple, named locations for each contact, shouldn't we be able to use them? For planning purposes, it would be handy to see not only who we're going to visit, but at which of their locations, too. It might be that I see Dr. A at any of four facilities: the VCUMC Ambulatory Care Clinic 3rd Floor, VCUMC Hume-Lee Transplant Clinic,VCUMC Critical Care Hospital, or the VCUMC Pauley Heart Center at Stony Point. Three of these facilities are different buildings in the same complex, but one is on the other side of town and 20 minutes away at highway speeds.

I think it would be good to record both who I'm going to visit and at which of their locations.

Medical History Summary - Pick a sort!

Mindsurfer — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:27:11 GMT

Concerns
- Active: leads with date, sorted ascending alphabetically
- Past: leads with date, sorted descending by date
Medications
- Active: leads with date, sorted ascending alphabetically
- Past: leads with date, sorted ascending alphabetically
Devices
- Active: leads with date, sorted ascending alphabetically
Emergency Contacts - specified list order
Healthcare Providers - Leads with text, sorted ascending alphabetically
Immunizations -leads with date, dates sorted ascending by date within vaccine, list unsorted by neither text nor date
Treatments
- Active - leads with date, sorted ascending alphabetically
- Past - leads with date, sorted ascending alphabetically

I don't care how you sort it, but be consistent. Many of these entries lead with a date, but are not sorted by date. I suggest that a medical history summary is like a medical resumé and that items listed by date should be sorted by date, newest to oldest. Beyond consistency, this has the added benefit of showing the progression of the patient's health and care. Sorting text items, like Contacts, alphabetically, makes sense. If sorting everything alphabetically, then lead with the text and put the dates after the text. A list presented date first, but sorted by text, at first appears unordered, then the sort becomes apparent and the reader has to backtrack to the dates after figuring out the order. People will figure it out , but you will make it a lot easier by being consistent, however you choose to do it.

Discharge date for multi-day visits

Mindsurfer — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 01:41:33 GMT

It would be nice to be able to track the discharge date and time for hospitalizations and other multi-day visits. Default discharge to same as visit date. Default discharge time to same as visit time if blank.

Section missing

RicardoSwe — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:50:55 GMT

Today when I opened my health record, the section "Encounters" is missing. I tried downloading a new demo copy. The section re-appeared. I ran the automatic sync and closed the app. When I reopened it, the Encounters section was again missing.

Summer Camp and Activities Form

Mindsurfer — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:45:57 GMT

This is a very useful snapshot of current medical information, useful for more than summer camp and school activities. Others have suggested renaming it. I think giving it a more generic name, like "Current Medical Brief" and providing for an optional, user-specified sub-title where the user might specify who it is for or its purpose, might increase its utility. Yes, it can be duplicated by filtering the Medical History Summary, but running this is more convenient, and if the title were more generic, would be useful to more people - people who aren't sending anyone to summer camp, but who need a brief report of current, active medical information.

Typo in balloon help

Mindsurfer — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:49:48 GMT

In the Views menu on the left of the screen, mouseover 'Planning' and a help balloon pops up. In this help text, the word 'example' is spelled 'exmaple.'

Scientific notation in test results?

Mindsurfer — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:39:11 GMT

I have a CBC drawn at least once a month. The WBC and some other results come back as very large numbers per liter, expressed in scientific notation (e.g., 7.0 10e9/L). How should results like these be entered (both the value itself and the unit of measure)?

Medication dose vs strength

Mindsurfer — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:30:07 GMT

I've been evaluating v3.0.1, and see from browsing the forum that the Medications section is undergoing a redesign. I've recently had a lot of hospital and new doctor visits. In my experience, both as an EMT and as a patient, the EMT's are happy if they get a list of medications, at all, much less actual doseage information. Doctors, on the other hand, whether in the ED or private practice, are interested in doseage.

The strength of the medication issued may only be indirectly associated with the doseage, and has as much to do with insurance and pharmacy requirements. For example, I was prescribed 6.25mg of metropolol tartrate PO daily. Insurance required that I get 25mg pills, because 25mg pills are less expensive than 12.5mg pills. So I was expected to quarter those pills to get my prescribed doseage. All the doctor is concerned with is that I'm getting 6.25mg/day, not with what form or strength the insurance company will pay for or what I have to do to get to the prescribed doseage.

