HiGS Histories

Histories Essential for Our Health and Medical Care are More Important than a Physical Exam in a Doctor Office Our Health Information Gathering System – HiGS

Most People's Health Histories are in Many Places

• Has your history been taken verbally most of the time? Most histories are collected verbally during a physician-patient interview. In some situations some doctors are starting to use computer software to collect histories, although still not the norm.
• Do you have your own complete health history? Probably not.
• Have you told your family and personal history to many physicians during your lifetime so far? Most people have.
• Are you tired of telling your story repeatedly? Most likely.
• Do you feel the questions asked about your history leave out much of your history? Most probably. Most people feel they have more to say, but there is not enough time to tell their story.
• Is your history on file in many doctor offices and intuitions? Most likely.
• Have any of those histories been given to you? Probably never.

Studies from around the world show the importance of collecting and knowing histories to get good medical care and to have good health. Studies reveal that conditions and diseases can be missed when adequate and essential history is omitted during a physical examination by a physician in a doctor office. ^{[1] [2]}

Comprehensive accurate histories are needed to identify risk, make diagnoses, and save time, suffering, and money. Time constraints reduce opportunities for accurate and more comprehensive histories to be collected by physicians and healthcare professionals. Their time costs money.

Studies suggest, "Physicians using electronic health records preferentially structure interviews around data-gathering demands rather than patients' own narrated accounts". ^{[3] [4]} This results in lost opportunities for gathering histories and patients' powerful stories. Screening to gather an individual's history is a more sensitive tool than the physical examination. Cursory examination often fails to uncover problems. ^[5][6]

In the absence of genetic testing, studies suggest that family history can be used as a tool to form risk into layers for common chronic diseases; thereby identifying individuals with increased disease susceptibility. ^[7] High-risk people are missed by their primary care physicians due to lack of genetic evaluation. ^[8]

HiGS histories can enable the 'ferreting-out' of potential problems and risk factors, supplying individuals with a missing piece of health management and healthcare. This is needed since time in doctor offices has become limited, resulting in essential thorough histories not being collected and risk missed. Inner Reach^® Corporation is a Stewardship for Humanity™ that carefully manages and cares for your history information with HiGS.