Lifetime Health Diary™ FAQ


• Click and point your way through 9 years of medical history! From single consultations to multi-year views, all at the tap of your fingers or click of your mouse.

• Take control of the healthcare of your family and loved ones, especially when they visit a clinic or hospital and extra monitoring can help ensure a safe care experience.

• Share your medical information with caregivers you authorize to view your account, no matter where they may be physically based.

• Enjoy the benefits of Shared Patient Care, even when you go to a new clinic and your new care giver does not know your medical history.

• Easily recall what medications you take (or have taken in the past), what illnesses you have had, important life events, life style through the years, etc. It is all captured in a single at-a-glance page for you and your care givers.

• No more forgetting about an extra symptom you meant to tell your busy doctor, but you didn’t remember until you had left the clinic.

• Your Lifetime Health Diary™ can be easily accessed through any web browser by you or any care giver you authorize. Or you can take a single printout of your Health Summary page to your next consultation if your doctor does not use the internet.

• Lifetime Health Diary™ is very easy to set up. A new account detailing today’s symptoms and health score can be created in just 2 or 3 minutes. Background information from your past can then be fleshed out over time at your convenience.



1) By using the Time Legend at the top left of the Status Graph you will be able to view your overall health summary of by Years, Months, Weeks or else the Most Recent Nine health consultations, all accessible by a single click.

2) The Body Avatar top left shows you a summary of your current symptoms and complaints. A darker inside circle means a symptom has become more severe since the previous consultation. A lighter inside circle means a symptom has become less severe since the previous consultation.

3) The Data Modules listed below the Status Graph are usually self-entered by yourself. However, when symptoms or information are entered by an authorized healthcare provider, that will be made apparent by different colored text and fields.

4) The Status Graph Progress Lines in the top graph are based on a proprietary algorithm designed to give an overall indication as to whether your condition is getting worse or better over time. This line (relative to your varying condition through time) may provide at-a-glance correlations with the time correlated health data in the Data Modules directly below it.

5) Note that for data integrity purposes only you will be able to enter and/or edit information within the Symptom and Module fields reserved for your use. Conversely, the Symptom and Module information entered by care givers you authorize to view your Lifetime Health Diary™ can only be entered or edited by them.



That is fine. Lifetime Health Diary™ is designed to be a complementary tool to health professionals’ existing Electronic Medical Records. Let them know that a minute or two “joining the dots” of your background health with Lifetime Health Diary™ will likely save them more than that in their consultation time overall. We think that if they try it once they will be hooked!



• We are absolutely committed to the confidentiality and protection of your information.

Patient Stewardship. Lifetime Health Diary™ is 100% opt-in. Your information is only accessible by yourself and those care givers you explicitly authorise to access your record. You own it, you control it.

Full History of Record. You as the owner can see at any time who has accessed your Lifetime Health Diary™ and when.

De-identified Records. Note that we do NOT require your real name or address for you to operate your Lifetime Health Diary™. Those fields are optional. All we require in terms of identification from you are a valid email address you own and a security question and answer in case of needing to prove ownership of account.

• We encourage you to read our Lifetime Health Diary™ Privacy Policy, which explains clearly in clear language the privacy and security precautions we take on your behalf.



Our mission is to enable people all around the world understand their health and be more engaged in the maintenance of their health. Therefore the standard version of Lifetime Health Diary™ that contains all the features you can currently access will always be free.



Lifetime Health Diary™ has been designed to be used from scratch with no previous health or medical information required to start with. You are able to input previous information you may have from doctor’s appointments, tests or treatments that you have undergone.

We encourage you to try entering data into as many fields as you can, particularly your symptoms and their duration and severity. We have purposely kept your data input process streamlined to keep time required down to a minimum.



Your “My Health Level” Status Graph is a very special part of the Lifetime Health Diary™. It is placed at the top of the summary view page. Based on a set of proprietary algorithms, the Total Health Status Graph™ is a summary snapshot of your “total health score” (between 0 and 1000) based upon your symptom inputs into the system over time. As your symptoms improve or get worse, your Total Health Status Graph™ reflects this change. You can also compare your current regimen of treatments, drugs, lifestyle factors (e.g. exercise or sleep) to your Total Health Status Graph™ to see if there is a correlation between any particular factor and your overall health status.

Your health professionals are also able to create Status Graphs summarising their opinion of your current health. Over time this may reveal previously hidden relationships between your perception of your health status, and the perception that your health professional holds of your health status.

The My Summary Health Status Graph is automatically generated from your regular inputs into the system. You don’t have to do anything extra. It is fun and users find the end result a genuine reward for taking the time to enter their current symptoms into the system.

Note that your Total Health Status Graph™ is designed to be a score that is relative to your own health condition over time. It is not designed to be compared to other people. However, over time, aggregated population statistics derived from ongoing use of the Total Health Status Graph™ may enable us to publish general patterns for certain types of people with certain types of condition and undergoing certain types of treatment. These “rules of thumb” may possibly lead to breakthrough insights for the health and medical community. It is exciting to think that some of these connections may even be discovered by regular folk through open innovation.



Dr Atsushi Matsunaga, owner of Ohkita Medical Clinic in Osaka, Japan, had been frustrated throughout his career by modern medicine’s inability to prevent illness and sickness in the first place. In a flash of inspiration of a few years ago he realized a method could be invented which not only helped engage patients in their health, but allowed them to take control of their health information while collaborating with their care providers in a manner which actually aided their clinical workflow and could produce better health outcomes.

Dr. Matsunaga’s business partner, Hamish MacDonald, returned to his native country of New Zealand in late 2009 to build out the working beta of Lifetime Health Diary™.

Lifetime Health Diary™ has been designed for you to take control of your health information, communicate more effectively with your care givers, and engage and educate you in a fun manner with an intuitive click-and-point interface centered around a single summary page that displays your essential health information at a glance.