Currently, the Strength field places a space to the left of the decimal point, if a decimal value is entered in the Strength field. Example: I'm prescribed 7.5mg of prednisone once daily. The pharmacy fills it as 2.5mg pills. I take 3 2.5mg pills, daily, to achieve the prescribed dose. When I put in a Strength value of 2.5, once the record is created, it shows up on screen and in reports as 2 .5, with a space added to the left of the decimal. The abbreviated string the program creates from the Dose, Strength, and frequency is confusing because it looks like this: "3 2 .5 QD". Don't know if it is just a display bug, or if a space is actually added to the Strength value, but it makes determining the doseage difficult. As someone else pointed out, it is much easier for someone to make a mistake either by math or misreading 3 2.5. It is harder to make a mistake or to misread if the dose is plainly displayed. Yes, the number and strength of pills are both important, and multiplied reflect the doseage, but a discreet value for the doseage is less likely to be misinterpreted. Perhaps the Dose needs to be stored in addition to the number, strength and frequency?

Recurring Treatment and the Calendar

Mindsurfer — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:45:26 GMT

I am a dialysis patient. I added a Treatment record for dialysis with a start date of 14 November 2017 - the date of my first acute dialysis - and no end date, because it is on-going on a regular schedule (in my case, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, unless I need to shift the schedule or add an extra treatment for some reason). I expected that I would link every discreet dialysis Visit to that one Treatment record, since it is current and on-going. At the time, I did not know that Treatments show up on the Calendar, and that current on-going treatments show up on every date in the Calendar.

I can see why Treatments show up on the Calendar. There are treatments that are continuous through a period of time, and that do not require a Visit to a facility, so it can make sense for those to show up as a daily item in the Calendar. There are also treatments that recur on a periodic basis that do no occur daily, for which a daily entry on the Calendar would not be accurate. It also doesn't seem like it should be necessary to clutter the Treatment records with separate, otherwise identical Treatment records for each Visit.

Recurring Visits, on the other hand, do warrant separate Visit records for each Visit, because there may be things that happen during a Visit that differ from one Visit to the next, even for the same treatment. For example, I have a lab that is drawn during a dialysis visit that only happens on the first Thursday of the month. I have an iron sucrose injection that happens weekly on Thursdays, and an injection that normally happens every other Thursday, but sometimes happens on Tuesdays.

As another example, after my transplant, it was determined that the organ was positive for cytomegalovirus (CMV) while I was CMV negative, so I had to undergo 8 IV treatments over 4 weeks on Mondays and Thursdays, with each treatment being a two-hour visit to the transplant clinic.In this case, it wasn't an open-ended series of treatments like dialysis, having a definite beginning and ending point and a specified number of visits.

You know best how your data model supports Treatments and Visits. I suggest that, in order to accurately reflect recurring treatments that happen on an other than daily basis, Treatments need to support nth calendar day of the month (1st of every month), nth day of the week in the month (1st Thursday of the month, or 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month, etc.), weekly on particular days of the week (every Monday and Thursday), as well as daily.Not sure what would need to happen regarding dates. Recurring treatments could have a definite end date, like the CMV example, above, or could be until until the end of time, like dialysis.

Emergency Card suggestions

Mindsurfer — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 20:31:16 GMT

I realize that the Emergency Card, by definition, can't include everything; still, I would like to suggest a couple of items for consideration.

Devices. ED staff, and personnel supporting the ED (anesthesiology, radiology, etc.) may not need to know about every device and appliance one has, but they do need to know you have a pacemaker or ICD, artificial joints and other metal implants, dentures and dental implants. Preferably, they should know this before they let the pacemaker get close enough to an industrial magnet to cause it to shut down, and before they intubate for surgery. As with the other information already on the card, I think Devices should be filterable information included on the Emergency Card, for situations when you can't speak for yourself.

