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A more comprehensive patient health record app

At Patient.com, we understand that managing multiple providers and patient portals can be a chore. Trying to access all of your health records, lab results, appointments, and estimates in different places is time-consuming and inconvenient. But now, there’s a better way.

Patient.com is a single, easy-to-use app where we help you gather and access all of your health information in one place. No more jumping from portal to portal, trying to keep track of everything. Patient.com provides a better way to manage your health information and make your life easier.

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Good news for patients! The 21 st Century Cures Act allows us to bring all of your electronic health information (EHI) together in one convenient location. Upon a patient’s request, we gather all of your EHI from your entire health team and store it in the Patient.com app. This makes it easy for you to access, use, and share your health information with any provider at any time, regardless of network or affiliation. Having a single app provides relief from no longer having to navigate multiple patient portals or personal health records to manage your healthcare, making life just that much easier.

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April 5, 2021, was the deadline for regulated actors to comply with the federal rule on  Interoperability, Information Blocking , mandated by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC)  21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act). The Cures Act requires healthcare providers to share electronic health information with patients without delay or charge. Patients have the right to access, exchange, and use their electronic health information (EHI). At Patient.com, we believe the democratization of health data is critical to helping all people become better consumers of healthcare.

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One app that does it all.

A single patient health record app that helps you manage your health records, doctor’s appointments, medications, allergies, insurance information, medical bills, and more

• Store and share your health history, allergies, medications, vaccinations, insurance cards, and more with any medical provider you visit, ensuring that everyone involved in your care has the information they need when and where they need it.
• Keep track of and respond to upcoming appointments and complete pre-registration paperwork within the app.
• Review cost estimates before you receive care and view your post-care medical bills via the app.
• Search for a provider and add to favorites

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How to Keep Track of Your Health Information

Methods of tracking your health range from patient portals and mobile phone apps to paper copies.

This article is based on reporting that features expert sources.

How to Track Your Health Information

In a perfect world, your health information would start following you from the moment you’re born. Every documented detail – vital signs, doctor visits, medical test results, diagnoses, prescriptions and hospital stays – would trail you like a magnificent magnetic cape, a vast health history attached to you and accessible in one convenient spot.

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Unfortunately, the world has yet to develop a system capable of tracking the volumes of health data you generate. You’re left to gather it on your own from each provider, stitching together a patchwork of medical minutiae and milestones stretching across the decades.

“It can become overwhelming, and for some it’s seen as an additional burden of disease or care,” says Kelly Batista, executive director of the Brian D. Jellison Cancer Institute at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in Florida.

How do you tackle the challenge? It boils down to four methods.

Use Patient Portals

Patient portals are secure websites that allow you to access your medical information with a particular provider – such as a doctor’s office or a hospital – 24 hours a day.

“Those portals include information about your medical history, test results and interactions with the provider. They also allow you to communicate with providers, ask questions and schedule appointments,” Batista says.

Portals also enable you to:

• View notes your doctor has written during or after your visit.
• Download copies of your medical records.
• See which medications your provider has prescribed and request refills.
• Make payments to your provider.
• Update your insurance information.
• Take part in telehealth visits (depending on the provider).

On some portals, you can even add your own health observations. “It’s a private space for consumers to document information that isn’t accessible to the care team. For example, you can say what your mood is or add information you obtained from your fitness tracker . It’s a repository where you can keep all of that information in one location,” says Rema Padman, a health care informatics, analytics and operations researcher and Trustees Professor of Management Science and Healthcare Informatics at Carnegie Mellon University .

Use Mobile Health Apps

You can also keep track of your health information with mobile health apps – applications or programs that you download to a smartphone. “There are more than 300,000 health-related apps to track walking, sleep, fitness, diet, chronic disease like diabetes and much more. These apps become useful not only to track health conditions, but also to manage day-to-day events,” Padman says. “We’re also seeing apps and wearables provided by health care providers to monitor patients at high risk for adverse events, so they can intervene early and prevent emergency visits or hospital admissions.”

Many apps enable you to access your entire patient portal, including the same information you’d find on the website version and the same ability to communicate with your medical team, schedule appointments and update information. That can be handy if you’re on the go or you’re at a doctor appointment and need to share information with a provider who doesn’t have access to it.

You may also be able to download your patient portal information to other mobile health apps, such as those that help you manage pregnancy or chronic disease. That puts even more information in one easily accessible place.

