VANCE: User Guide
Your credible source of evidence-based research, useful tools, and a private dashboard keeping your information, notes and Ai chats in one place. This guide shows you how it all fits together.
Built on evidence, organised around your healthcare journey
Vance Health Hub exists to put clinically-reviewed information and clinically-grounded tools in your hands — not vague advice from an anonymous forum. Articles are clinically reviewed, the calculators are built on validated frameworks (MUST, IBD-NST, GLIM), and every VANCE-Ai answer comes with its sources attached. The rest of this guide follows the same four steps most people move through:
Research
Use the Discovery Suite to find clinically-reviewed articles and recipes filtered to your exact condition and topic — not a generic search engine result.
Personalise
Complete your Health Profile once during onboarding, and the articles, tools and recommendations across the whole site adjust to you.
Ask
Get a sourced, plain-language answer from VANCE-Ai the moment a question comes up, and keep the conversation for later.
Track & Share
Run a calculator or quiz whenever things change, save every result and note to My Dashboard, and bring the record to your next appointment.
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Getting started in under 2 minutes
- Create your free account. Click “Join For Free” from the homepage or the footer — no payment details, ever.
- Land straight in My Dashboard. Confirming your account takes you directly to your personal dashboard, not a generic welcome screen.
- Complete your Health Profile. A few quick questions personalise the articles, tools and recommendations you see across the whole site.
From that point on, Vance Health Hub isn't a generic health website — it's tuned to your condition, so the research, tools and AI answers you see are actually relevant to your own healthcare journey.
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The Content Discovery Suite
Instead of scrolling an endless archive, the Discovery Suite on the homepage lets you filter every article, recipe and resource by condition, topic and content type at once. Results update as you filter, and any search you like can be saved to My Searches in your dashboard for one-click access next time.
Because every result comes from clinically-reviewed content rather than the open web, you can trust what you find enough to actually bring it to your next appointment — that's the difference between researching your condition and just searching for it.
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Answer sourced
Ask VANCE-Ai anything
The VANCE-Ai button lives in the header on every page — open it any time to ask a question in plain language. On articles, you can also highlight any passage of text and ask VANCE-Ai about it directly. Every conversation is saved automatically to My VANCE-Ai in your dashboard, so nothing gets lost.
Because every answer is sourced rather than invented, you can check where it came from yourself, or bring the saved conversation straight to your clinician instead of trying to remember what an AI told you weeks ago.
Chat with VANCE-AiFree health tools, no signup required
Every clinical tool is free to use on the spot. Register only if you want your results saved automatically to your dashboard. Each one is built on a validated clinical scoring framework, so you get a real number to act on instead of a guess — and because every result is saved with a date, running the same tool again later shows you a trend, not just a snapshot.
9 quick questions
Gastro Health Survey
A short, evidence-based questionnaire covering symptom patterns, dietary triggers and lifestyle factors. Get an instant summary you can share with your clinician.
Open Gastro Health Survey →
19 recipes ready
IBD Recipes & Meal Planner
Browse EPA-rich, gut-friendly recipes with full nutrition data and build a weekly meal plan.
Open IBD Recipes & Meal Planner →
11-step screener
Malnutrition Calculator
An 11-step malnutrition risk screener combining MUST, IBD-NST and GLIM criteria into a single, actionable score.
Open Malnutrition Calculator →
Profile updated
Medium risk flagged
The whole guide, as a PDF
Everything on this page (every tool, every screenshot, plus a first-week plan and an appointment prep checklist) in one file you can keep on your phone or print for your next appointment.
My Dashboard ties everything together
Every tool result, saved article, AI conversation and note in one private place. It's where onboarding leads, and where you'll spend most of your time — the difference between researching your condition once and actually managing it over time.
- Never re-explain your history. Your Health Profile, notes and saved results are there every time you log in — no starting from zero with a new clinician or a new appointment.
- See real patterns, not memories. Run the same calculator or quiz again after a flare-up or a diet change and compare it against your last result instead of relying on how you think you felt.
- Walk into appointments prepared. Open My Dashboard on your phone in the waiting room and show your clinician actual numbers, saved articles and notes — not a vague description.
Everything, one click away
The dashboard sidebar groups every feature into three areas — your health record, your learning, and your communication — so nothing is ever more than one click from the home tab.
Open My DashboardDashboard
Your home base — a snapshot of saved tools, recent notes, unread messages and your Health Profile progress.
My Profile
Your name, avatar, bio and contact details.
Health Profile
Your health discovery results and clinical profile questionnaire — this is what personalises content across the site.
My Tools
Every saved calculator result (Malnutrition Calculator, Gastro Health Survey), so you can track changes over time.
My Reading List
Articles you've bookmarked to come back to.
My Courses
Learning content you've enrolled in.
My Searches
Saved Discovery Suite searches, one click from your last filter.
My Notes
Private notes only you can see — jot down questions for your next appointment.
My VANCE-Ai
Every saved conversation with VANCE-Ai, so answers stay findable later.
My Messages
Broadcast messages from the Vance Medical team.
My Documents
Upload letters, results and care plans, then ask VANCE-Ai about them directly. Off by default — enabled deliberately per site.
3 updates
Profile saved
IBD Flare Nutrition Checklist — saved
The Malabsorption Diet Explained — saved
"Ask GP about iron levels" — added
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Free registration takes under a minute and unlocks every feature in this guide.