Other Urgent Information. The Emergency Card currently provides for freeform text to be appended to the end of the report. I think there needs to be a way to include information that needs to be at the top. Information that should be explicit rather than deduced from other information on the card. If one is on dialysis, care providers need to know what kind of access you have and which arm not to use for taking blood pressure and for IV's. If you have a pacemaker or ICD implanted, care providers need to know that, especially if Devices aren't included on the card (subcutaneous ICD's are not as obvious as the outline of an ICD just below the collarbone). I'm sure there are other pieces of information that one might want care providers to know, ideally before they render treatment.

The Emergency Card is already useful, as is. Correcting the truncation problem drix pointed out in the "Larger Emergency Card" thread, adding Devices, and other critical information at the top of the front of the card would make it better than any other Emergency Card out there.

Feature suggestion: List visits (relationships) in sorted order; provide a method for sorting all types of relationships

dealio — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:59:57 GMT

For example on the concern that I'm looking at now there are 5 related visits that I linked the concern to. I'm sure that I created the relationships for the concern well after the actual visit because I didn't have this software when I had the visits, so the relationships were probably not created in the order they actually happened. No matter. The Visits section under relationships lists all 5 visits, but they are not listed in any apparent logical order, certainly not by date of the visit, which is what I would expect. There is also no apparent way to sort them into any kind of order, for example, as mentioned by visit date (allowing for either ascending or descending date order), or by provider (all visits to an ophthalmologist versus the optician or another ophthalmologist) or by visit type (all Checkup Examinations listed together). I've noticed that the same issue exists not only for visits, but also for Notes, Treatments, Medications. It appears to be true in general for any relationship. Adding a method to sort these by relevant fields (certainly by date at least, with ascending and descending options) would make finding information easier.

Suggestion for a new feature

dealio — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 12:49:02 GMT

Often when I'm working with the app, I'm focused on getting information recorded in the the app, and not so much on reporting. But getting information out is important when I want to visit a new doctor and must explain medical history. Its also helpful sometime even with Drs that I currently already see, as they either forget what I've told them before, or their notes are incomplete or just wrong, or they don't have the information accessible at the moment.

My suggestion is two-part:
Part One:

create a panel (or a series of panels, whatever is required to accomplish this idea) to display and allow editing of a timeline of event.
On the panel, user selections for creating a timeline might be by "Concern (condition or sign or symptom)" or by "Activity".
Give the user the option to display the timeline of events for the selected concern either graphically from left to right using scrolling to allow enough room, or in tabular format in either ascending or descending date order.
Include hyperlinks on the timeline that when clicked take you to the detailed record of the item clicked (say, a visit to a particular doctor, or to test results on a certain date).
Include filtering on the timeline to allow the user to specify the timeframe for the timeline, and to select what items to include on the timeline (for example, check box for visits, tests, treatments, and journal entries, but not expenses, notes)
For items included on the timeline that are what I'll call "big text" items, meaning they consume a lot of space due to the amount of text (like journal entries), perhaps put just the datetime stamp and the title (or first few words) of the item on the timeline and allow the user to click on a hyperlink to open the item.
Allow the addition of items on the timeline

Part Two:

Create reports that mirrors the timeline formats above so that they can be printed or saved in PDF format when that is needed.
For the "big text" items mentioned above, print them the same way (datetime stamp and title), but on separate pages, include the full text of the item. So for example, if notes are not included in the timeline, then all notes on the printed list would appear in the tabular format mentioned above with datetime first and the first few words of the note. Then on a separate page, ALL notes would be listed by ascending or descending order (same as report), and on another page(s), ALL journal entries that are included on the timeline are printed similarly, so that all notes are printed together, then a new page is started and all journal notes are printed on the new page(s)

HealthFrame v3 is great improvement - some suggestions/questions

dealio — Mon, 16 May 2016 13:36:06 GMT

Great new update to Healthframe. Version 3 is a definite improvement. I only slowly began using the app in version 2 because it's daunting to start, and given the last update time, I wasn't sure of the long-term viability of the company nor of its priority for this important application. May I say it is one of the best attempts I've seen to integrate all health information and make it accessible, tracked and available for use. Just what the medical industry needs - doctors certainly don't do this well, so its up to us to take charge of our own records. Bravo for such a great start!

