I built a tool to help patients keep up during telehealth visits. What would make you not use it?
My friend has spent a lot of time in doctor’s appointments and kept running into the same problem, so I built an app around it. I’m starting to let more people try it and would love some honest feedback from people who have telehealth visits.
My friend was diagnosed with stage three cancer at 17. During treatment, his mom basically became his note taker. She still has around a dozen notebooks from his appointments. My friend has said there was always so much information, and he and his mom often had no idea what questions they could or should be asking.
He's more than 10 years in remission now, but he still see a lot of specialists and still in every 20-min visit he's trying to pay attention to the doctor, take notes, look up or ask for more explanations on stuff he doesn’t know, and think of questions all at the same time.
My doctors' visits are not as intense as his but I have had similar experiences for simpler annual checkups, asking about heart disease risks and requesting specific blood tests, and trying to get an ortho to see if I tore anything in my knee or shoulder.
So I built a tool that runs during a visit. It explains medical terms as they come up, suggests questions you might want to ask, and afterward gives you what happened, next steps, questions, and definitions in one place.
The idea is really just to make it easier to listen to the doctor without also trying to keep track of everything yourself.
If you have a telehealth appointment coming up and want to try it, you can get access here: https://openhand.health.
Mostly just looking for specifics: what works, what doesn’t, what features could be helpful, and what would make you not use something like this?