What it is?
Your Health Companion is a free, easy-to-use digital diary that allows you more control in the management of your cancer.
It enables you to record, monitor and communicate how you are feeling in one central place, so you can understand what impact the disease is having on your life, with a view to improving your care and treatment outcomes. At the same time Your Health Companion captures significant real-world anonymised data that can be used, together with clinical recordings, to enhance NHS services and provide opportunities for research into new cancer medicines, treatments and care solutions.
Launched by national cancer charity Lung Cancer Nurses UK (LCNUK) and developed in collaboration with Dash Global, a leading real-world data company specialising in Health Care, Your Health Companion puts patient views – or the patient voice – at the heart of research into whether services provided are actually improving patients’ health and sense of well-being.
Your Health Companion is already being rolled out in parts of the UK and has received high praise and endorsement from patient groups and leading cancer charity and advocacy partners including Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, EGFR+, ALK+ and more.
How to use it
Each month, Your Health Companion asks you to rate your general health, symptoms and quality of life by selecting a statement that best describes how you have been feeling. You can also record your experience of care, and all costs associated with managing your cancer in one central and secure place, over time. Quick and simple to use, it takes just 10 minutes per month to complete.
You are then able to see your data in easy-to-understand summary reports that you can share with your clinical team wherever you are. This ensures any changes in your condition can be accurately reviewed, quickly assessed, and better managed.
Why it can help you
Using ‘Your Health Companion’ you can:
• gain an accurate picture of how the disease is impacting your life.
• use your recordings as a focus for consultations to help healthcare providers understand and support you better.
• keep a record of any additional costs connected to your treatment.
• help enhance research and transform the way cancer care and treatment is provided in the future as they diary captures anonymous patient reported outcomes (PROMs) data, your perspective of how the illness is impacting you.
Confidential and Secure
Your Health Companion, its partners and collaborators take confidentiality of patient data extremely seriously and follow strict guidelines as set-out by Government and enforced by bodies such as Public Health England and NHS Digital.
How to sign up
Go to www.health-companion.me and download the app onto your smartphone or use via your desktop computer.
