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MyHealthInsights.com is community to advance the concept of evidence-based medicine and informed medical decision making. The healthcare industry knows precious little which treatments are effective and which are not. Modern medicine, for all its immense promise, is still a deadly game of trial-and-error, with less than 25% of treatments currently being prescribed based on proven efficacy.

Through the contributions of ordinary people like you sharing their experiences, we hope to reduce this guess-work and improve healthcare significantly.

It is extremely important that you consult with an authorized medical professional before using any information from this website. This information is only meant to be research tool for you to be better informed before discussing with your doctor or other care provider. This is NOT a prescription, nor is it medical advice.

We believe that through the collective wisdom of our contributors, countless human lives can be saved and human suffering reduced. Please join us in building the next generation of the healthcare.

The insights are generated based on a pattern-recognition based Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. While our technology makes every effort to filter out bogus entries to generate the most accurate representation of the data; as with any user-generated content, there is the possibility of errors in the data since it has been not been scientifically evaluated for accuracy.
Therefore it is extremely important that you consult with an authorized medical professional before using any information on this website.

The information that users share on our site is often sensitive and many people are likely to have misgivings about sharing such information. However, we do not store any personally identifying information that lets anyone trace the data back to the user.

The data is never presented as an individual contribution; instead the insights are based on the aggregated pattern-recognition analysis of multiple entries.

Registering for a (free) account offers you access to all the features on our site, such as a personalized symptoms/treatments tracker, insights generator, blogging feature and a filtering engine that generates a personalized reading list of articles from journals, and other reading materials that are most relevant to you.

Our aim is to give you the best possible information to be informed and self-empowered while discussing with your doctor or healthcare provider.

You can contribute your healthcare experiences even without registering using the 'Contribute' section. Your contribution is aggregated using our proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology (developed at MIT), and made available to be queried using the 'Research Insights' feature.

Your experience in sharing how useful a certain therapy or medication has been for a certain condition is used to train the Artificial Intelligence (AI) system.

The Insights section is a research tool, that shows which therapies have been viewed as most effective for a certain condition by the community. The insights are generated using a sophisticated pattern recognition algorithm that suggests the best treatment options, to discuss with your doctor or healthcare provider. These insights can be made more relevant by setting your gender, ethnicity, geographic location etc.

You can sign-up easily (takes a few minutes) and enjoy the benefits of our community. We hope you decide to sign-up and participate in this collaborative effort.

Thanks for your time!

Home > Privacy Policy

MyHealthInsights.com is NOT a tool for self-diagnosis, nor does it offer medical advice. You must consult with your physician before using any of this information. You should only use it as a research tool to:


	Discuss treatment options with care providers

	Question diagnoses and prescriptions

	Evaluate therapeutic options

	Be proactive about your health

	Learn about newer/alternative therapies

Registering offers you several benefits:


	tracking of conditions & treatments

	Daily monitoring of symptoms

	Simple blog functionality

	Automatically matched blog posts by other users

	Personalized list of relevant readings

	Personalized list of health insights

MyHealthInsights.com has the highest regard for your privacy. We realize that our service can only work if we build trust with our member communities. For that reason, our first priority is making sure our users are confident in the security of the data they share with us.

This policy outlines the type of information MyHealthInsights.com collects from our users and how it is shared with other parties. We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time, and without prior notice, by posting amended terms on this website. We encourage you to review this policy periodically for any updates or changes.

MyHealthInsights.com allows users to track their important health conditions history information and share it with the rest of the patient community so that everyone can learn. Typical disease history information may include:

Treatment regimens, including treatment start dates, stop dates, and dosages
Symptoms experienced
Alternative treatments and outcomes
Condition history information like diagnosis date or family history

MyHealthInsights.com values the privacy of your data. We will never rent, sell or share information that personally identifies you for marketing purposes. In the future we may provide a permission-based service to allow our partners to directly and anonymously communicate with you through our system. We will provide our partners with anonymized, aggregated community data with the goal of increasing involvement in disease research.

As a MyHealthInsights.com user, you are in charge of your data. You may enter as much or as little as you like, and you decide how much you are comfortable revealing about your identity. Because the value of MyHealthInsights.com is in helping other patients learn from your experiences, we hope that you feel comfortable enough to share your experiences to the larger community.

You should expect that regardless of your profile's anonymity level, the information you enter may be available to the community in an aggregated, completely anonymous form. For example, we may report the number of patients trying a particular treatment or the number of patients experiencing a particular symptom. We share the cumulative experience of the patient community to help patients, doctors, and caregivers manage and treat diseases. Our success in achieving those goals will only happen if our community uses the site in this spirit of openness. However, we always respect your privacy and you are free not to enter any data that you are uncomfortable having aggregated in this fashion.

Finally, you should know that MyHealthInsights.com takes every technical precaution to keep your data secure. We employ best practices from our networking to our secure servers to make sure your data is safe from intrusion.

If you have questions or comments about our privacy policy, please let us know, or contact us at:

MyHealthInsights.com
Brookline, Massachusetts
USA