About Joy
A health advocate who believes your story matters to your care.
Every experience I’ve had has led me to this gap.
I’m Joy Duginske — a health and wellness advocate focused on helping individuals take a more informed, active role in their care.
My career spans health insurance, social services, medical clinic communications, and private health coaching, giving me a broad, systems-level perspective on healthcare. Across each role, my work has centered on empowering people to better understand and manage their health.
My perspective is also personal. After navigating a complex diagnosis myself, I came to see knowledge and communication as the foundation of effective healthcare. Having a Personal Health Timeline™ can fundamentally change how healthcare is delivered.
My graduate training in Communication, along with research experience in health communication, deepened my understanding of how clarity — or the lack of it — shapes the patient experience. Time and again, I’ve seen the same challenge: patients and providers often lack access to a clear, complete health story at the moment it matters most.
I created Record Your Health History to close that gap. By organizing and preserving essential health information, I help ensure that patients, families, and providers can make more informed decisions with confidence. My goal is simple: to bring clarity, continuity, and empowerment to the healthcare experience.
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A foundation built across
education, training, and practice.
Foundation
Graduate work focused on interpersonal and organizational communication — including supporting a professor's research in health communication. That academic lens is embedded in how every Personal Health Timeline™ is built and delivered.
Health Coach
Trained through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) and the Duke Integrative Medicine Health Coaching Training Program. A core principle of health coaching is patient empowerment — the belief that understanding your full health history leads to better care and more meaningful conversations with your providers.
in Healthcare
Roles spanning health insurance communications, social services, integrative medicine clinic patient education, and private health coaching — each offering a front-row view of where the healthcare system serves people well, and where it consistently falls short.
"The record your doctors wish you had — and the one that empowers you to know your own story."
— Joy Duginske, Founder · Record Your Health History
Let's record your history together.
Your consultation is complimentary — and it's where every timeline begins.
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