Keep Hard Copies

The old-fashioned way to track health information is with hard (paper) copies of your medical records. You’ll need to request them and then pick them up in a provider’s office or have them sent by U.S. mail.

Once you obtain paper records, it helps to keep them organized in folders, boxes or three-ring binders. “For example, a three-ring binder with tabs can easily organize a patient’s medical information in categories such as allergies, medications, diagnostic scans, and lab work. Assembling their own binder allows for patients to easily reorganize and add information as needed. A helpful addition to binders is adding a calendar, which allows patients to keep track of their upcoming appointments and events,” says Alexis Eastes, a patient navigator based in Venice, Florida.

Like health apps, you can bring hard copies of your records to doctor visits for your own reference or a doctor’s review.

Keep Soft Copies at Home

Another way to track health information is by obtaining soft copies – files that exist only on a computer screen.

These files can include copies of medical records that are provided to you by:

• A CD (an older format still commonly used in medical offices, especially for imaging tests ).

Note that health care providers are required by law to deliver records in an electronic format whenever the provider has the ability to produce that type of copy (not just if it’s company policy). You can also create your own soft copies of medical records by scanning paper records into a digital format. Once they’re scanned, name the files and organize them on your hard drive.

Still another type of soft record is a spreadsheet. Create one on your computer to help you track doctor or hospital visits (include the dates), medications, diagnoses and tests (include the results).

All soft medical records can be loaded onto a USB drive and taken to a doctor appointment for review.

Downsides to Consider

Tracking your health information can have downsides – some minor and some major.

For patient portals and mobile health apps:

• They aren’t accessible to everyone . You’re out of luck if you’re not tech-savvy or you don’t have internet access via computer or smartphone.
• They may charge fees. Some health apps charge annual or monthly subscription fees.
• They aren’t all linked. Unless all of your providers are in one large health care system, it’s unlikely they’ll be able to see information in all of your different portals and apps. “These are piecemeal solutions,” Padman says. “What you do with an app is captured there, but it’s probably not the information that your health care provider or pharmacy has.”
• They may be vulnerable to hackers. “If there’s a data breach, what are the policies to address those consequences? Would you be alerted?” Padman asks.
• They may own your information. Companies spend billions of dollars every year analyzing consumer health data, and it’s unclear which organizations do it and who cashes in on your information. “It’s a murky area,” Padman says. “What will they do with your information? Will it be distributed or sold to marketing organizations?”
• They require a little homework before use. Make sure any health app or patient portal you use is subject to federal privacy rules (it’s more likely among apps and portals from large health organizations and physician offices); proves that it can securely store your data; and states clearly that it won’t use, sell or share information without your permission.

For hard or soft copies of your medical records:

• Collecting them takes a lot of work. “We recommend that patients get a printout of their visit notes, their lab results or any other diagnostic testing before they leave the office. At least that gives them a running start,” says Betty Long, president and CEO of a nurse advocate group in Flourtown, PA.
• You may be charged for copies. Fees are allowed to cover only the cost of supplies, labor and postage.
• You may have to wait for copies. A provider has 30 days to comply with a records request, and in some cases that can be extended to 60 days.

And any type of medical record (even electronic records) can get lost or develop errors if information is entered incorrectly. Stay on top of it by regularly checking and updating your records.

Final Advice

It’s not enough to have medical records stored where you can find them; you must understand what they mean. “It’s a lot of information,” Batista says. “That’s where you have the option through portals to communicate with your provider, ask questions and get feedback. Also, in our program, patient navigators step in with education.”

No matter which method you use to track your information, experts agree that it’s worth the effort. “Everyone has a different way of consuming the data. What’s important is that you find a way that works best for you,” Batista notes. “It’s empowering you as a patient.”

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Batista is executive director of the Brian D. Jellison Cancer Institute at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in Florida.

Padman is a healthcare informatics, analytics and operations researcher and Trustees Professor of Management Science and Healthcare Informatics at Carnegie Mellon University.

Eastes is a patient navigator based in Venice, Florida.

Long is President and CEO of a nurse advocate group in Flourtown, Pennsylvania.

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Maintain your health and mind with these 15 medical apps

There’s a variable swath of free and premium medical apps on the market, some of which allow you to better understand pharmaceuticals while others work to diagnose your symptoms and prep you for an unforeseen medical emergency. Below are a few of our current favorites for keeping you in the know. They certainly shouldn’t replace your routine trip to the doctor, but they might just make things a bit easier.

