20 Years into a Chronic Care Journey, Record Keeping Is Now More Manageable
Managing a loved one’s care is an experience that many of us share. Whether it’s an aging parent with a chronic illness or a child with health problems, caregiving requires time, patience, and organization. I’ve been managing my mother’s care for so long, “caregiver” has become a big part of my identity. Being Organized is Being in Control For the past two decades, my mother, Alma, has been living with […]
A New Entry for Your Back-to-School Checklist: the Huddle Health app
Back-to-school clothes ready? Check. Backpacks filled with pencils and notebooks? Check. Summer reading list complete? Check. Kids’ health and immunization records ready to share with schools and sports teams. Uh-oh. Not so fast! In the hectic days leading up to a new school year, the last thing parents and caregivers want to juggle is their […]
DrFirst’s Huddle Health App Wins Consumer Mobile Tech Award
24th Annual Digital Health Awards Recognize Best Online Health Resources; Patients Can Store and Share Medical Records With Family and Clinicians ROCKVILLE, MD, July 12, 2022 – Health technology pioneer DrFirst today announced that its mobile health records app for consumers, Huddle Health, is a Digital Health Awards winner for 2022. As a hub for health records, […]
Need Your Health Records on the Weekend? You May Be Out of Luck
Survey finds Americans want quick access to health information, but nearly half can’t get it when they need it ROCKVILLE, MD, June 28, 2022 – The vast majority of Americans (92%) say it is important to have quick, easy access to their medical records, but nearly half report trouble getting them from a patient portal […]
From File Folders to Digital App: My Personal Health Record Journey
Like many people, I’ve gone through some difficult transitions over the past few years. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was rushed to the emergency room of my local hospital after experiencing severe pain. That visit evolved into dozens of appointments with various providers, which ultimately resulted in the diagnosis of a chronic […]
Putting Your Patient Empowerment to Work
We all want to feel a sense of control over the decisions and actions that affect our health and wellbeing. That includes having access to our electronic medical records. Gone are the days when being a “good patient” suggested passivity and compliance. Better armed with the tools we need to marshal our own health and […]
The Role of Technology in Caregiving, Visualized
Every year on the third Friday in February, we celebrate an important but often unrecognized group in the healthcare community: caregivers. An estimated 53 million people in the U.S.—about one in five of us—serve as caregivers to a spouse, parent, relative, child, or close friend. Who are caregivers? A caregiver is a person who is […]
Frustrated About Missing Medical Records? You Aren’t Alone
Most of us have experienced the frustration of searching for missing medical records. Being unable to track them down, whether for ourselves or a loved one, can make it difficult to manage our health care needs, and leads us to wonder: Where are all my medical records? Why can’t they all be in one […]
Q&A Session with a Pharmacist: Why Patients Are Repeatedly Asked, “What Medications Are You Taking?”
If you feel like you’ve been asked, “What medications are you taking?” by a nurse dozens or hundreds of times, you’re not alone. So why does every clinician ask that question in every single conversation, and what are they really trying to understand? We recently chatted with Caleb Dunn, PharmD, DrFirst Product Manager, to discover […]
Tangled and Mangled: How Huddle Health Helped Salvage a Bike Ride Gone Wrong
I’ve been waiting for something like Huddle for a long time. For most of my adult life, I’ve digitized every receipt, eyeglasses prescription, and piece of paper I thought I might need to reference in the future. Because I had access to a camera and a hard drive, it was relatively easy to do so. […]
