If you’re thinking that hemophilia treatment logs are just an inconvenience in your already busy life, think again. Accurate records of past infusions are highly-essential to managing the treatment of a person with hemophilia. Many insurance companies require you to maintain treatment logs as a condition for reimbursements for factor products. And, hemophilia treatment centers and specialty pharmacies are required by law to maintain such records. They might even require you to comply with treatment tracking as part of your participation in their program.

Besides, treatment logging is easier and quicker to accomplish today thanks to electronic and Web-based tools that are becoming widely available.

Getting the facts on treatment logs just might make your own logging experiences more meaningful:

• Logs create a full history of factor treatments and provide a communication tool between patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals.
• Fill in all information that’s requested. Missing information complicates the communication process and reduces your healthcare professional’s ability to make adjustments that could improve your care.
• Data from logs helps healthcare providers connect bleeds to activities of daily living or specific events.
• Patterns of bleeds can be identified by analyzing logs. This can help predict future bleeds, which in turn can lead to adjustments in the treatment regimen.
• Maintaining the required level of factor in a patient’s blood is key to treating hemophilia. Log information helps healthcare providers adjust treatment accordingly.¹
• Paper logs are being replaced with Web-based and electronic tools such as hand-held devices. These provide extra flexibility, accuracy, convenience and security for patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals.
• These new digital logs also provide advancements for analyzing data, which in turn could lead to improved treatment for patients.