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HealthTree for Multiple Myeloma Featured on the Today Show
March 20, 2019
The Today Show featured Jenny and Paul Ahlstrom as they described a new patient platform they created called HealthTree. The mission of HealthTree is to help doctors, researchers and patients better collaborate around each patient's treatment options, with the hope that connecting the patient data will accelerate a cure for myeloma.
A cancer diagnosis is a panic attack for anyone, but after the initial shock wears off, patients have a choice in how they respond.
HealthTree is a tool to help myeloma patients become their own best advocates. HealthTree can help patients see treatment options they can consider, find clinical trials they can join and will help aggregate myeloma stories from thousands of patients to help doctors and researchers develop new hypotheses. What treatment options are the best for which type of patient? All myeloma is different and should be treated individually. That can only happen when doctors can start to see patterns of treatments that work or don't for each type of patient.
Patients hold the key to gather their information that is sitting in 11 different databases today. And only 8% of our information is stored in a hospital's electronic health record, so a patient is the only one who can pull it all together and then share it in an anonymous way with researchers who can use it to identify potentially curative hypotheses.
If you are a myeloma patient, please join HealthTree today! Not only will it help you navigate your care today, your myeloma story and that of thousands of others will help us all find a cure faster.
Thank you to the Today Show including Sheinelle Jones, Al Roker, Dylan Dryer, and Craig Melvin for bringing focus to the important new patient platform!
March 20, 2019
The Today Show featured Jenny and Paul Ahlstrom as they described a new patient platform they created called HealthTree. The mission of HealthTree is to help doctors, researchers and patients better collaborate around each patient's treatment options, with the hope that connecting the patient data will accelerate a cure for myeloma.
A cancer diagnosis is a panic attack for anyone, but after the initial shock wears off, patients have a choice in how they respond.
about the author
Jennifer Ahlstrom
Myeloma survivor, patient advocate, wife, mom of 6. Believer that patients can contribute to cures by joining HealthTree Cure Hub and joining clinical research. Founder and CEO of HealthTree Foundation.
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