5 helpful medical apps

Micromedex ($3).

Micromedex is a simple pharmaceutical reference app with features such as proper drug dosage and medicine recommendations. You can search the name of a specific drug to find out how it should be taken, as well as any potential side effects. You can also search by ailment for drug recommendations that will combat your medical problem, from the standard fever to lice control. Micromedex is in-depth, yet simplistic, so anyone can quickly find what they’re looking for in a pinch.

For someone studying medicine, working as a medical professional, or just interested in medical news, UpToDate is a great way to keep track of medical advancements and news. You can look at the “What’s New” section to peruse headlines, or you can search for specific topics. Along with articles, UpToDate provides videos on medical procedures and allows you to email or bookmark any page, so you can start a conversation with a colleague or save it for future reference.

Johns Hopkins ABX Guide

A comprehensive reference app, Johns Hopkins ABX Guide allows you to search for information on medications and treatments regarding various illnesses. Plug in a drug and see a list of recommended dosages, side effects, and restrictions on behavior while you’re taking it. The app also offers evidence-based recommendations, giving you a better idea of whether a medication is right for your particular lifestyle. However, the best feature remains the comprehensive table that breaks down drug costs.

Red Cross First Aid

Accidents happen, and honestly, we don’t always know what to do when they occur. That said, the Red Cross’ official First Aid app provides simple step-by-step instructions to guide you through everyday first aid scenarios, whether talking asthma attacks or broken bones. It also supplies you with a host of infromative quizes and safety tips regarding natural disasters such as hurricanes, and given that it preloads all content in advance, you never have to worry about whether you have cellular service.

MyChart allow you to access your medical records on your phone at any time. You can quickly see which vaccinations you’ve had and when at a glance, along with the last time you visited the doctor and which prescriptions you’re taking. You can even send a non-urgent message to your clinic and receive a response within a couple days, schedule visits from directly within the app, and request prescription refills. Best of all, you can see all your information online if you can’t access it due to cellular outages.

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Epocrates takes reference apps to a whole new level. Not only does the robust offering supply basic information regarding the side effects and dosage amounts of various prescription drugs, but it also allows you to contact their manufacturer directly. If you are having a hard time finding your medication, you can also use the app to find providers and insurance information. Other hallmarks includes its ability to perform dozens of calculations and identify pills using their imprint code or physical characteristics.

Doctor on Demand

If you’ve ever wanted a doctor in your pocket — a physician, pediatrician, or psychologist — Doctor on Demand is for you. The convenient app lets you instantly connect with licensed professionals via video chats and audio calls, thus granting you access to medical advice and prescriptions based on your particular symptoms without you ever having to step out the door. A standard 15-minute all will cost you $40 though, and you aren’t able to choose your doctor.

Though not necessarily a medical app per se, GlassOff might save you a visit to the optometrist. The app uses various exercises to train your eyes, subsequently working to improve the way your brain processes images by enhancing the image processing function of the brain. After taking a short test designed to assess your vision, the app encourages you to participate in a slew of daily training sessions designed as a basic workout for your eyes.

First Derm is, as you may have guessed, a dermatology app that’ll answer any questions you have about your skin; be it a seemingly harmless red bump, a rash, or a bite you don’t remember getting. The app will get your inquiry to a professional dermatologist, who will respond in 8, 24, or 48 hours. First Derm also doesn’t require a login or personal information, but instead chooses to keep everything anonymous. In the event that you’re question skin affliction does need medical attention, the app will also provide directions to the nearest pediatrician, dermatologist, or pharmacy.

You can’t always get out of a trip to the doctor, but you can make booking one easier with ZocDoc. The simple app allows you to find neighborhood doctors within your insurance network, each with verified reviews from other patients that function much like a Yelp review. You can also view open appointments and instantly book during your preferred time slot, or set checkup reminders and complete all the necessary paperwork for your medical appointment before you head to the office.

5 other useful medical apps

Medscape medpulse.

At its heart, Medscape MedPulse is a news aggregator designed for anything and everything related to the world of medicine. Once you’ve personalized the app with a girth of specialties you deem important, the app provides you with an onslaught of articles written specifically for physicians, students, and healthcare professionals. News topics cover everything from new practice guidelines and the FDA to insights from more than 150 conferences.

