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MHS has moved to a dedicated HIPAA-compliant hosting environment with HIPAA Vault

2026-01-15T10:03:45+11:00January 10, 2026|Blog|

My Health Story (MHS) is excited to share a major behind-the-scenes milestone that strengthens our platform’s privacy and security — and lays the foundation for future growth, partnerships, and trust. Over the past few weeks, we’ve successfully been working towards shifting MHS to a dedicated HIPAA-compliant hosting environment with HIPAA Vault — a provider specialising in secure WordPress hosting for healthcare applications. This upgrade reflects our commitment to protecting your sensitive data and keeping MHS at the forefront [...]

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Bupa Partnership with MoreGoodDays® – Helping You get Passed Persistent Back Pain

2025-11-28T15:10:09+11:00November 28, 2025|Blog, Education, Health Management|

MoreGoodDays: A science-backed back pain management and recovery program from the comfort of home. Bupa has partnered with My Health Story Friends, MoreGoodDays® to help our eligible customers* with persistent back pain reduce pain, move more freely, and feel more like themselves again. And this is HUGE news because it means members may be eligible to receive the 8-week MoreGoodDays® Program (delivered by MoreGoodDays®) FREE: Up to 8 video or call consultations~ with physiotherapists [...]

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The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic & Sexual Pain: Offering a free 30-minute introductory call

2025-11-28T14:39:53+11:00November 28, 2025|Blog, Education, Health Management|

My Health Story Friend, The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic and Sexual Pain is a non-clinical education and advocacy initiative dedicated to making invisible pain visible. And to help My Health Story followers, they are generously offering a free private 30-minute introductory call. Founded by retired gynecologist and telehealth educator, Robert J. Echenberg, MD FACOG (Dr E), The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic and Sexual Pain empowers patients and providers affected by chronic pelvic, genital, and sexual pain through evidence-based [...]

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Mandy Mercuri: An Introduction to Pain Reprocessing Therapy and Somatic Tracking

2025-11-28T14:13:07+11:00November 28, 2025|Blog, Friends of MHS, Health Management|

Guest blog by Mandy Mercuri Mindfulness & Pain Recovery Coach & My Health Story Advisory Member If you’re living with ongoing musculoskeletal pain, it’s completely understandable to feel frustrated, confused, or even hopeless at times. Many of us spend years being told to “manage” pain rather than understanding the root cause of why it’s happening or how to help it change. The good news? Pain can change. And today, I’d love to introduce [...]

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Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025, a huge success

2025-11-02T12:58:32+11:00November 2, 2025|Blog, Education, Events|

Literacy For Life’s Health Festivals aim to create spaces where everyone feels welcome — no matter age, background, or experience. Whether it’s through expert talks, hands-on workshops, cooking demos, fitness sessions, or creative activities, the events are designed to make health approachable and engaging – and the Geelong Health Festival did exactly that. Whether you wanted to learn about fertility, fitness, chronic pain, physiotherapy or find helpful products to help you manage your health [...]

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Geelong Advertiser: Pain Turns into Runway Success Story

2025-11-02T12:55:18+11:00November 2, 2025|Blog, Media|

Misdiagnosed for more than four years after a 2007 accident, Soula and Theo Mantalvanos have fought on to develop a patient-driven health record system that is now an award winner, Cam Ward writes. The ingenuity that saw Soula and Theo Mantalvanos begin a new career after a devastating accident may soon be helping others facing a similar burden. The couple have run the Queenscliff Gallery for a decade, having been forced to give up their Melbourne graphic design [...]

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Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025

2025-09-21T13:45:22+10:00September 21, 2025|Blog, Education, Events|

Join My Health Story at Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025 Literacy For Life’s Health Festivals idea began with a simple belief: when people come together to share knowledge and talk openly about wellbeing, communities grow stronger. What began as a small local event has blossomed into a vibrant celebration of health, bringing together families, health professionals, and community leaders from all walks of life. Literacy For Life’s Health Festivals exit to create [...]

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Free Resource: Live PelvicSense Session With Evelyn Hecht

2025-07-10T11:43:21+10:00July 10, 2025|Blog, Education, Health Management|

My Health Story (MHS) friend, Evelyn Hecht (and a great comrade of the pelvic pain world), who created PelvicSense has an invitation for MHS followers. If you are experiencing persistent pelvic pain, urgency, or burning symptoms and need help learning more about these issues and how to manage them (yes,  you can!), then here’s a must-attend event for you. MHS Founder, Soula Mantalvanos, understands that these events can be difficult. ‘I’ve often sat and stared at the thing [...]

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My Health Story Wins Runway Incubator Cohort 16

2025-07-04T15:02:37+10:00July 4, 2025|Achievements, Blog, Health tech, Media|

It’s been an extraordinary 16 weeks participating in Runway’s incubator program. For My Health Story (MHS) founder Soula Mantalvanos and her partner, Theo, it was totally worth every minute of committing to learning, listening, studying, re-evaluating, reassessing, re-questioning, and enduring the moments of pain to reassure their vision for a global patient-driven health record. And reassurance they got, coming out as winners as judged by LaunchVic and Global Power Generation Australia of Runway’s Cohort [...]

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It’s Time For MHS to Pitch, And You’re Invited

2025-06-14T13:31:26+10:00June 14, 2025|Achievements, Blog|

The RunwayHQ Incubator has been a brilliant experience for founder Soula Mantalvanos and partner Theo Mantalvanos. Cohort 16 of the Incubator program is quite health-focused, with three other startups developing ideas for healthcare. My Health Story (MHS) fits in spectacularly, and each of the founders has been able to bounce off ideas and potentially plan ways to work together. The RunwayHQ Incubator's final event is a showcase where all startups present to investors. RunwayHQ approaches this moment [...]

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MHS is a patient-driven project aided by an advisory group of Healthcare Practitioners and consumers.
Stop repeating yourself and juggling health apps. With My Health Story, you can enjoy full sharing control and streamline your information to tailor your care.

Take control of your health – put yourself at the centre of your care with My Health Story.

Quicklinks

Health stories
— MHS Founder (chronic pain)
— Judy Darling (aged care & stroke)
— Flora (Fibromyalgia)

Main Menu

— Home
— Blog
— Sign up

— Key People
— Our Story
— Advocacy
— The Hurting Strings film
— About MHS
— MHS Videos

— MHS Friends
— Research
— Privacy & T’s & C’s
— Account Deletion
— Contact

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