My family health portrait medina county health department. This study examined medical students and house officers opinions about the surgeon generals my family health portrait mfhp tool. My family health portrait offering national neighborhood. The genogram is a pictorial graph of the structure and characteristics of a family across three or more. Print your family health history to share with family or your health care worker.
Millions of families across the nation will celebrate the thanksgiving holiday with a traditional family meal and an extra helping of time together. My family health portrait tool supported decision making. Family health centers is a nonprofit 501c3 that proudly offers a diverse range of primary and preventive health care services such as. This study examines the analytic validity of a software tool designed to provide individuals with risk assessments for colorectal cancer based on personal health and family history information. Family history is useful to assess disease risk, but is not widely used. Tracing family traits using a genogram cynthia doxey green, ph. How can the online my family health portrait tool be. My family health portrait my family health portrait my. This website is a tool from the surgeon general to help individuals create a family health history portrait and share with others. My family health portrait was released in january 2009 as an opensource, standardsbased, ehrready, customizable software tool. It assembles your information and makes a pedigree family tree that you can download. An algorithm for risk assessment was created using accepted colorectal risk assessment guidelines and.
To assess the ability of my family health portrait to accurately collect family history for six common heritable disorders. My family health portrait allows you to share this information easily with your doctor and other family members. In comparison to the total number of users, most pcs are running the os windows 7 sp1 as well as windows xp. The software is compatible with the us surgeon generals my family health portrait. This report describes evaluation activities on my family health portrait mfhp, a tool to assist people in recording their family health history. The surgeon generals my family health portrait tool does not keep a government record of the information you fill in nor make your health information available to anyone else but you. Family history instructions public health genomics. Please enter your picture day id or portrait id and access code.
My family health portraitpublic health genomics knowledge. Mfhp is a key element of the surgeon generals national family history initiative which is now an annual event celebrated on thanksgiving day. The main program executable is my family health portrait. No form can reflect every version of the american family, so use this chart as a starting point and adapt it to your needs. Surgeon generals family history initiative, the my family health portrait is a website that helps you create your own family health history. My family health portrait automatically assembles the information into a medically useful format, which can be shared with health care practitioners as well as other family members. How can the online my family health portrait tool be improved. Report our experience in using the us surgeon generals my family health portrait for obtaining a family history from women with primary ovarian insufficiency.
My family health portrait, a free webbased tool, is helpful in organizing the information in your family health history. The software is compatible with the us surgeon generals my family health portrait mfhp. Create a health portrait for your family this thanksgiving. The study included usability testing with an early version of the software, an assessment of compliance with. The patient portal provides you with access to your health care information 24 hours a day. The tool is easy to access on the web and simple to fill out. Save your family health history so you can update it over time. Validation of my family health portrait for six common. This study assessed how well the web site functioned. To assess the ability of my family health portrait mfhp to accurately collect family history for six common heritable disorders. Its a golden opportunity to learn about, record and pass down your family health. It also offers disease risk estimation calculation for colorectal cancer and diabetes. Aarp health record is a new online health tool that is free to aarp members and helps them manage and improve their health.
No user information is saved on any computer of the u. Nhgri family health history tool meeting tool descriptions. If it has one, it sure does not take advantage of it. The absence of such a model would explain the lack of consistency checks and gedcom import. My family health portrait is not a genealogical tool, but a medical aid. The online tool is a product of the office of the us surgeon general. In the coming months, my family health portrait will expand its offering to other thirdparty health solutions.
Tracing family traits using a genogram the church of. Print your family health history to share with family or your health care provider. Knowing is not enoughact on your family health history cdc. My family health portrait will help you collect and organize your family information. Create a health portrait for your family this thanksgiving by raymond macdougall associate communications director for intramural research. A patients family health history will enable health care providers to make personalized recommendations for his or her health care. Nursing application of a webbased tool to evaluate women with primary ovarian insufficiency premature ovarian failure. It only provides the software for organizing your information. Collect your family health history and share it with your doctor at your next visit. Knowing and acting on your family health history is an important way to protect your health.
My family health portrait allows you to share this information easily with your doctor. Your doctor can use it to develop a more complete picture of your health and your risk factors for disease. My family health portrait is a program developed by us surgeon general. Write each of your relatives names in the designated boxes. A tool from the surgeon general using my family health portrait you can enter your family health history, learn about your risk for conditions that can run in families, printt your family health history to share with family or your health care provider, and save your family health history so you can update it over time. Share family health history information with your doctor and other family members. The surgeon general makes the tool freely available to all users. By accessing the tool on the web, you make use of that software. My family health portrait by us surgeon general should i.
Family history is useful to assess disease risk but is not widely used. My family health portrait, a tool from the surgeon general. The first version of my family health portrait was introduced late in 2004. Learn about your risk for conditions that can run in families.
We compared the pedigree from mfhp, an online tool. Like my family health portrait, it is built on microsoft health vault, but since it requires aarp membership, you might want to start with my family health portrait. One set of algorithms in the software analyzes users family history data and assesses the users familial risk for each of the six diseases. The tool provides the software for organizing your information, but your information is not transmitted back to government or other servers and can only be downloaded by you. Surgeon generals family health history tool mj khoury, ll rodriguez, cdc blog post, september 6, 2018 my family health portrait. With this free service and software from the surgeon general, we may all be better able to provide our health care professionals with the information that may prove so vital to our health care and treatment. My family health portrait tool the surgeon generals my family health portrait is an internetbased tool that makes it easy for you to record your family health history. You can request appointments, view lab results, check your medications and more, all from your home computer or smartphone. Clinical use of the surgeon generals my family health. Nhgri family health history tool meeting tool descriptions my family health portrait my family health portrait mfhp is a webbased tool for collecting, organizing, and storing a record of ones family health history. My family tree by chronoplex software is a free genealogy interested in creating your very own detailed family history complete with photos, sounds, and videos. Using any computer, an internet connection and an uptodate web browser, you provide your health information to build a drawing of your family tree and a chart of your family health history. The tool has been an important part of public education campaigns about family health history, and has been downloaded and used by users in the united states and around the world. The surgeon generals my family health portrait tool does not allow the government or other entities to access your information.
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