Some areas for improvements/suggestions:
- the date filter for visits does not work. I tried filtering on several time periods up to 20 years, all of which should have shown some visits, but no visits showed until I selected All or manually specify a range.
- there doesn't appear to be a way to filter the visits by concern or by activity, which would be helpful. All visits are lumped together, dental with medical, eye, etc, so that its difficult sorting through which visit is important for the moment. If there were a filter by concern, or by activity, this would allow showing only the visits that are related to a specific issue, which is how I tend to use the app - when I'm doing updates on a particular issue or concern.
- on pages where there are expandable sections, it would be nice to have some graphic appear next to sections that actually have some data in them, like you do with the relationships section. Makes it easier to tell where you've put data. Of course you can always expand all sections, but a simple graphic would be a nice indicator of where you need to look and may remind me of what I've left out missing.
- the form for entering a doctor is inconsistent in allowing periods and commas, for example for Dr. John Q. Public, D.D.S. It tends to strip these special characters out. Then if you use the filter to sort by last name, DDS becomes the last name instead of the actual last name (that would be "Public" in the example above).
- the ability to add attachments is GREAT! I can put PDF files of records that I can't otherwise add to the database, so that they're still available. One issue with this capability is how it inconsistently uses the confusing field called "Documentation" which appears to be used as a description field. The words placed in the Documentation field do not consistently appear when the URL is saved.
- when entering contacts, there's no apparent way to associate a telephone number with a particular address for examples, for companies that have multiple addresses. I "cheat" and use the "Extension" field to add comments like "Elmira office" and then I name the location below "Elmira office"
- a few additional phone types would be helpful too: "After Hours", "Emergency", "Preferred", "Appointments", "Main" (instead of Work)
- another feature that would be nice is the ability to segregate types of care such as the ability to filter medical records to show only those that are related to dental records, or vision (eye) records, or medical records. Then within that capability, the ability to filter by concern or by activity along with the ability to report all (or selected) records on a particular concern. These combined capabilities would have allowed me to print records for doctors who wanted to review a medical condition of mine for a second opinion. I find when doctors see a lot of paper work, they tend not to read it. Reports that mix that include all care lumped together would be superfluous to them, and I fear, not used.

Questions:
1) are there plans to provide an iOS app that complements the software that would allow the ability to carry your medical records with you. This capability would allow for more accurate & easier data tracking as you see doctors on visits or set appointments with them. An iOS app could also then interact with the iOS calendar to set appointments from within the app. The app could also use the Health app to store/collect/report on health data. This would avoid double entry for the user. This could also allow the ability to import existing calendar appointments as visits in the app.
2) are there plans to integrate the application with Outlook on the desktop? Some of the same benefits mentioned in Q1 above become available if you do.

2 posts disappear from the forum - #1794, #1795

dealio — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 16:44:40 GMT

Today I was updating records in HealthFrame and triggered the conditions that create one of the issues I wrote a post about not long ago, regarding the organization/sorting of relationships. I came to this forum to update the post because I found (one set of) the conditions that demonstrate the problem. I couldn't find my post to update it. I searched my browser history for the past 7 days and found the posts, so I know that I visited them within the last week. They are

Feature suggestion: List visits (relationships) in sorted order; provide a method for sorting all types of relationships
http://community.recordsforliving.com/forums/thread/1794.aspx

Feature suggestion - When adding a visit, list of providers is overwhelming, not organized
http://community.recordsforliving.com/forums/thread/1795.aspx

Copying the URLs above into the browser produced an error message that said:

Not Found: Forum Not Found

The forum you requested does not exist.

But I could find 1793 and 1796 just using the URL above, replacing the post number. Not sure what happened to the threads. I tried two different machines, same result. Hope they're not lost - I put a lot of thought into organizing those posts to make them clear and helpful.

