InheritedHealth™, a New Online Hereditary Health Risk Assessment Tool, Helps Consumers Identify Their Risks of Inherited Health Conditions

In time for the holidays, InheritedHealth.com, a new online tool from InformedDNA™, helps families collect their health history and assess their risk of inherited health conditions.

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Dec 15, 2014, 03:51 ET

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Dec. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- InformedDNA is proud to announce the launch of InheritedHealth.com, a unique online resource that helps families discover and understand their hereditary disease risk, on Dec. 15, 2014. As families gather to celebrate the holidays, the InheritedHealth launch is perfectly timed for gift giving and to share important health information while families are together.

InheritedHealth makes it easy to collect family health history and assess inherited health risks.

"It's most useful to discuss family health information at family gatherings, holidays or reunions when multiple family members and, often, multiple generations are present and can help recall certain details," said Jennifer McLosky, a board certified genetic counselor and analyst at InformedDNA. "We encourage everyone to try and gather as much health history information from older generations as possible. That way, it can be preserved and passed on to future generations."

Knowing family health history prompts those at risk to take extra steps to ensure optimum health, potentially saving lives.

"Up to now, the resources designed to help collect family health history were not able to analyze and make recommendations based on the data," said David Patrick Nixon, InformedDNA CEO. "InheritedHealth removes those barriers completely. Not only is it easy to continually update a family's health history as information is gathered, but the consolidated report is easy to generate and share with family members and healthcare providers, too. To be clear, InheritedHealth is not a genetic test; the software is designed to securely collect, analyze and make personalized recommendations based on the information you provide."

InheritedHealth simplifies the tasks of gathering and updating family health history. Registering at InheritedHealth.com is easy and takes only a few minutes to get started. Once the genetic health risk assessment is complete, InheritedHealth generates a Personalized Health Guide that provides a comprehensive overview of the hereditary conditions subscribers may be likely to develop or that can be passed down from generation to generation. The Personalized Health Guide pairs this information with actionable steps that can be discussed with physicians to manage risk. Each time subscribers collect a new piece of family health information and update their family history, they can produce a new Personalized Health Guide as well. The website is entirely secure and HIPPA compliant to protect subscribers' privacy as well as that of other family members.

"InheritedHealth allows people to give the gift of health to their children and themselves. In the spirit of the holiday season, we are offering this invaluable resource to families at no cost for the remainder of the year," Nixon said.

InheritedHealth's price will rise to the standard rate of $39.95 per one-year subscription on Jan. 1, 2015, and is available to both individuals and employers wishing to give the gift of health as a benefit to their employees.

A team of board certified and highly specialized genetics experts designed InheritedHealth's comprehensive assessment and the Personalized Health Guide it produces, which cover thousands of hereditary conditions, to be as accurate and up-to-date as possible based on current genomic science. Because the field of medical genetics is constantly evolving, InheritedHealth will be updated often according to new discoveries.

"Family health history is an underutilized but greatly useful genetic tool that healthcare providers need to embrace. The information it reveals helps save lives," said McLosky.

About InformedDNA:
InformedDNA helps individuals and healthcare providers accurately interpret family health history and genetics, bringing the promise of personalized healthcare to life. InformedDNA is the authority on the appropriate use of genetic testing – leveraging the expertise of the largest network of independent genetics specialists to help ensure health plans, hospitals, employers, community clinicians and patients all have access to the highest quality genetic services. InformedDNA's key offerings include clinical genetic counseling, genetic testing utilization management, and personalized hereditary risk assessment and prevention solutions. www.informeddna.com