Introducing the Hepatitis C Tracker

[Med Help]

Hi,

We're pleased to announce the Hepatitis C tracker, the next in a series of Personal Health Applications (PHAs) geared towards helping our members with keep track of their health metrics, symptoms, treatments, test results and events. We developed the Hepatitis C tracker with feedback from several of the members from this community and we're excited to be able to make it available. The tracker will allow you to keep track of your daily treatments and symptoms specific to Hepatitis C.

You can access the Hepatitis C Tracker by clicking on the "Trackers" link at the top of the community, or on the "Trackers" tab on My MedHelp.

We plan on adding more functionality to the Hepatitis C Tracker over the next few weeks and would love to get your suggestions and feedback. If you want to track a specific treatment or event, let us know. Please post your comments in the MedHelp Suggestions community, accessible via My Shortcuts.

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[Marcia2202]

RBC, hemoglobin, RBC, iron, ... I think all the important ones which have to be monitored while on tx should be listed, as it determines, when we should be on rescue drugs or not.

Marcia

[NashPred]

Suggestion for Treatment check boxes:

IFN
PEG-IFN Alfa2a
PEG-IFN Alfa2b
Ribavirin
Trial medication
Herbal treatment
Have not started treatment
Have finished treatment

I like to see the correlation between alfa2a and alfa2b and symptoms....as well as success rates.

MH….should we post suggestions here, or use the suggestion tab on the tracker?

[NashPred]

Nevermind my last question of where to post suggestions. I just re-read the original post.

[meki]

Yeah - it's definitely a GREAT step in the right direction.

Marcia  - THANKS mucho much for pointing that out!

Meki

[Marcia2202]

your welcome

[Med Help]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

NashPred - Feel free to post the suggestions here or in the MedHelp Suggestions community. If you have feedback, we'll try to find it wherever you post it.

We'll replace the current Pegylated Interferon with PEG-IFN Alfa2a and PEG-IFN Alfa2b. We'll also add Trial Medication as a treatment option. We probably won't be adding "Have Not Started Treatment" as we'll assume any chart that doesn't have treatments selected belong to people who have not started treatment. We can add an "Event" instead of a "Treatment" option for Finished Treatment.

Mirceani - The unit for viral load is millions IU/ml, so we support up to 100 million IU/ml. But you're right, we should add labels for all the units for all of our trackers, but in the meantime, you should still be able to track viral load. We'll look into changing the maximum for the other values.

Marcia2202 - Good catch on the spelling of "bilirubin". We'll get that fixed in the next release. As for the European values, I don't think these values are actually different. Even labs in the U.S. use different units of measurement. Some use g/L (which is the unit of measurement used by your lab) and some use g/dL (which is the unit of measurement used by the lab associated with one of our doctors). In order to convert your measurements from g/L to g/dL, just divide them by 10. As suggested by mirceani, we need to add the units of measurement to the data entry forms, so you all know what the units are. We'll also look into allowing you to enter data in other units of measurement (like g/L) and then calculating the correct conversions on our end. But in the meantime, just divide by 10 and you'll be able to use the tracker.

Meki - We'll add the request for blood count metrics (WBC, RBC, platelets, iron, HGB) to the list of requests.

Keep the suggestions coming, and we'll write back when your feature requests are live. Thanks!