Keeping Track of Everything
I need to find an effective way to keep track of my wife’s medical history. I’m not just talking about insurance papers or prescription records. I have all of that stuff covered. I need a way to keep track of medicine, symptoms, doctor visits, sleep patterns, and more. I also want to be able to look at this information and quickly identify trends and possible correlations between events, symptoms, and medications. Ideally, I would be able to do all of this from my phone.
Well, if such a application exists, I have yet to find it. I’m afraid that I may just have to create one.
Any system for charting or logging health information should have some portability and while I would love to be able to use my phone for this, I don’t think I want to have to transfer information from my phone into a spreadsheet, which is where I think the data will eventually reside. I’m going to start with a small notebook, like a Moleskine Ruled Notebook
Since there’s so much information regarding medicine that taken daily, I figure what I will do is only record changes in medicine. For example, if a new medication is added, I will make a note of it, or if Jenny forgets to take something on a particular day.
I can track particular symptoms, like fever or nausea, by just making a note of it on that day. The trick is going to be how to do that without having to keep too much detail.
I am also going to try and record things numerically using a scaled score. This is all pretty subjective, but maybe it will be helpful the next time something happens and we are wondering why.
All of this data will have to go into a spreadsheet. If I create one using Google Apps, then I will share the template with anyone who is interested.
