Pictal Health
Turning health histories into visual stories
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Prep for your next doctor visit
Prep for your next doctor visit
Reduce stress and make the best use of time with these tips from patients and doctors
Family care coordination, with visuals
Family care coordination, with visuals
Can we stop telling our family members’ health stories over and over?
A mother’s workload, visualized
A mother’s workload, visualized
Mother’s day has just come and gone. While I’m not a mom myself, I appreciate the moms in my life and how hard they work. A few years ago…
Visualizing the Long Covid experience
Visualizing the Long Covid experience
How visuals can help us understand and communicate about our Long Covid journey and symptoms
Annual Report: Year 2 of Pictal Health
Annual Report: Year 2 of Pictal Health
Last year I put together an annual report of progress and pains related to starting a company. Now, a year later, what’s…
How visual health histories can help military veterans
How visual health histories can help military veterans
Last summer I had the opportunity to help 10 local military veterans create a visual timeline of their health history. This is what I do —…
Putting your life in order
Putting your life in order
How visual health timelines might help people with PTSD
Notes from the field of visual health mapping
Notes from the field of visual health mapping
It’s been awhile since my last update, and I want to share some more nuggets of insight I’ve gained while conducting the business of…
Annual Report: One year of Pictal Health
Annual Report: One year of Pictal Health
One year ago, on my 40th birthday, I fired up the Vermont Secretary of State website and filed a new business, Pictal Health. I bought a…
The Myth of the Poor Historian
The Myth of the Poor Historian
Recently I was in D.C. at the Health Datapalooza conference giving a presentation on Pictal Health, the company I’ve been starting to help…
It’s Complicated
It’s Complicated
Case studies: visualizing complex health histories & symptoms for patients with rare and mystery conditions
From Pile to Smile
From Pile to Smile
Insights from transforming a friend’s big stack of medical records into a visual story
The limits of health data aggregation
The limits of health data aggregation
Why our health records don’t tell our whole stories
Draw your problem
Draw your problem
Your hand, a pen and some paper are your greatest problem-solving tools
What’s the business model for Pictal Health?
What’s the business model for Pictal Health?
No really, you tell me.
Life mapping vs. health tracking
Life mapping vs. health tracking
When I tell (and show) people what I’m working on with Pictal Health, a way to visualize and map out patients’ health histories, I see…
‘A safe space to draw’
‘A safe space to draw’
Insights from leading a visual thinking workshop, and how drawing can transform the way we work
Being seen, feeling heard
Being seen, feeling heard
Reflections from working with patients to visualize their health
I’ll fall in love with your beautiful health story
I’ll fall in love with your beautiful health story
I can’t help it, I fall in love every time.
Pictal Health — Purpose, Vision and Values
Pictal Health — Purpose, Vision and Values
For the last few months I’ve been working on a new company to help patients organize and visualize their health stories — Pictal Health. I…