Tag: digital health

Episode 9: Shared Decision-Making

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When it comes to making decisions in your healthcare, my guest, Dr. Minas Chrysopoulo and I present the first in a series on the topic of shared decision-making in the summary of Episode 9: Shared Decision-Making on the DiepCJourney podcast. Toliman Health was founded by Dr. Minas Chrysopoulo, an internationally recognized expert in breast cancer reconstruction and shared decision-making. Dr. Chrysopoulo is the creator of Toliman’s flagship app, Breast Advocate® As co-leads of the WHIS Shared Decision-Making Expert Group our goal is to facilitate the adoption and practice of shared decision-making (SDM) throughout healthcare systems and across all medical disciplines. The “why” of the informative approach to decisions in healthcare is multi-faceted. It encompasses the patient’s preferences, values, support system, and expectations for outcomes. Back to Our Favorite Topic: Shared Decision-Making It is important in so many ways. Shared decision-making is not actually a new concept. It has been around since the 1980’s. Being one of Continue Reading →

How Digital Health Can Enhance your Breast Reconstruction Decision

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Patients become unintended experts on a topic they likely had no intention of being an authority on. When you receive a diagnosis of breast cancer one of the biggest challenges is understanding the medical information you have to digest and make sense of for your own future health. How will these decisions affect your body, lifestyle, and long-term survival? If you are facing loss of breast due to a mastectomy, things can become a step more complex when digesting and understanding your options. Luckily, we live in an era where we have access to digital tools to assist with these decision processes. Digital health can improve your breast reconstruction decision. Defining Digital Health First let’s define what digital health is. It encompasses many platforms. Digital health can but is not limited to entities such as virtual consultations via your computer or phone and apps specific to a topic you need Continue Reading →

Breast Advocate App: An Interview with Founder Minas Chrysopoulo, MD

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We are fortunate to live in a time when apps on mobile devices become tools to help us with our treatment options for a number of health-related issues. The focus of my blog and mission of my nonprofit Foundation is to empower women and men with information to make an informed decision about options for breast reconstruction after mastectomy. I have the distinct pleasure to present the reader with a decision tool, the Breast Advocate App and an interview with Founder, Minas Chrysopoulo, MD, FACS. I began my work as a patient advocate in early 2015 shortly after having my successful DIEP flap breast reconstruction. At the time of my second diagnosis in April of 2014, I was given all my options for breast reconstruction by my breast surgeon. I am grateful to her. I was handed a packet of brochures from implant manufacturers, local support groups, photos and explanation Continue Reading →