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 [...]
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!
Seeking mental health support when living with an invisible illness is essential to the care and well-being process. Finding high-quality and accessible mental health support tailored to your needs can be difficult. Wise Psychology, My Health Story’s (MHS) latest friend, could be your answer to this problem! Chronic illness has a substantial psychological and emotional component, including stress, anxiety, guilt, grief, shame, and depression. People living with invisible chronic conditions can be left feeling their illness is ‘all [...]
Self-management is hard, chronic illness is overwhelming. Chronic illness robs you of your independence and control, leaving you feeling defeated and mentally and physically drained. Add to the endless appointments required; now, we also have to be considerate of healthcare systems under pressure. Guess who gets the short end of the stick? We pay with our lives. Perhaps healthcare systems were destined to burst their stitches because healthCARE was never built to care for people; it was made to keep people relying on it. That's not care. Can taking more ownership of our health make a difference?
In this 15-minute Vimeo, founder of My Health Story, Soula Mantalvanos, discusses how she believes visualising the personal health experience can lead to better care and understanding. Soula combines her years of living with chronic pain and her professional creative communication experience to advocate for a better quality of care. […]
(IMAGE: Judy Darling prints her health story via the website) An exciting new feature is helping MHS users communicate their unique health situations more easily during appointments. My Health Story (MHS) has always prioritised the safe sharing of user health stories. The current MHS Access Link function effectively tracks information for users who like to monitor whose checking in to their health story/stories, and when and how often. Over the past few months, some user feedback sent to [...]
(Story from MHS Founder's blog pudendalnerve.com.au) I'm a proud buttercup. Despite my many ongoing limitations, I feel I've come a long way. And today, I have a huge milestone to celebrate with you. But first, shall I reflect? The earliest evidence of being able to again participate in life was the posting of my first Instagram. It was July 2011, a few months before I began this website. I remember Instagram forming a lifeline to my creativity when my phone and a glass of water were too heavy for me. After Instagram, more abilities began to very slowly unravel. I began to sit a little longer, think broader, and make a little more. I started building ideas a little grander and executing them. Over the past 15 years, I have watched myself rise above the injury that changed my body in 2007. I have made a book and a short documentary, became an advocate, contributed to a medical journal and helped with medical GP training. And now the triumphs...
Hello from the rebranded PainTrain My Health Summary – now known as, My Health Story (MHS). I couldn't be more thrilled to be writing this post after a very big few months of rebranding and redevelopment. But it's not over yet with the MHS App still a couple of weeks away. Like most magnificent leaps and bounds, the transition from PainTrain My Health Summary (PainTrain MHS) to MHS found the team stumbling on some administrative complexities... and, we do expect a couple more bumps – but we are mostly there! So what do you need to do?
My Health Story presents a way for individuals to communicate their experiences and manage their healthcare better. For healthcare practitioners, it presents an opportunity to diversify your care offering and influence positive behaviour to the overall patient journey. My Health Story takes a holistic view of each unique lived experience and understands that patients are more than their disease. Home — Reference the handy links — Reset your password — Edit your Health Story names and descriptions [...]
There's a lot not to like about 2021, but the team at PainTrain MHS are focused on progress, growth and living and learning. That means we look at the takeaways of experiences past to direct us on the way forward. There is much to look forward to – expectations of better healthcare are high. That's very much due to the recent announcement that Telehealth is here to stay. Of course, every person living with a chronic illness [...]