Managing medication can be a chore (and confusing). Thankfully, CareZone lets you curate a list of medications, dosages, and schedules directly from your photo library. The app also allows you to document and share symptoms with your family or doctor, while giving you the means to store vital insurance information and schedule reminders for upcoming appointments. The personalized health tips and ability to assign to-do lists and store important documents for future reference are only a plus.

When people think of WebMD, it’s probably just to make fun of how it’s often the first place people go when they need to figure out what illness or condition they have. The iOS app offers the same thing, but alongside that, it also allows people to set medication schedules, create a process with which they can use to meet a personal health goal, and check for local physicians and pharmacies you may not be aware of. And if you find yourself in need a first aid advice or instructions, the app has that too, and it doesn’t require an internet connection.

Prescription prices will vary depending on what you need and where you go, but GoodRx is here to make sure you know just how much your prescriptions are before you even leave home. Not only can users compare prices between pharmacies, they can also find coupons to save additional money on their purchases, which can be used from within the app itself; no need to print anything out. The app will show current cash and sale prices, as well as manufacturer coupons, and any discounts available at pharmacies nearby.

Round Health

If you often find yourself forgetting to take your medication and vitamins, or simply want something that isn’t just the iPhone’s reminder app, Round Health is something you should check out. The app’s main goal is to make it easier to remember when to take medicine, and make those reminders as effective as possible. It goes beyond the one-time reminder of the aforementioned Apple app, and lets people set “reminder windows” suited to their specific medicine and schedule. Best of all, reminders can be as complex as necessary, and can account for various dozes, show how long you’ve gone without forgetting your medicine, and even let you know when it’s time for a refill.

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Tips for Keeping Track of Doctors' Appointments

Patients forget anywhere between 40% and 80% of medical information immediately after a doctor shares it, and almost half of the information patients do remember is wrong. So it’s not surprising that many people are looking for ways to help them remember things as simple as doctor appointments. Even though most doctors’ offices remind you of upcoming appointments,  it’s not always enough. Luckily, there are many methods to help you keep track of your doctor appointments.

1. Write it down.

First and foremost: Write down your appointment date and time on a calendar that you look at every day. Create or buy a medical organizer book to not only keep track of the appointment itself, but also to make any notes about what you should prepare ahead of time or bring to the appointment.

Be sure to also write down any questions or concerns to discuss with your doctor so you don’t forget them the next time you visit, especially if your follow up is several months away. If you would rather record the appointment in your phone’s calendar, do it before you leave your doctor’s office so you don’t forget before you get home. You can set a reminder several days or even a week in advance so you’ll have plenty of notice.

If you need a more visible daily reminder, a large dry-erase board in your kitchen or office could work for you. It may be best to keep track of just a week’s worth of appointments and events using this method, but you can set up the board as a calendar for the next month if you wish. Some people prefer tracking to-do’s as lists, so you can create a simple list of upcoming appointments.

Keep in mind the number of doctors’ appointments you need to keep track of when deciding on what type of written reminders you want to use. If you have many follow-ups with different doctors over the course of several months, a wall calendar may not give you enough room to include all the information you want to remember. This is where a dedicated medical organizer may be beneficial.

2. Download an app.

If you prefer to use technology to keep track of your schedule, you can download an appointment reminder app for your cell phone or tablet. Many of these apps allow you to enter other medical information, such as test results and prescription drug lists, to help you keep track of more than just appointments. You may also be able to set up reminders for taking your medication, and some apps will let you give certain people, such as caregivers, access to the information you record.

You can choose either paid or free versions of different apps. Typically you’ll get more features with paid apps, but even more important than price is to find the one that offers what you need. Before you buy, browse your options, and read reviews and highlights about the app to see whether it’s right for you. Keep in mind the personal health information you enter into these apps is not protected under current federal law [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules],

unless your healthcare provider or your health insurance plan offers the app as a service to you. Here are some tips to protect your information:

Only download apps from trusted sources.

Read the app’s terms of service and privacy notice so you know what information the app collects and how it’s used.

Protect your mobile phone, tablet or home computer with a password.

