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Come and see My Health Story at the Digital Health Festival May 7 – 8, 2024

2024-04-26T10:51:03+10:00April 26, 2024|Blog, Media|

The Digital Health Festival 2024 (DHF24) is just days away, and the My Health Story (MHS) team is getting ready to meet the health industry's movers and shakers. Will you be there? The event is 90% sold out. The DHF24 is all about the future of healthcare – that's why we're there.  As a start-up, MHS is there to present to the healthcare industry and meet possible partners. What is MHS looking for specifically? MHS wants to meet with leaders interested in patient-centred care and patient empowerment. To meet with groups, services, and employees in the healthcare industry that can implement MHS into healthcare, and by that, we mean:

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My Health Story at the Digital Health Festival in 2024

2023-12-27T13:51:13+11:00December 27, 2023|Achievements, Blog, Health tech, Media|

The Digital Health Festival (DHF) is Australia's most important health transformation event. DHF is where health leaders meet to learn new skills, assess the latest solutions, network and form partnerships. It's also where they get the chance to meet a select group of 'trailblazing startups' who are out to revolutionise healthcare. My Health Story is thrilled to be accepted as one of these trailblazers presenting at the DHF24 event held 7 - 8 May at the Melbourne Convention [...]

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NEW My Health Story Lite

2023-12-27T13:51:35+11:00December 27, 2023|Blog, Health Management, Using My Health Story|

My Health Story (MHS) has seen many growth spurts in its start-up time. Today we release yet another! MHS is thrilled to introduce a new subscription package for users who want to use MHS more 'litely'. Enter MHS Lite! We learned that not everyone required their information to sync between the MHS website and handheld devices. Not everyone was necessarily interested in keeping lengthy details, so we narrowed down the main areas of MHS [...]

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Soula Presents at the RACGP Chronic Disease Workshop

2023-11-18T11:09:02+11:00November 18, 2023|Advocacy, Blog, Education, Health Management|

My Health Story founder, Soula Mantalvanos, was recently invited to share her valuable expertise for GP training, once again highlighting the significance of lived experience for chronic pain management education. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) GP training session, ‘An approach to non-cancer pain,’ was hosted by Dr Paul Grinzi on Wednesday, 15 November 2023, in Melbourne. Soula’s 20-minute presentation included details of her 4.5-year medical odyssey that led to her chronic illness – one she believes could have been completely avoided with educational training sessions such as the one she was presenting at. Soula began her presentation by stating the vision and mission that have driven her advocacy and to becoming the founder of pudendalnerve.com.au and My Health Story: Understanding the unique lived experience is critical to tailored care and relieving the global burden of disease.

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Soula’s Greatest Tips for Chronic Health Management

2023-09-26T12:39:45+10:00September 26, 2023|Blog, Health Management|

My Health Story founder, Soula Mantalvanos, has offered some helpful tips since beginning her advocacy in 2011 and launching pudendalnerve.com.au. We've collated some of Soula's most popular blogs on easing the pressure when sitting and travelling and included her most recent discovery about the effects of inflammation, which is proving to be a critical factor in helping with the management of any chronic health issue.

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The Hurting Strings – An Artist’s Story of Pain

2023-09-18T12:36:25+10:00September 18, 2023|Advocacy, Blog, Media|

The Hurting Strings, an award-winning documentary was created by Australian filmmaker Peter Lamont in 2014 and has had thousands of views resonating with so many people living with invisible illness. It is a little sad that the film still has so much meaning, in fact, it's still relevant so many years later. I truly wish it wasn't. 

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Is Symptom Tracking Your Road Map to Better Days?

2023-09-18T11:41:54+10:00September 18, 2023|Blog, Health Management, Using My Health Story|

Is Symptom Tracking Your Road Map to Better Days? If you're living with fibromyalgia, you'll know first-hand how the experience forces you into constant symptom tracking. Imagine if you can let go of nagging details by being confident your symptoms are well-documented, in a safe place and being used as your road map to better days. This is possible!

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Soula Mantalvanos on The Health Design Podcast

2023-08-07T13:17:49+10:00August 7, 2023|Blog, Media|

The Journal of Health Design Australia presents The Health Design Podcast (THDP) with Moyez Jiwa, who recently invited My Health Story's (MHS) founder, Soula Mantalvanos, to chat. THDP aims to feature interviews with the world's leading health design experts, including clinicians, designers, patients, authors and researchers. Their motto: Better health by design. In the podcast, Soula discusses her health experience, the problems that inspired her to build a health summarising resource, and why she believes it can help individuals receive the tailored care they need.  Listen up!

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The New Happy

2023-08-07T13:18:04+10:00August 7, 2023|Blog, Health Management|

There are many motivational accounts on social media, but one of My Health Story’s (MHS) faves is The New Happy. And that’s because of its brightness and colourful and uplifting graphics and messages. And it’s free. The New Happy also provides small bite-size doses, which are more manageable for people with chronic illnesses who might experience brain fog and other symptoms that make absorbing information tricky.  In addition to limiting the communications received on a day-to-day basis (actually, [...]

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Painaustralia, Our Newest Friend

2023-08-03T14:23:05+10:00August 3, 2023|Blog, Friends of MHS|

We love the saying, ‘It takes a village’. And although it relates to raising children, the belief that an entire community must provide for and interact positively to manage something important and achieve greatness resonates perfectly with the Friends of My Health Story (MHS). With this positive statement, we welcome Painaustralia as our newest MHS Friend. Living with a chronic illness can make it challenging to access the right healthcare team and resources. Even harder is addressing the [...]

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