Juhan's HealthCard

Prototype v10.
I'm going to my PCP on Tuesday... I'm trying it out again with him.

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birdahonk says:

looks awesome! the only problem, dr. offices will hate it because now they'll have to honor their appt. times -- they can't stall by making you fill out that damn medical history form for the buhgillionth time...
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

juhansonin says:

Here's the goofy tidbit:
I went to for a doctor visit on Wednesday. The admin nurse asked for my health card as soon as I walked up to the desk. Knowing full well she was asking for my Harvard card, I plunked this version down on her desk. She didn't blink. She took all my info from my HealthCard and didn't hand me another piece of paper to fill out (other than the $10 co-pay credit card signature).

My doctor looked at it... and was comparing my past blood work and cholesterol levels. I took one of the BioSafe cholesterol tests a month ago (http://www.ebiosafe.com/) and used that as ammunition. All he asked for in the card shown above was a family history section.

Finally, I went to sign up for a physical therapy session and again I plunked down this card instead of the bland crappy Harvard Pilgrim one. This time the nurse photocopied it for her records... no blinking, no "WTF is this", just "Thanks Mr Sonin."

Weird.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

joško says:

this is very neat
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

tintin5021 says:

is this going to be a product?
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

juhansonin says:

We're prototyping the HealthCard with a local Boston clinic. We also hope to move this kind of display to an open source EHR (Tolven) in the coming year.

All the new EHR/PHRs are using sparklines and trending viz... which is good. I haven't seen one which is beautiful (not that the HCard is great, but it's a good start).

Next steps:
* HCard for a 10, 30, 50, and 80 year old (they will all be different in terms of how to tell the health story)
* HCard on a credit-card sized card, double-sided... (with data chip)
* Using Tolven as the persistence layer... actually hooking up to an EHR.
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

See-ming Lee 李思明 SML says:

This is very interesting. Where did you get all the data from?

Btw, I'm stunned that you have to expend 4000 calories per day! Why do you have so much calories to spend? You should play more chess and do more math, it drains calories :)

Btw, I discovered a taggable wiki server last week. It's called Wikidot. It's extensible and you can style it with templates. It produces xhtml pages and import/export rss feeds. On top of that, it allows for privacy controls as well as object embeds, Flickr/YouTube extension and other goodies.

I am obviously looking for things like that in the market, if you know of something better, let me know.

Btw, I was asked to take down the MCA stuff by MasterCard, that's the only reason why it's no longer there anymore!

Cheers,
See-ming
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

juhansonin says:

This data is REAL. It's my data. I don't want to design w/fake data. If I see Lorem Ipsum in another designer's comp, I'll puke.

Wikidot - I'll take a peek. We've been looking for a good wiki service! Any other suggestions?
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

YAP S S says:

I am the admin for "Every Day Information Design" group. I would like to invite you to post this Healthcard to the group. Thanks a million
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

Elinesca says:

A bit alarming that nobody caught it. But that said, it does look very authoritative, and who would spend all that time faking a health card...? :)
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

gchiu2 says:

Juhan, I am surprised that your heath care professionals didn't question it ... I would have. With those couple of spelling mistakes you have in the test names, I would have wondered about the validity of the rest of the data.

To my mind, the choice of tests you have chosen to display is also a little odd ie. not particularly clinically important.

But hey, I like the layout :)
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

juhansonin says:

Agreed on a few parts of the testing data being funky for everyday health metrics. It does get to the big numbers quickly; the blood test data needs massaging. These specific blood tests are more important to me rather than the general pop.

We have an updated version which I'll post in the next week that aims for everyday and yearly health cycles...
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

gchiu2 says:

Hey, it's better than Lorem Ipsum! :)

I like the way you can see the total cholesterol mirroring your BMI and weight but if your waist circumference is static, where on earth is it all going??

Homatocrit => Hematocrit
Cratinine => Creatinine

With no medical history and no medications, I think it 's pointless displaying all those blood results. Why waste valuable real estate with normal results??

Any reason why the elevated C02 lacks a sparkline?

I'm curious though as to how you plan to scale your card. I have patients on 30 medications, and 15 different diagnoses. I'm going to need quite a few cards for them!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

gchiu2 says:

In other words, you're using fairly normal data to display a heath card which to my mind is only really useful for those patients who have multiple heath issues ... which brings us back to your point of the need to use real world but also relevant data.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

mccready says:

gchiu2, I think you are confused about some of the fundamental basic tenets of what Juhan is attempting to do here.

Juhan wants to provide a shared view of the most common metrics associated with a patient's health. Further, he wants this view to be shared between healthcare providers and patients. It's not designed to be the clinical report that only the PCP can see. It's designed to actually provide both individuals with a clear presentation of the data, that both parties grock.

The selection of blood work tests is from physical examinations that the team took to vet some data. As far as the "why" on those specific tests, we are assuming that the healthcare providers in our area have vetted those correctly...

As far as your comment/question on static waist circumference... that's either a really good thing (32") and you need an "atta boy", or you are in the mongo-big screwed range, you need constant pain inflicted on you to remind you and your doctor that you are killing yourself with chow, and will be disproportionately taxing the healthcare system when you get diabetes.

However, I strongly suspect that the vast majority of people are trending to higher and higher numbers. If that's the case, it's just a question of the range on the graphic. Think years/decades, not weeks/months.

Bottom line, this design is for a shared understanding of the health of the masses, not the chronic sick. I think that a different view would be needed for that relatively small minority of people.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

gchiu2 says:

Mccready, Juhan has stated that he is bringing out a new version this week. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

I think it's a good starter for providing a synopsis of a user's health as it stands, but less helpful for communicating the state of health to health professionals.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

Selphie2009 says:

“A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.”

Joan Welsh quotes

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Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

oliloli says:

may i suggest one little graphic detail:
- regarding the back side of the actual health card, you deal with a larger quantity of data, therefore i would suggest to emphasize the 6 paragraph sections below the line, with a background shift for each chapters (grey/white) in order to keep better readability, and keeping line spacing regular.
the sections more clearly separated and faster to indentify in a single eye blink. may be for V2.0.
hope i explained clearly the description of my graphic suggestion.
you might give better value for white space real estate on the card.
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

seanlandry says:

Juhan, curious about the choice of format. I wonder if a 8.5x11 would be better since it would be easily printable for US folks. I'm also thinking if you printed the patient's name along the edge of the card, it would make for easy filing. Something hospitals are notoriously slow at.
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

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