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.

As a physicians led project, in Keyose our main compromise is with the confidentiality of your data.  We must follow the Geneve declaration of the World Medical Association that says: “I will respect the secrets that are confided in me, even after the patient has died.”

Although some capital venture has suggested us to monetize the information we store in our database (by selling aggregated data to third parties, as other PHR projects are probably planning to do) we have rejected that possibility, as incompatible with our total commitment with patients (we like to say patients and not just users).

We have updated our Privacy policy to state clearly our position:

Keyose will never provide third parties with any data, individualized or aggregated without the consent of each individual user. Each potential data transfer to third parties will require a new informed consent signature.

In the future Keyose could generate aggregated statistics based in data provided by users that had signed a specific informed consent. This statistics could be useful to allow Keyose users to compare their clinical advances with the rest of users. Also, this aggregated statistics could be provided to the general public and biomedical researchers for public interest, again after the sign of a specific informed consent for that purpose. However Keyose will never charge for or monetize these aggregated statistics.

After listening the requirements and suggestions of our users, we are glad to release the version 1.0 of keyose service. We keep the core of Keyose (the easy to use so useful brief medical record) but adding a lot of new functionalities:

• You can upload medical images (radiology tests, photos, digitalized documents…)
• You can track at home (or by mobile phone) a new set of conditions (your blood pressure for hypertension, your sugar blood for diabetes and your weight and body mass index to prevent obesity or track the growth of your children)
• You can even pose any medical question to a family physician (Dr Julio Bonis) in an anonymous way using your account

We inaugurate two new plans for our special patients, so by the moment you can choose to have:

• Free Keyose Account: For every one! Basic PHR and upload of 2 medical images.
• Premium Keyose Account (for only 0,92€ per month): For those with an intensive use of Keyose or some chronic conditions. The free privileges and also 50 Mb of medical images and access to our exclusive health-tracking tools (hypertension, diabetes and obesity).
• Gold Keyose Account (for only 2,92€ per month): For those who value the human touch!. The premium privileges and 1Gb of medical images storage. Acces to the health-tracking tools and most importantly the possibility of posing medical questions anonymously to a family physician.

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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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.

The Keyose team reads sometimes news that get us shocked. As this one, where is said that the Industry Ministry of Spain has spent 75 millions of euros (and will spend a total amount of 252 millions) in a interoperability system for clinical health records titled “Health Online”.

There are stil no real restuls that patients can use, after spending 75 millions, and if you read the source you will see it always talk about future.

The included actions in Health Online will allow the health care record use, the electronic prescription and telematic citations. In the other hand the interoperability between information systems of Autonomic Communities will be possible. The goal is to put the citizen in the center of the healthcare system, to reduce uncertainty in the medical decision making and to improve the access to relevant information for the provision of healthcare.

We, in Keyose, have always thought that before offering a solution you have to spend time to understand the problem. And that only when you understand it you must offer the simplest solution, that will be the more efficient.

Of course, the understanding of the problem is within those that suffer the problem. For that reason Keyose is a tool that came out the mind of a medical doctor that works every day treating patients. And for that reason we give the highest importance to the opinions and suggestions that the patients using Keyose provide us every day.

Moreover, our engineer is obsessed with simplicity and is an expert in usability. For him, the challenge is not about using the lastest technology, but the simplest one able to solve the problem.

250 millions of euros are far enough to many millions of liters of Arab tea (our favourite drink when our team meet to produce new ideas).

Our goal, as the Ministry is: to put the citizen in the center of the healthcare system, to reduce uncertainty in the medical decision making and to improve the access to relevant information for the provision of healthcare.

And we are proud of say that we have biuld a tool that real people is using all over the world, in 5 months of work.

And, by the way, drinking much less teas in the process.