Keyose Blog - Personal Health Records

Yesterday one of our patients decided to become the first Gold member of Keyose. For just 2,91€ per month (around 4,5 USA $) this patient will have access to 1Gb of images storage, unlimited use of our health-track tools and the possibility of asking up to 3 personalized questions to a family physician in an anonymous way.

As Keyose is anonymous we don’t know the identity of our first Gold Member, but we would like to welcome him/her to our service. We hope to be useful to you, and to the 1100 patients that are using our Free service.

Last week we have reach the 1001 objective. A thousand and one patients have filled a register in Keyose. To celebrate next week we will release the version 1.0 of Keyose Personal Health Record. This new version will allow to upload medical images or track your hypertension, weight and diabetes.

As we do not ask for personal indentification there is no way to know the origin of our users, but based on the statistics of visits we estimate that by the moment we help to manage their personal health records to around 630 patients from Spain, 120 from USA, 40 from Argentina, 20 from Mexico, 15 from Peru, 15 from France, 10 from Brazil, 10 from Chile, 10 from UK, 10 from Japan and some patients from other countries as Netherlands, Colombia, Germany, Canada, Malasya, India, China, Portugal, Dominican Republic, Hungary, Singapure, Algeria, Taiwan, South Africa, New Zeland, Angola and even Bangla Desh!

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Two in five (42%) adults keep personal or family health records, that is “one place where you keep all your medical records with the results of all your medical tests and details about prescriptions, vaccinations, treatments, known allergies and other health care information.” Almost every one (84%) of those who do not keep health records think it would be a good idea to do so.

At the moment, only a small minority (13%) of those with health records keep them electronically but many people – 40% of all those who do not have electronic medical records – think it at least somewhat likely that they will do so.
These are a few of the results of a nationwide survey by Harris Interactive of 2,242 adults who were surveyed online between July 12 and 18, 2004.
Other interesting findings include:
• Women (45%) are slightly more likely than men (38%) to keep personal or family medical records.
• Older people are more likely than younger people to keep personal or family medical records. Fully 58% of people over 65 do so.
• Among the many “good reasons” for keeping personal or family medical records are:
- The ability to provide doctors with useful information (78%).
- The ability to look back and recall what care was received (78%).
- The ability to have access to the record in case of emergency (77%).
- To help ensure the proper use of prescription drugs (54%).

The biggest concerns people have about keeping medical records are possible threats to one’s privacy (68%), and security (66%). Many, but far fewer, people are concerned about possible errors (37%), that critical information won’t be accessible in an emergency (37%), or that they won’t be able to keep their records up to date (33%).

For that reason, privacy and security have been the main concern of Keyose’s team from the beginning of the project.

The first statistics about the use of Keyose are coming. And the first surprise has came up. The most active city in the world using (not just visiting) Keyose is Quillota, in Chile. We have around 25 users/visitors from that town that spend a 20 minutes each time they visit the keyose tool.

It is incredible how broad is the distribution of users (not only visitors) of keyose. Buenos Aires, Lleida, Paterna, Badajoz, San Cristobal de la Laguna, Granada, Vicente Lopez, Asunción, Chihuahua, Citrus Heights… Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Guatemala, Colombia, Portugal, Spain, United States, Indonesia and Peru…

As Keyose is an anonymous database we can not greet our users directly so we want to thanks them through our blog.