A personal resource

A personal one-stop-shop

mihealth provides patients with an electronic one-stop-shop that places them at the centre of their care and connects them to the healthcare services they rely upon.

We know from independent evaluation that mihealth allows patients to take control of information on their own terms and is an effective and successful solution to the problem of informed choice as it is seen from the patient’s perspective.

What patients say

"I think that it is good to have something that is there, that you can treat as an extra friend because I do think that women do like that idea of having that, almost like a best friend that you can go to that’s quite intimate and discrete and maybe that is a source of information and just for you."

Support for family, friends and carers

We know from talking to patients that mihealth also provides support to families, friends and carers who also need information and help patients in the decision making process.

A single resource

mihealth provides each patient with their own unique web site offering them easy access to an all in one means high quality information, services and support to help them understand their condition .

Providing a single information and support solution helps patients to overcome the problems they encounter when navigating between multiple resources and different layers of information.
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Personalising information

mihealth can be personalised to the patient's stage of their journey, as well as the local institutional contexts where they are treated. This means that information can be tailored to respond to a range of patient information needs to deliver the right information at the right time.
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Expanding the resource

Logging on to mihealth, patients they are provided with a core set of information tailored around their local healthcare services. Core information includes contact details of their clinical teams, treatment centres, local patient support information and services.

Several of the mihealth features enable patients to expand the resource by:

Linking to other information and web sites using milibrary. | Read more
Keeping track of their hospital and personal appointments and make notes before, during and after their appointments using midiary. | Read more
Keeping track of their test, treatments and medications mitreatment. | Read more
Adding new hospital and personal contact information using micontacts. | Read more
Recording their mental and physical well being to keep track of their progress using mimoodstates. | Read more

Accessing the service

Patients are provided with a unique identification code that lets them register with mihealth to create their own user name and password. When they have registered they simply log on and can access all of the mihealth features to help them understand and take control of their care.