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Joseph Sirven

My Epilepsy Diary - Why You Should Recommend it to Your Patients

Joseph I. Sirven, M.D.
Editor-in-Chief, Epilepsy.com/Professionals

Do your patients frequently forget to take their medications? When your patients recall past seizures, do you believe that critical details may be missing? Do you wish you could analyze the effectiveness of your patients’ treatment plans using trend data over the long term?

Introducing My Epilepsy Diary, the new consumer health product from epilepsy.com!

Help your patients help you to obtain more complete and more detailed information about their epilepsy. Recommend that they adopt My Epilepsy Diary as part of their daily routines. Every time your patients experience a seizure, side effect, mood change, or other event relevant to their epilepsy, they can log into My Epilepsy Diary from a browser or smart phone and immediately document what occurred.

My Epilepsy Diary is pre-populated with many common scenarios, so creating new events and editing past events is fast and easy. The data is less error-prone than other record-keeping methods because patients are guided through a series of user-friendly Web pages. My Epilepsy Diary also allows multiple caregivers to submit entries for a single patient.

If your patients frequently forget to take their medicines, they can set up email or text message reminders. If they take additional medicines other than for epilepsy, you’ll have those details at hand during the evaluation process.

Your patients can print out reports of events to date and bring them to doctors’ visits. Each report contains not only recent seizures, but also historical trends that may indicate a change in the treatment plan. Non-identifying trend data can be used by researchers to accelerate new treatments, helping patients for whom current treatment options are ineffective in achieving seizure control.

Better quality data allows more effective treatment, a win for patients and caregivers as well as for doctors and nurses. Try My Epilepsy Diary today and recommend it to your epilepsy patients!

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New on Epilepsy.com Professionals During November

During the month of November on epilepsy.com we will continue highlighting new topics and issues that arise from the epilepsy community. We have one “Hallway Conversations” that we will be highlighting this month.

Our program is devoted to the topic of “Post-tramatic Epilepsy”. We will be speaking with Dr. Dan Lowenstein, Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco.

Please look at the new Medication Compliance education program jointly sponsored by ETP and AES. This program is eligible for CME credit.

In addition we continue to update all of our other topic areas on the website and we hope that you will enjoy the various content features in epilepsy.com.

Joseph Sirven, M.D.
Editor-in-Chief