The conditions to trigger the confusing list of visits occurred when I was on a Conditions panel and attempted to relate the condition to a visit that I hadn't created yet. So I clicked the Create New button and the Add Information Link dialog appeared. I set the Link To drop-down to Visit and the list appeared but seemed to be unorganized at first glance. But it's not. It is apparently sorted by descending date and the list includes both individuals and organizations; the individuals are sorted by last name, and the organizations are sorted by first name. I think this is what threw me - both organizations and individuals in the list and the different sorting methods, as I am only scanning the long list for who I want, not reading it. I think it might help make the existing organization of the list clearer and easier to use if the date were placed first on the line ahead of the name -- using zero padding for single-digit days and months, the date would always take the space of 10 characters, and even with a proportional font, the date would be consistently the same width. Follow the date with the individuals sorted in a group above (or below) the organizations sorted in a group.
For example:

02/07/2017 - Mrs Lucy Larsen, R.N.
02/05/2017 - Dr. Abel Cimano, M.D.
01/01/2017 - Mrs. Lucy Larsen, R.N.
01/01/2017 - Dr. John Smith, D.O.
01/01/2017 - Dr. Susan Zapato, Ph.D.
---------------------------------------------
02/07/2017 - Rite-aid Pharmacy
01/05/2017 - CVS Pharmacy
01/02/2017 - Periodontics Unlimited
01/02/2017 - Rehabilitation Clinic

and perhaps better would be this:

02/07/2017 - Larsen, Lucy, Mrs., R.N.
02/05/2017 - Cimano, Abel, Dr., M.D.
01/01/2017 - Larsen, Lucy, Mrs., R.N.
01/01/2017 - Smith, John, Dr., D.O.
01/01/2017 - Zapato, Susan, Dr., Ph.D.
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02/07/2017 - Rite-aid Pharmacy
01/02/2017 - Periodontics Unlimited
01/02/2017 - Rehabilitation Clinic

Currently, the example list above would look like this in the dialog box:

Mrs. Lucy Larsen (2/7/2017)
Rite-aid Pharmacy (2/7/2017)
Dr. Abel Cimano, M.D. (2/5/2017)
Periodontics Unlimited (1/2/2017)
Rehabilitation Clinic (1/2/2017)
Mrs. Lucy Larsen (1/1/2017)
Dr. John Smith, M.D. (1/1/2017)
Dr. Susan Zapato, Ph.D. (1/1/2017)

Feature suggestion - When adding a visit, list of providers is overwhelming, not organized

dealio — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:30:57 GMT

When adding a new visit to the database, and I click on Provider, I get a nicely organized menu that lists the most recent 5 providers I've used (very helpful!), followed by submenus Active Providers (Individuals), Active Providers (Organizations), All Individuals, All Organizations and menuitems to allow the addition of new providers (very helpful!). The issue is that each submenu presents the entire list of providers all together, unorganized. For example for the Active Providers (Individuals), the list includes ALL individual providers mixing doctors (M.D., O.D.) in with nurses (RN, LPN, NP, MSN), dentists, therapists, PA (physician's assistants), and other individuals whose titles don't show. And the list does not appear to be sorted in any logical fashion, which makes finding the individual I want tedious, and it increases the likelihood of my adding a duplicate of a person already in the list because I didn't notice them in the long long list (over 30 individuals, for example).
Suggestions:
1) It would be helpful at a minimum to sort the list by last name, but even better than that
2) if the list were sorted first by title then by last name that would make it easier to keep the dentists separated from the internal medicine doctors and so on so that I'm not sorting through irrelevant data to enter a visit.
Unlike the All Providers (Individuals) submenu, the All Providers (Organizations) submenu appears to be sorted by organization name, which is very useful. The addition that I would suggest for the list of organizations is
3) to segregate it by organization type: dental offices, hospitals and clinics, therapists, pharmacies, etc. The other aspect of these submenus that makes them tedious to use is they are very very long as I have many individuals of different types in the lists. Since the list is not organized, scrolling through it is a must, and there appears to be only one way to scroll through it - by using the arrow that appears at the ends of the lists. There are no scroll bars that would make jumping down the list quicker, and the mouse wheel does not work either.
4) Perhaps segregating the list into further submenus (doctors, nurses, hospitals, therapists, pharmacies, dentists, vision, etc.) would minimize or even eliminate the need for scrolling. It would certainly make finding the provider I want much quicker and easier.