Personalized Health Information Now Available to Patients by HealthLat
HealthLat offers chronic condition patients customized health information to assist in treatment option decisions.
Madison, WI (PRWEB) October 31, 2007
How effective is Lipitor for a man around 60, weighing 180 lb, who has GERD, is allergic to Aspirin, and currently has a saddle nose? Don’t know? Find the answer with HealthLat’s patent-pending tool, HealthLat Patient Safety Report Program available at www. healthlat. com].
No two patients are the same. Patients, especially those with multiple complications from chronic diseases, should use health information personalized to their specific conditions to make informed decisions.
Patients are going online for health information, but soon realize personalized information is not easy to find. Information sources including static web pages, forums, mailing lists, and social networking sites are not designed to treat patients as unique individuals.
The HealthLat Patient Safety Report Program (http://www. healthlat. com/overview) constantly pools health experience information directly from patients and makes personalized information (http://www. healthlat. com/buy) a reality. Updated information about a drug, surgery or medical test by many other patients of comparable age, sex, disease and other conditions who have experienced the treatment is organized in an easy-to-understand experience report.
Currently, the tool gathers information on over 5,000 kinds of treatments and includes more than 10,000 medical conditions and unlimited demographics for users to personalize. The Patient Safety Report Program is free to join. $5 buys a customized experience report, or a patient can share his or her own experience (http://www. healthlat. com/sell) with the Program and use earned credits to purchase an individualized report. Half of each sale’s proceeds are shared with patients who contributed experiences used in the report.
30% of the $2 trillion national health care costs relate to medical errors. Chronic disease patients are particularly vulnerable to treatment errors due to their multiple conditions and treatments. With this tool, patients are able to make more informed decisions. Lives will be saved and costs and dangers of treatment errors will be substantially reduced.
“We take the privacy of patients very seriously,” says Johnson Chen of HealthLat, “HealthLat gathers only minimal basic demographics, not social security numbers or date of birth. We comply with industry standards and protocols, and maintain the latest in secure technologies.”
About Us
HealthLat is an independent company. We are not representatives of pharmaceutical companies nor do we have any vested interest in your method of healthcare or drug choices. The team behind HealthLat is led by a health care veteran from Deloitte Consulting and a database expert from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
For additional information, please visit www. HealthLat. com].
Contact:
Johnson Chen
Jhaochen @ healthlat. com
(608)395-1388
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