1. A Step Ahead: MyHealthArchive’s New Disease
Management Features
New dynamic features which have been built in to
MyHealthArchive which present an exciting and
unmatched opportunity for patients and their health care
providers. We have augmented an already sophisticated personal health record which
has the potential to become static and transformed it into an active personal health
information management system.
MyHealthArchive now provides the opportunity for patients to gain significant ground in
maintaining their health, preventing the effects of disease and managing chronic illnesses such as
diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, asthma, heart disease and other illnesses which can impact quality
of life and health care costs associated with frequent doctor’s office visits, emergency room visits and
hospitalizations, and additional medications or treatments required to manage deterioration of health.
The most prominent model of disease management world-wide today is the payor-driven
disease management model which aims to reduce costs of high risk patients with chronic illnesses. The
typical strategy for managing a chronic disease primarily revolves around defining clinical protocols, patient
education and periodic monitoring of patient participation in their prescribed treatment plan and
retrospective review of clinical outcomes. This model of disease management is focused on short-term
management of high-risk patients; whereas, MyHealthArchive provides the technological means for patient-
centric disease management as a service designed for the patient and for significant return on investment
which comes from improved health, reduced system utilization and costs associated with illness, and
patient satisfaction. MyHealthArchive actually moves the patient from the periphery to the center of health
care augments patient participation and collaboration with health care providers. The effect induces
positive health behaviors and ultimately, long-term benefits, such as reduced morbidity and better quality of
life.
The new Disease Management tools are available to sponsoring organizations to enable
patients with MyHealthArchive Plus to improve their own understanding of their own health issues, and
empower them to reduce complications of illness or side effects of treatment. Built in to the Disease
Management tools are defined targets based on national standards (such as blood pressure control,
control of hemoglobin A1C levels for diabetics) or customized targets, which can include weight loss,
nutrition management or exercise endurance targets.
Bi-directional information exchange is enabled through tethered portions of MyHealthArchive
which include the patient’s progress record, journals, performance logs and graphs, enabling
communication between patients and their health care providers escalate to the point of requiring
emergency medical care. Now, physicians and health care providers can monitor treatment progress,

2. respond to patient’s concerns and align disease management protocols with patients to enable a more
proactive approach toward reaching health targets and improving clinical outcomes.
As a tool which goes beyond retrospective review of health claims, MyHealthArchive helps
provide patients and their physicians and health care providers the ability to gain insight into health
improvement and provide return on investment through better health, improved health behaviors and
reduced morbidity associated with increased health care costs.
‘Report Cards’ can be generated quarterly for patients which can
measure whether disease management targets and clinical
outcomes were achieved and can help direct patients and their
health care providers toward focused areas of improvement.
Data can also be aggregated for populations of patients to help
direct system-wide efforts to improve the design or content of disease management protocols, staffing to
support patients, augment patient educational offerings, or redesign of decision-support tools to provide
proactive guidance to patients who develop exacerbation of their illness.
MyHealthArchive’s Disease Management tools augment personalized care which is the core of
patient-centric disease management. PatientCentral Technologies through MyHealthArchive provides
Disease Management tools for patients which can improve their quality of life, creating an experience for
patients and their families where they feel much comfortable and confident in coping with their disease.
Key Features (all Disease Management features must be Sponsor-designed or Sponsor-approved):
• Chronic disease management protocols which incorporate the patient into the plan of care
• Patient education tools about chronic disease which reinforce patient understanding of illness and
enable behavior modification
• Decision support tools which mitigate deterioration of health and health care emergencies
• Ability to tether portions of MyHealthArchive for the benefit of communication of treatment
progress between patients and health care providers
• Templates which establish treatment targets
• Sophisticated tools for logging performance
• Ability to associate a variety of progress parameters using logs and graphs to help provide insight
into treatment efficacy
• Nutrition and exercise activity tools which help enable compliance with dietary recommendations
• Patient satisfaction survey to help provide insight into Disease Management program
performance and opportunities for improvement
• Individual patient Report Card which measures performance against treatment targets
• De-identified, aggregated reporting capability for populations of patients to assess the impact of
MyHealthArchive on patient participation, clinical progress and outcomes, health and quality of
life.
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