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    I just downloaded the trial and am very happy with what I am seeing! It's very powerful in a simple to use way.

However, I have some suggestions on things that I think would make this product much more user friendly!

It would be amazing if there was a way that when you add custom feilds by dropping down to the "..." that it would automatically add any new custom items that you type in, or would give you the option of adding a custom feild perminantly to the list in some other way. This would be also useful for adding custom types of tests and test names not found in the preloaded list so you don't have to keep typing over and over the same thing.

Another thing that would be very useful is if there was a way to make the picture on the medical history report larger. Right now there is tons of space showing on the report around the image, but the image itself is pretty small.

Now my biggest issue. My schooling is in graphic design so I appreciate well laid out charts and graphs. I was happily surprised to see that your reports and charts are pretty nice looking (compared to others I've seen in other programs). HOWEVER! When I go to print my reports, such as the Medical History Summery it doesn't print how it looks on screen! Give me an option of printing it in the "pretty" way with the color blocks to help you view the tests scores so nicely! I LIKE how that looks! Instead I get a very simple, quite homely looking document that prints out almost all in black and white. Make that an option or a customization. I expected what I see on the screen to print and I'm very disapointed that it doesn't. Why spend all that time coding the program to make it look so nice if it doesn't print that nice? Ok..enough of my beef. :)

Just a few suggestions. I'll add more to this list if I think of any! :) Thanks for making a great product and please keep listening to your customers for improvements that could be made for the next version!

OK! A few other things I've found that I think def. need to be worked in the program.

I think that there needs to be a way to track the ranges associated with each specific lab test, like on the line where you put in the test and measurement. Also a way to flag if it was considered "high" "low" or "normal". Also if there could be a place on the test report that actually prints the ranges so that the doctors can reference that information easily. I will be handing over to my new doctor my medical history report, test report, etc, but will also have to make copies of all of the official lab tests to make sure that they have the ranges to reference. Adding these features would make it much easier to get all of the needed documentation to a new doctor in the future, and make it so all of my information is in one place so easy for me to find instead of having to reference journal enteries or pdf scans of the actual lab results sheets.

Thanks!

Welcome to the HealthFrame User Community forum and for your nice comments about HealthFrame. 

Thank you also for your feedback:

1. We've had some recent feedback on the forum from Robert, with regards to having HealthFrame 'learn' new visit types (such as 'workout').  We have forwarded that feedback to our development team and future versions should support increased user customization support, including the ability to add new list values.
2. Thank you for your suggestion to support larger image sizes - maybe even multiple images?
   
3. I have 'printed' to a PDF file the medical history summary for Susan Marie Taylor (sample PHR) and attached it to this post.  Is the PDF output similar to what you see when you print to your printer?  If not, do you have a PDF print driver?  If you do, could you print the same sample PHR and post your generated PDF to the forum?  If you don't have one, please consider downloading one such as http://www.pdf995.com/download.html and follow the steps above. 
   

In a color printer, HealthFrame should be printing pretty similarly to what is shown on the screen, with some variance for color quality - depending on the printer.

Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback.  We truly appreciate our users' feedback and we work hard to meet our users' needs with every new release.

We look forward to your suggestions!
Support Team

Hello, again! 

It seems that you may have read the recent exchange with Brian where we suggested the use of journals to help track normal ranges.

Interestingly enough, while replying to a different post (also from Brian) with regards to tracking time of measurement, I thought of yet a different way that you could track ranges with HealthFrame.

If you would like to track status (high, low, normal), as well as normal ranges (low value, high value), consider adding that data to the test measurement.  If you do that, the information will show up in the medical history summary (see image below).

Thanks again for your feedback!
Support Team