Personal Health Desk description
Personal Health Desk is an electronic personal health record for individuals and families

Personal Health Desk is an electronic personal health record for individuals and families.

The application is both complex but easy to use.

Here are some key features of "Personal Health Desk":

· Maintain a detailed medical history...
· Note allergies, problems, diagnoses, previous procedures, regular drugs and previously prescribed drugs, immunizations, tests and results and relevant documents and pictures
· Add a record of health events...
· Store health event notes, vital signs, problems, symptoms, signs, diagnosis, procedures done, treatment received, tests done, and drugs prescribed
· Print subsets of your medical record for health professional visits or for emergencies...
· Print summaries of vital measurements e.g. blood pressure, glucose, temperature, weight, INR, peak flow, or cholesterol
· Print a wallet sized summary of your medical history and emergency information
· Use a variety of tools to store data and assess your health...
· Mark skin lesions on a picture of the body
· Joint mannequin for those persons suffering from joint disease
· Point and click symptom and sign selection
· View lists of possible diagnoses given the selected symptoms and signs (use this feature with advice from a medical practitioner)
· View suggested tests given a previously made diagnosis
· Child development indicators are automatically shown for children, but a more detailed list can be viewed
· Body mass index and ideal weight calculations
· Growth charts for children
· Medical tools such as cardiac risk calculator, mood tracker, prostate score, autism screening (use these tools with advice from a medical practitioner)
· Use Windows XP's built in speech recognition system to dictate notes
· Work with your medical practitioner to develop health maintenance and disease management plans...
· Health maintenance plans can be created (or use included examples) e.g. for cancer prevention, for diabetes mellitus management
· Disease management plans can be created together with your medical practitioner. Store these plans for reference e.g. asthma management plans
· Maintain a reminder list to help you remember upcoming events or to help you keep to your health plans
· You can place the entire Personal Health Desk program on a USB flash memory key and run it from that key to make your data portable
· Your data is kept in Microsoft Access 2003 format, which makes the data easily accessible to you even without using Personal Health Desk.


Limitations:

· 50 runs limit