3. Sign up for appointment reminders.

Many doctors have staff on hand to call patients a day or two ahead of scheduled appointments. Some doctors have web portals that organize your appointments and records, but you may have to register on the site before you can view your information. Other doctors will send email updates or even text reminders for upcoming appointments. Before you leave your doctor’s office, make sure the staff have your email address and mobile phone number in their records so you won’t miss them reaching out to you. If you have access to your doctor’s web portal, take a proactive approach by checking it regularly.

The method you choose to keep track of your doctor appointments is only worthwhile to the extent that it works for you. When you find an effective method you like, stick with it. Be sure to check it often so you’ll have plenty of time to request time off from work, schedule transportation, or arrange childcare before your doctor appointment.

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8 Best Patient Health Tracking Apps for Doctors

When doctors see patients, it often takes several minutes to get up-to-date information on how the patient is doing and what tests were run beforehand as well as their condition prior to showing up to the clinic or hospital. Leafing through a chart and reading scribbled handwriting can sometimes take up some much needed time. What’s more, medical professionals often need to be near the patient in order to find and consult their file.

This being said, there are many apps that allow doctors to have a clear view of their patient’s medical history at the touch of a button and from anywhere, all in a concise form and for different purposes. However, there are over 165,000 mobile health apps available, making it difficult to understand which ones are suitable for medical professionals, and which of these are actually beneficial for doctors when tracking patient information.

We have skimmed and compiled the best patient health tracking apps for medical professionals. Here are the top 8 apps:

1. Cerner Physician Express II

With a physician rating of more than 4 stars, Cerner’s Physician Express II is a great tool that complements a physician’s workflow. Clinical staff can look up patients by name or from a list and access their allergies, diagnosis, problems, medications, vitals and more. It’s a great way to quickly review clinical information.

2. Allscripts Remote+

This app allows healthcare professionals to consult their Allscripts EHR from anywhere on the go. It provides physicians with a way to accurately make decisions when they are away from the hospital and on-call or on personal time by having access to real-time patient summary info, ePrescribing, access to task lists such as lab results and more.

3. Epic Haiku

This app provides medical professionals with hospital patient lists, health summaries, clinical schedules, test results and a section to type in notes. It allows clinical staff to see a patient’s current medication and active problems in a clear and concise way. However, Haiku must be used with Epic’s Electronic Health Records.

4. Sunrise Mobile MD II

This app allows physicians to access Electronic Medical Records directly on their phone or tablet. Features such as patient lists and results for rounding, contact cards for communication, medication and order views for treatments and physician notes are all included in an effort to maximize physician productivity. This app is an extension to Sunrise Clinical Manager.

5. Care360 Mobile

This app is best used in a clinical office. It allows physicians and healthcare providers to place lab orders, access medication history and view lab results, write prescriptions, manage renewals and more from anywhere. They are also HIPAA compliant.

6. VitalHub Chart

The VitalHub Chart app provides clinicians with real-time access to patient information extracted from hospital EMR systems. Features include quick summary views, full patient charts, ability to review lab results, new critical results, orders and status and medication history as well as access patient demographics and allergies. As an app made for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals, the system provides different layouts to suit specific workflows.

7. AirStrip – Cardiology 

This app also has a 4 star rating by clinical users. Airstrip Cardiology provides accurate treatment diagnoses and a portable way to view and receive 12 lead ECG waveforms as well as scroll through 10 seconds while maintaining the 12 lead layout. The best feature of this app is that fact that it improves coordination between departments, especially between cardiology and emergency departments. Note that Airstrip OB is also available.

8. Allscripts Wand

This app provides clinicians with a great interface that improves workflow through comprehensive clinical updates such as vitals, patient history, and medications as well as a timeline view of patient information. The Allscripts Wand app is rated 4+ stars by healthcare professionals. The option of ePrescriptions is also available within the app.

These apps are great for helping healthcare professionals stay updated on patient information and have important documentation at hand, wherever they are.

This consolidated information is also as important to patients. In fact, a Vancouver doctor along with 3 developers created an application that allows patients to keep track of their medical information. MeKeeper is a “ personal health app that enables patients to record their medical history (i.e., conditions, medications, side effects, allergies, immunizations, lab results, and health care practitioners) in one place to ensure that clearly documented information is always readily accessible to patients and their doctors .”

