Soula Mantalvanos on The Health Design Podcast
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!
The New Happy
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, it’s more like minute-to-minute), making positive choices can make a difference in your day. Scrolling and deleting dull media is negative! So, our founder put The New [...]
Painaustralia, Our Newest Friend
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 most significant issues affecting the majority of people, such as misdiagnosis and limited access to necessary care and support. For this, we require policy game-changers. […]
Let’s Be Brave Together
A few months ago and just appointed as CEO of Painaustralia, I was chatting to Giulia, who was making time to connect with people living with pain; our next step would be an interview for some media. Instead, I received an awful message. Giulia is a tough cookie, watch our chat and feel that fire in her! And she’ll be using that fire to put this awful experience to great use – raising funds for So Brave and Painaustralia as she shaves her hair on 31 July. I want us all to get behind her.
My Health Story Welcomes More Good Days – More Empowerment for Individuals living with Fibromyalgia
My Health Story Welcomes More Good Days – More Empowerment for Individuals living with Fibromyalgia
Electronic Medical Records – all the rage at the Digital Health Festival
The Digital Health Festival (DHF) was mega. Australia’s largest digital health transformation event brought together the entire health eco-system (hospitals, primary & allied care, aged care, pharmacy, research and policy). My Health Story (MHS) Founder Soula Mantalvanos and codirector Theo Mantalvanos enjoyed every minute of connecting, learning, aligning, and plugging MHS to a digital-health-famished audience. Their standout sentiment aligned with each attendee’s shared mission to improve the quality of care. MHS was in the best place to boast a unique approach to self-managed care for chronic conditions and to share its goal to position people as data stewards of their health information. That vision couldn’t [...]