FAQ



What Is HHP?

What Do I Do First?

Who Can Be A Member?

How Do I Submit A Case?

What Is Case Admin?

What Are My Comments?

What Are Awaiting comments?

What Are Outcomes?

What Is Feedback?

How Do I Browse Cases?

How Is Case Privacy Protected?

What Is The Knowledge Database?

Who Can Submit A Case?

Who Can Comment On A Case?

Is There A Fee To Join HHP?



What is HHP?

HHP is a living free online Integrative Medicine social network offering case submission, commenting and feedback / patient outcomes service. Cases, typically difficult ones, are submitted and commented on by other members (medical professionals and patient advocates) of the HHP member social network.

The Human Health Project is a health care technology platform that has the potential to shift the paradigm of medicine as it is practiced today. For the first time, a community of physicians, health care workers and patient advocates from allopathic and alternative medicine traditions will be integrated to provide free, accessible health solutions as a basic human right for all.

What Do I Do First?

Click the "Join Network" button on the website and fill out the HHP Member application form. On this page you enter your email address as well as choose a username and password. Below this part of the page you are asked to fill in your basic information, after which you click on the "Create a New Account" button. It's that simple.

Who Can Be A Member?

Medical professionals, doctors of all types, nurses, patient advocates and other allied health specialists. Each member application is reviewed in its own right. Even if you do not have qualifications, if HHP considers your medical experience to be of very high value and that you will be able to use HHP effectively as a member, you may be accepted as a member.

How Do I "Submit a Case"?

Once you are a HHP member and log in, go to your "My Home" page and click on the link "Submit a Case" located on the far left side of the page under the heading "Cases". You will be taken to the "Case Submission" page which will have a randomly assigned number for your case.

Step 1: Fill out the requested information as well as upload any photographs pertaining to the case on this page. Please press the "Next" button.

Step 2: The Diagnosis page. Here you enter any and all diagnoses given for the case. After having done that please press the "Next" button.

Step 3: On this page you may write any additional diagnoses and treatments that have been employed to remedy the case. After this step, you simply press the "Submit button".

Remember to omit any identifying information in your case submission. All HHP case data is anonymous. The “Case Admin” will screen for anonymity and return a submission that contains data with identifying information.

What Is "Case Admin"?

A "Case Admin" is who originally receives the submitted case and approves it or returns it if additional information is required. Once the submitted case is approved, the "Case Admin" allocates the case to one or more members for "Comments". When the “Comments” made by the members are returned to the "Case Admin", they are subject to approval. If the comment is not approved, it will be returned to the appropriate member or members. If the case is approved, the "Comments" are sent to the member who submitted the case.

What Are “My Comments”?

“My Comments” are where you can see “Comments” received from other HHP members regarding a case that you have submitted. Prior to commenting on a case members can ask questions about a case to the case submitting member. When a member leaves a “Comment” it is archived into the HHP system and can later be retrieved along with other information on the case including "Case Submission" and "Outcomes” data. This is the data that will accumulate over time to form the HHP "Knowledge Database."

What Are "Awaiting Comments"?

These are cases, which have been allocated to an HHP member by the “Case Admin” and are awaiting comments from a member.

What Are "Outcomes"?

The “Case Admin” asks a case submitting member to complete an “Outcomes” template at regular intervals in order to learn which comments might have been of help with a case that has been submitted. This “Outcomes” data is later tied to the case submission and comments data and is entered into the HHP Knowledge Database.

What Is "Feedback"?

"Feedback" is the information members’ give about other members where they rate and share their experience in working with that member. The Case Admin screens all “Feedback”.

How Do I "Browse cases"?

From your "My Home" page, click on the words "All Cases" or "My Cases" located on the far left side of the page under the heading "Cases", depending on which set of cases you want to view.

How Is Case Privacy Protected?

All data collected on HHP is anonymous, please ensure that any data you upload is free of any identifying data. All data submitted on HHP is checked for anonymity and quality at every stage, case submission, commenting, outcomes /feedback. This allows data to be used for search and research purposes.

What Is The "Knowledge Database"?

The HHP Knowledge Database is the accumulation of case data, including “Case Submission”, “Comments” and “Outcomes data. Over time, the HHP database will accumulate. In the future, a version of the Knowledge Database will be made available to HHP members and the public.

Who Can Submit A Case?

All Members of the HHP Network including medical professionals, patient advocates and other allied health specialists, may submit cases. The purpose of case submission is to provide all members who are providing care access to the collective expertise of health professionals, from a myriad of disciplines, around the world. Cases are categorized so that everything from discussions to the final outcome and case analysis is searchable by others. Basic patient demographic and historical information will be collected along with the presenting diagnosis.

Who Can Comment On A Case?

Case discussion is conducted as a team approach, centering on the members whose specialty is most germane to the patient's needs, but yet open to all members who may have information relevant to the patient's needs. For example, a case may be submitted for a trauma patient suffering from serious physical injury. Case discussion may start with Primary care doctors advising on wound treatment, or medications, and then expand to surgical issues. Other HHP members may advise the case submitter on the psychological issues the patient may be dealing with, and yet others may submit information on alternative holistic treatments, or how to access to medical devices that might be needed in the healing process.

Is There A Fee To Join HHP?

No, membership is free of charge. HHP is funded by donations only.