The Interview asks important questions regarding your health. Read the instructions on each screen, and answer all the questions that you can. Each section of the Interview provides information to help you answer the questions. To answer the Interview questions, make your selections from dropdown lists or, in some cases, type directly into the fields. It is okay to leave answers blank. The more answers that you provide, the better the Interview can help evaluate your risks of heart disease, diabetes anti cancer. To change any information that you enter, take the Interview at any time by selecting Take Interview in the Personal Medical Record screen. The Interview asks you to set health targets and to schedule Calendar Events to achieve them. You can schedule other Calendar Events later in the Smart Health Calendar. If you re-take the Interview, you will not see the plans that you have already scheduled from the Interview. Do not schedule them again, or you may see multiple entries in your daily Calendar.

This advances to the next screen. Continue until the end of the Interview.

You are now done taking the Interview. When you are done taking the Interview, some of the information is loaded into your personal Smart Health Calendar and related Health Managers. When you are not sure about setting goals, targets, or target ranges, accept the recommended settings. Don't worry about answering all the questions exactly - you can modify all settings and plans directly in the Smart Health Calendar and the Health Managers. We'll show you where to change them later. When you have finished the Interview, all the plans that you scheduled including your exercise, blood glucose tests, insulin and medications appear in the Smart Health Calendar. If you want to schedule an exercise that is not listed in the exercise list in the Interview, it might be on the longer list in the Smart Health Calendar. If not, you can create your own exercise later in the Smart Health Calendar. If you need to schedule more than four drugs, you can schedule a drug from the Drugs list in the Smart Health Calendar. If you don't find your drug on the Drugs list, you can go back to the Interview to create one. If you re-take the Interview, you will not see the plans that you have already scheduled from the Interview. Do not schedule them again, or you may see multiple entries in your daily Calendar.

Now that you have completed the Interview you'll see the Home screen. From the Home screen you can jump to any part of the program by Clicking on an area in the Home screen, or selecting Jump from the top menu bar. A jump bar is also available on the left side of every screen and consists of several buttons. Click HOME to go to the Home screen. Click CALENDAR to go to the Smart Health Calendar. If you are viewing a Health Manager report, Click CONTENTS to get back to the main screen of the Manager. FORWARD and BACK move you to the next and previous views, respectively, and HELP gets you Help.

This takes you to the Diabetes Manager.

Review your blood glucose target

Step 13 - Click 'Typical Day

Review your typical meal times and bedtime. Typical Day start times are used to associate the time you take Blood Glucose measurements with Reading names and the time you take Insulin injections with Injections names. To learn more about this, see the section, Typical Day, in the chapter, Health Managers and Reports.

Step 15 - Click 'Home'

This takes you back to the Home Screen

This takes you to the Diet&Weight Manager

Review your nutrient targets.

Step 19 - Click the List symbol

Review your nutrient order. This sets the top two nutrients in the Calendar Food lists, the top four nutrients in the Food view of the Calendar, and the top six nutrients in the LifeTime Food & Nutrient List.

Note: You can also set nutrient targets and nutrient display order in the Smart Health Calendar by Clicking anywhere on the gray Nutrient Totals area at the bottom of the Calendar Food View.

You are now looking at the Smart Health Calendar. View Calendar Events by time of day, health category, or just by food in meals. Switch between the three Calendar views by Clicking the appropriate name tab at the bottom of the view (Schedule, Health, or Food). Some events may already be scheduled from the Interview

This selects the My Events list.

This selects the Tests list.

This highlights the blood pressure item.

A Blood Pressure Edit Dialog box appears. Fill in your information. Fill in the fields to enter this Event for 10 pm, and 140 over 85.

Calendar Events can be scheduled for multiple days.

For more information see the section, Scheduling a Repeating Event, in the chapter, Smart Health Calendar.

Step 29 - Click 'OK'

The blood pressure Event appears on your Calendar every day.

The V indicates than the Event is confirmed. This feature is a toggle. If you click it again, the Event is unconfirmed. Note: Health Manager Reports show only confirmed Events.

This changes your Calendar View to the Food View.

The Calendar Foods list should already appear on the right side of the screen.

An Edit Food Dialog box appears. Fill in your information. At the bottom of the Edit Food dialog box, you can decide whether or not to add this food to My Foods with the same or different name. This list includes the food to make it easy to schedule in case you eat it often. To learn to search the lists for foods, see Searching the Foods list in the chapter, Smart Health Calendar.

This schedules the food to a meal.

This takes you back to the Home Screen.

Step 37 - Click the dropdown arrow and select "Marjorie (Sample User)"

Note: if you install Balance PC over an existing MediLife database that has no sample users, and you retained the database (did not install a new one), you will not have sample users.

Now we'll go to the Diabetes Manager to review Marjorie's data.

This takes you to the Diabetes Manager.

You will see a table of all of Marjorie's confirmed Blood Glucose Events.

You'll need the date information to view the data by graph.

You are back at the contents screen of Diabetes Manager.

Step 44 - Click '02/09/97 - 02/15/97'

The date shown varies with your current date.

You will see a graph of Marjorie's confirmed Blood Glucose Events for that week.

You are back at the contents screen of the Diabetes Manager.

The Daily Analyzer presents several health Events in one report. making trends easy to find, in order to help analyze your daily Events. The daily Events that are displayed include blood glucose levels, insulin and oral medications, symptoms, exercise, and nutrition.

You are back at the contents screen of the Diabetes Manager.

You will see a modal distribution of some of Marjorie's Blood Glucose Events. Modal Day shows your blood glucose readings by time of day over the time range that you select: day; week; month; quarter; and year. The gray band indicates your selected target range. The distribution of points indicates how well you are controlling your blood glucose levels - clusters of points within your target range indicate average good control for that time of day. Clusters of points spread outside the target range indicate that more control is needed for that time of day.

This takes you hack to the Home Screen.

This takes you to the Diet & Weight Manager.

This takes you to the Nutrient Audit Calories Graph. This is a bar graph of the top five foods that contribute to Marjorie's total intake of a selected nutrient. Identify foods high in that nutrient over any time period. Use this information when meal planning, in order to make substitutions in your diet - to keep your nutrient totals on target.

This takes you back to the Home Screen.

This takes you to the Library Screen. The Library offers books and lists of information about general health and diabetes.