Your Bodytab Family Health Records Will Help you:

• Gain more understanding of health care issues
• Monitor important data about yourself on a regular basis at home
• Better involve friends & family in a care situation for elderly parents
• Improve communication with health-care professionals - reduce the doctor's information hunting time at visits
• Provide & alert on potential drug interactions, contra-indicators, side effects & allergies

There are many benefits of using Bodytab Personal Medical History and Personal Medical Records Software for your family health care and health screening at home.

Your health care records are spread between your family doctor, dentist, consultants, surgeons, paediatricians etc. There is a general lack of communication between these health care professionals so taking responsibility for managing and organising your health care information is of vital importance.

Why should I monitor my health at home?

Many people are taking a more activie role in their own family health by monitoring their health at home, and carrying out health screening and health testing at home. Recording the results of home health testing in an organised fashion is essential.

Bodytab personal medical records software allows you to manage and monitor your family health information at home. There are many benefits for doing so.

• Bodytab software allows you to record your complete family medical history. Knowing your family medical history can help in preventing illnesses for which you may be at risk. Heart disease, cancer, or diabetes may not always be preventable, but knowing their is a history of such illnesses in your family medical history may make you more likely to take preventative action.

• Monitoring your health at home and sharing this information with your health care provided will lead to an improved and more efficient service. For example, communicating the frequency of asthma attacks or the results of diabetes home testing can allow your doctor to make a more informed decision on your treatment.

• With all the demands of modern day parenting, keeping an up to date record of vaccinations, develoopment checks, illnesses, allergies, medications etc is vital to ensure the best health care for your children.

• In emergency situations you may be required to pass on vital information about the health care of your family members. Having up to date records at hand allows you to do give this information, which otherwise may be to difficult to recall in stressful situations.