A review of the mobile application My Medical in determining its overall effectiveness as a personal health record. Accompanying blog with more detailed explanation can be found here: https://evekatalbas.wordpress.com.

1. Personal Health Record Review:
My Medical™
By Eve Rizza G. Katalbas, RN, MD

2. My Medical™
 “My Medical is a comprehensive record-keeping
app for your personal information. It’s the perfect
replacement for unreliable paper records or various
electronic systems that hold bits and pieces of
information of your medical history. With My
Medical, any and all information that is important
to you is kept together in one place.”
App description from the Apple App Store

3. Availability
 PLATFORM: 4/5
 Available on desktop and
mobile
 Desktop version is separate
from mobile version

4. Availability
 PRICE: 4/5
 With minimal fee
 Perfect for iOS users since application is eligible for family sharing

5. Design
 USER-FRIENDLINESS OF INTERFACE: 5/5
 Easy to navigate even for a first-time user
 TERMINOLOGIES: 5/5
 Has autosuggestion and autocompletion features for a wealth of
medical jargon
 See succeeding slides for examples

6. Data Quality
 COMPLETENESS: 4/5
 Asks for relatively comprehensive information from the patient
 INTERPRETATION: 2/5
 Patient has to enter reference ranges
 Does not explicitly say that a result is normal or abnormal,
although reference values are shown for comparison
 VERIFICATION: 3/5
 Data fields are mostly free-text entry
 Autosuggestion and autocompletion features somehow help
verify if medication/type of test is correct or not

7. Data Quality
 Categories of entries:
 General information
 Emergency contacts
 Medications
 Test and procedures
 Allergies
 Immunizations
 Surgical procedures
 Diagnoses
 Episodes & injuries
 Hospitalizations
 Physicians
 Office visits
 Family history
 Health insurance
 Assistive device
 Eyesight
 Advance directives
 Documents & photos

8. Data Quality
 General Information
 Primary contact details
 Employment details
 Vitals including – birthday, blood
type, height, weight, BMI, WHR,
allergies, whether patient is an
organ donor or not
 Social including – exercise, alcohol
use, tobacco use, recreational
drug use

9. Data Quality
 Medications
 All blank fields can be
entered via free text
 Formulary is US-based
 Drug names include both
generic and trade names
 Frequency includes Latin
abbreviations

11. Data Quality
 Tests and procedures – advantages
 Schedule upcoming tests and sync
it to calendar
 Get an overview of all
tests/procedures recorded
 Choose from a template of tests
that are already categorized
under blood, imaging, pulmonary,
urine, and vitals
 Get a graphical representation of
discrete values of laboratory
results
 Option to choose only which kinds
of tests to
 Capability to send plot of results
as an image file
 You can add documents/photos to
test results (ex. Image of x-ray, full
report of an USG or CT scan)
instead of typing out all the
details
 Test and procedures – disadvantages
 You have to enter reference
ranges individually
 No alert for abnormal laboratory
result but reference values will be
displayed for comparison
 If a document/photo was
attached to an imaging result,
attachment will not show up on
exported file

17. Data Quality
 Diagnoses
 Diagnosis and treatment part
entered via free text; no
autocomplete or autosuggest
 No efficient way to verify if what
patient is entering is accurate or not

18. Data Quality
 Physicians
 Can import all the details from
contact list or data can be entered
via free text

19. Data Quality
 Office visits
 More commonly considered as
“clinic visits” in local setting
 Can be synced to the calendar to get
reminders/alerts

20. Data Quality
 Family History
 Can include up to multiple family
members
 Shows death of date and age at
death
 Medical history has several common
diagnoses like cancer, hypertension,
asthma, etc.

23. Security
 ACCESS: 4/5
 Mobile app can be password-protected
 User can choose which fields to make public or private (in case of
emergency)
 Multiple emergency contacts can be assigned and their details
can be imported from phone’s contact list
 Instructions in case of emergency can be specified
 Unclear how the emergency contact will be contacted, or how
another person can access the data in case of an emergency
 App is independent of hospitals, medical centers and the
government

25. Security
 DATA STORAGE: 4/5
 Data is stored in the device,
not on servers
 Does not connect to the
internet and does not send
out any diagnostic
information
 Back-up
 Dropbox
 Archived sent via email

26. Security
 DATA TRANSFER: 4/5
 Input data in a secure
online form for transfer
to mobile app
 Data on one device can
be shared to other
devices (ex. iPhone to
iPad) as long as they
share the same WiFi
network

27. Provider Communication
 PROVIDER COMMUNICATION: 3/5
 Able to export files and send via text, PDF, spreadsheet or CCR
formats and send to clinician for review
 Able to filter type of data and time range for data to be exported
 Non-secure method of transfer from patient to clinician
 Any feedback from clinician prior to face-to-face clinic visit will
not be coursed through the app

29. Review
Category Rating
Availability
• Platform
• Price
4
4
Design
• User-friendliness
• Terminologies
5
5
Data Quality
• Completeness
• Interpretation
• Verification
4
2
3
Security
• Access
• Data Storage
• Data Transfer
4
4
4
Provider Communication 3
Overall rating: 3.8 / 5
Recommend App? YES