Written by: Bonnie Feldman, DDS, MBA, and Hailey Motooka As I prepare to visit my rheumatologist next week for a scheduled appointment, I am simultaneously eager and apprehensive to share with her my health updates. This is merely a pre-appointment ritual. My eagerness derives from my persistent desire to understand
As the vast majority of autoimmune and chronic illness patients can attest, keeping track of our overlapping, protracted, and interwoven health histories is convoluted at best. However, Pictal Health provides an easy, one-stop solution to keeping track of the medications, physical therapy, appointments, and more that compose your health story by simply visualizing it.
Seqster offers a new platform for organizing and visualizing autoimmune patients’ health records. Dr Bonnie continues her user review.
Seqster integrates health records for autoimmune and chronic disease patients combining multiple sources of data in a single secure place.
Your genes are an incredibly important and deterministic component of your entire existence. Though we understand the vital importance of genetics, we are only just beginning to comprehend the expansive magnitude to which your genes can affect your health. This is why 23andMe’s genetic testing is so necessary and informative in navigating your health. Here Dr. Bonnie details her experience with 23andMe’s extensive genetic library and testing services.
The importance of patients participating in clinical trials can not be underestimated. Just ask Alicia Staley, the Vice President of patient affairs at Science 37, who believes, “It is our obligation as patients, at the end of a treatment journey, to turn around and hold the hands of others.” At
A curated collection of resources from DrBonnie360’s upcoming presentation at Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Inaugural Healthcare IoT Summit (Feb. 13-14). Full presentation slides now available below: The Internet of Things in Autoimmunity from DrBonnie360 Explore the embedded links below to learn how IoT is reshaping healthcare, with a particular emphasis on
Having a chronic disease does not mean that we are powerless in achieving our best states of health. In fact, maximizing our personal well-being may be well within our control! More resources are becoming available to help patients overcome their chronic symptoms. One of these valuable resources is Vida’s personalized
By Bonnie Feldman, Ellen M Martin, and Tiffany Simms What Do We Mean by the Autoimmune Abyss? More than 50M patients in the US are living with 100+ different kinds of autoimmune diseases. In “The Lonely Voices of Autoimmune Disease” young adults talk about the challenges of living with chronic
As a teenager, I vividly remember my mother pacing the floors when she was unable to sleep. In fact, there she was, up and about, when I returned home late from a date. I never thought much about this at the time, until I reached the point in my own