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7 Best Medical Records Apps For Android and iOS in Case of Emergencies

What happens when you need a medical emergency? You can’t trust yourself to produce all the records yourself because you are the one in need of assistance. While, you can always digitally store all your medical records or upload to cloud services like Google Drive or Dropbox, it’s much better to have a dedicated medical records app. It can store, organize, and make it easy to share records with your doctor. They also provide added features such as tracking your insurance policies, lab reports, blood group, vaccination, allergies, and much more.

Google  discontinued Google Health  a long time ago, and  Microsoft’s Health Vault was discontinued in late 2019. So, if you are looking for alternative medical record apps, here is a list of the best medical records apps for Android and iOS users.

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Medical Records Apps

1. apple health app.

Apple has been focusing on the health industry for some time now. The health app and more recently, Apple Watch with built-in cardiogram features approved by the FDA says it all. The Health app comes pre-installed on all iPhones and iPads but is not available on Android, obviously. Apple Watch users can get a cardiogram done and store that data. Other examples include wearable tech tracking sleep cycles, sugar levels in the blood, and so on.

Apple Health also monitors how active you are, and sometimes, that data can also help the doctors.

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The Medical ID is where you will record your name, age, sex, blood group, weight, height, and contact number of a friend or relative in case of an emergency. This medical ID will be accessible from the lock screen so doctors can access it without having to unlock your phone. That would waste more time. Other details you can include are medical conditions, allergies, medications you are taking, and notes. Want to be an organ donor ? Sign up, in case you are met with an untimely death.

• Option to record name, age, sex, blood group, etc
• Syncs well with Apple Watch and maintains a record of your fitness activities
• Medical ID can be accessed from the lock screen

Like Apple Health, GenieMD is free to download and use, but unlike the former, it is available on both Android and iOS devices. Worried about data security and privacy? GenieMD is a HIPAA compliant firm which means they are required by law to maintain the privacy of records collected from patients.

The iOS app of GenieMD is currently missing from the Apple Play Store.

There is a section to record your medical histories like cholesterol, blood pressure, glucose level, BPM, and medications that you are taking and medical conditions that you might have. One neat feature is that the app will remind you to take your pills, so you never forget to pop one. You can also track when was the last time you missed your medication, useful in detecting conditions and effects on health.

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One additional feature that I like is that I can also keep a record of all my doctors. In case of an emergency, the operating doctor can consult with your family doc to know more about your health history. Finally, you can set an emergency contact but the app details don’t appear on the lock screen.

• HIPAA compliant app
• Option to record your medical histories, medications, etc
• Option to set pill reminders

Download GenieMD:  Android  |  iOS

3. MTBC PHR

What’s even better than keeping records of your medical history like medications, conditions, and symptoms? A place to keep all your lab test reports. Imagine how useful will that be? MTBC PHR (Personal Health Record) is an app where you can upload and record lab reports, prescriptions, and medical conditions.

MTBC PHR is working with several health experts to let you schedule and manage appointments remotely. Have you ever claimed insurance? There is a record of all the past claims, handily available. They want to be a one-stop destination for all your medical needs like records, medications, prescriptions, appointments, reports, insurance, claims, and even payments. One of the best medical records app I have seen and tested.

I wish they had chosen an app name that was easier to remember and share with others. Overall, it’s a useful app that you need to have on your phone if you are serious about maintaining medical records on Android and iOS.

• Additional ability to store medical lab records
• Record appointments, documents, medications, etc
• Maintains a record of your medical history

Download MTBC PHR:  Android  |  iOS

An app like MTBC PHR can be too much for someone who is looking for something simpler. What if I don’t want to share so much info with these medical records apps, or simply don’t have the time or the patience? MyChart is your app. In a toned-down approach, you can track your current conditions, medications that you are taking to tackle those conditions, and appointments if any.

These data points should be enough to help the doctors help you when you reach the hospital in an emergency. There is also an option to contact your physician from within the app. MyChart is one of the better medical records app for Android and iOS smartphones in the market right now.

• Maintains a track of your blood pressure, weight, step count, etc
• Represents data in an intuitive graph

Download MyChart:  Android  |  iOS

5. My Medical

My Medical removes all the fuss and simply focuses on the medical records aspect. As such, you won’t find additional features that we earlier saw in the above apps. One key feature is the ability to maintain medical records of the entire family on a single app. Useful when someone in your family needs help and you have to produce medical records.

You can input all your medical conditions and medications here. The app will pull appointments from the calendar app if you wish. There are several templates you can use to input and save test results. One thing that you can’t do with the Apple Health app is to upload scans of important medical documents. My Medical will let you do that. It’s the only app on the list that is not free and will cost you $4.99.

