Empowering Girls and Women: Our Health Series Just for You

When LifeOnKey ™ was launched, Dr. Linda Harnevo, as well as the rest of the launch team, realized that the LifeOnKey platform would have enormous potential in many different applications.

I came to that very same conclusion when I had my first chance to look at the LifeOnKey ™ technology. Consequently, when I joined LifeOnKey last fall, my first order of business was to work with the LOK team to conceive and develop a LifeOnKey strategy and product-line for women and girls.

Why are women and girls a priority? Well, there are three, very compelling reasons:

• Women are 80% of family caregivers, whether for their immediate families, the families of their children or spouse, or of other loved ones.

As a result, most adult women are, on a daily basis, making important health and medical decisions, in a way that their male counterparts hardly ever do. This is true regardless of income level; whether the woman works outside the home; and even whether those cared-for live close-by or far-away.

• Women are the primary, health-care decision makers in most families.

Did you know that, in order to help make decisions about health and medical treatments, or providers, or other medical or healthcare services, over 80% of Internet research is undertaken by adult women caring for others?

Then, almost all the time, these women make the arrangements for the care they’ve concluded is best; manage the subsequent daily decision-making–from the littlest issues to the biggest ones; arrange the logistics, again both big and small; and, at the same time, continue to provide the love and attention their families need.

• Women have a unique health lifecycle, so that while women share many health and medical experiences with men, the female reproductive health experience makes our lives very different.

Whether, for example, the female reproductive-health experience is the onset of menstruation, or the decision to become pregnant, or the experience of menopause, women–at all stages of their lives– look for assistance, support and guidance

The capacity of the LOK technology to address these challenges in the lives of girls and women, by creating the universal ability to keep track of one’s medical and health experience-anywhere-will improve lives, beginning with the girls and women the LOK WGHS was designed for.

Consequently, our goals for the LOK WGHS are to:

• build every girl’s and woman’s individual capacity to manage her life more healthfully, and, in the process, create life-affirming strategies for herself;

• create unique women’s and girls’ communities, across all borders of technology, and girls’ and women’s health and life experience, nationhood, space, time, race and ethnicity;

• provide a unique dataset for research on health and medical problems affecting women and girls; and, in partnership with other female-health-focused organizations;

• enable girls, women and their families to live the best lives possible.

Here is how the LOK Women’s and Girls’ Health Series is organized:

LOK WGHS is organized—as an accompaniment to the basic LifeOnKey ™ software —according to the phases of the female reproductive lifecycle—girlhood, fertility and maturity—in order to:

• recognize and provide health guidance and tools for life-changing points in that cycle, as well as for illnesses that women and girls’ experience uniquely, or more frequently than men, and to provide

• in-depth modules for certain normative, female conditions, such as pregnancy.

Consider this:

As CEOS, would-be Presidents and other leaders in the U.S. and global health care, political and business worlds increasingly recognize the lifesaving importance of electronic health records, success in this enormous marketplace will depend upon the everyday decisions women make.

It is in this context that LOK will launch the LOK WGHS, which will make it possible for girls and women to improve their lives and opportunities, by helping them manage their health and wellness.

–Rebecca Sive, Vice President, Women’s Network

U.S. LifeOnKey, Inc.