My Health at Vanderbilt

It would be really helpful if patients were able to attach images or documents to messages. It would allow nurses and doctors to see what the patient is dealing with in order to better diagnose what the patient should do. If the ailment is not serious, it would keep the patient from taking an unneeded office from a patient that actually needs to be seen. Also, when viewing lab results, allow users to tap on each score to learn about what the specific category is and why it is important. For example, if a user taps on their “auto neutrophil absolute” score, an info box would come up explaining what that is and what it does for the body.

Works well as-is, but here are a few features that I think would make it even better (may not be realistic but bear with me): - built-in symptom tracker to help both pts and their medical team better understand what they’re experiencing between messages/appointments (or VUMC should come up with their own symptom tracker with input from pts about features!) - ability to view rx #’s and request refills within the app if using a VUMC pharmacy (you can request a new rx from your provider in the app, but communicating with VUMC pharmacies directly when you need a refill on an existing rx would be helpful) - ability to view/print/share eyeglass/contact rx from the app—I actually couldn’t even print my contact rx from the website because the doctor’s name wasn’t listed on it for some reason If I think of other ideas I will update my review or post a new one. :)

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Except for the atrocious name, MyHealthAtVanderbilt has great potential. Unfortunately, it will probably always stay at that place…having great potential but not living up to it. An example is the doctors’ reports area. Doctors’ reports are not really doctors’ reports, they are a regurgitation of things like your known illnesses and the meds you’re on. No real doctors’ notes. My biggest complaint, though, is that the system is always down. Almost every time I really need it, it never fails. It’s down. If they cannot find a more robust system, then they need to just trash the whole idea. I would rather not have it and not depend on it then depend on it and it not be there, which is what is happening now.

I’ve found the app very useful for exchanging messages with my doctors offices, viewing results and notes and seeing lab results compared over time. What was a decent way to complete many of these requests is better each time I use it with more functionality now than a year ago.

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This was the best app ever. I used to be able to search for labs and graph them. Now it’s a piece of junk. I hate it. They ruined an excellent app. All labs and reports are thrown in a lump in one file and half of them aren’t really in there anyway. Messaging a provider doesn’t work well either now because you can’t reply you have to start a whole new email. No more threads. I want the old app back! I need to be able to graph my labs and also search for specific labs like I used to be able to do. The old app was outstanding. Best I have ever used. This is garbage. I plan to just dump it. Piece of crap now. It’s absolutely useless. Whoever thought of this should be fired.