• Paid app around $4.99
• Ability to maintain records of the entire family
• Automatically syncs with phone calendar to record appointments

Download My Medical:  Android  |  iOS

6. CareZone

CareZone is a medical record app for your entire family. Unlike MTBC PHR, it doesn’t let you store lab records. However, you can still store everything else from your medical prescriptions to medicines, dosage, and refill information. Instead of typing down medicine name, you can even scan your meds. Additionally, you can also set up reminders to take your meds.

My most favorite feature is the option to store multiple doctor contact information. Along with it, you can even configure your doctor’s appointment dates and refill dates. Moreover, it also lets you take quick journal notes during these appointments and keep track of your progress.

• Scan and maintain a list of medications for your entire family
• Maintain contact information and records of multiple doctors
• Upload and back up photos

Download CareZone: Android | iOS

7. CapzulePHR

Similar to CarZone, CapzulePHR is an iOS exclusive medicine recording app for your family. But, in addition to medicines, it also lets you record your blood pressure level, temperature, and weight. It maintains a graph based on these data. Additionally, it’s the only third-party app in this list that can use biometrics. Basically, you can use Face ID to lock/unlock your data.

The most novel feature is a QR Code scanner which creates a summary of your entire medical report. So, anyone with a cam scanner can get your medical summary in seconds. Moreover, the app also supports backing up data to Dropbox and Google Drive.

• Maintains a record of your medical health like blood pressure, weight, temperature, etc
• Works well with Face ID to lock your personal data within the app

Download CapzulePHR (iOS)

If you are an Apple user, Apple Health is a must even if you are using another app to maintain your medical records. It’s very popular, and probably the first app that doctors will check in case of an emergency. MTBC PHR is the most advanced and detailed medical records app that you can get that, and it’s available on both platforms. Other than that, you can try any of the other apps depending on your location and what you need it to do.

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Gaurav Bidasaria

Gaurav is an editor here at TechWiser but also contributes as a writer. He has more than 10 years of experience as a writer and has written how-to guides, comparisons, listicles, and in-depth explainers on Windows, Android, web, and cloud apps, and the Apple ecosystem. He loves tinkering with new gadgets and learning about new happenings in the tech world. He has previously worked on Guiding Tech, Make Tech Easier, and other prominent tech blogs and has over 1000+ articles that have been read over 50 million times.

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Guide for building a doctor appointment mobile app

Feeling “meh is the worst feeling ever no matter you’ve got a sore throat or an allergy attack.

The colours fade, nothing can cheer you up and the only idea of going to the doctor’s office and waiting in the long lines makes the situation even worse.

Luckily, we’re living in the era of mobile revolution when many health issues can be done with a few swipes.

Despite being very conservative due to security matters, the healthcare industry is gradually shifting to the online realm.

You might have heard about fitness apps or health trackers. And what about online appointments?

Have you ever had a virtual visit to a physician?

In this post, we’re going to have a closer look at a rapidly growing market of doctor scheduling apps. In the first part of the article, we explore the features to make a doctor booking app; in the second part, we will focus on the must-have functionality and cost to implement it.

Why your patients want you to make a doctor scheduling app

Earlier in our blog, we were discussing the nitty-gritty of health insurance mobile app development . The medical niche is evolving very fast with lots of new apps uploading to Apple Market or Google Play.

Let’s have a sneak peek into the current state and perspectives of this market.

• 47% of all the web search inquiries are about health care providers and specialists;
• the market reach of the medical app categories in the US is 68,9% . To compare: games — 65,9% , travel — 84,7% , communication & social —  97,9% .
• 60% of patients do online research prior to booking an in-office appointment;
• currently, 88% of all doctors’ appointments are scheduled by phone and only 2,4% online. The majority of people don’t want to risk sensitive information when filling in online forms;

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We don’t rush to sketching mockups once the project specs are ready, we prepare wireframes and prototypes based on user stories and flows instead. Then we proceed with UI and always do our best to deliver a modern user-friendly interface that will look and function flawlessly.

3. Transparent development

The Agile approach is what helps us be flexible, swift and deliver expected results on time. As for MVPs, it takes us less than 1 month to come up with the outcome. What’s more, iterative development is absolutely transparent to clients who are receiving updates on a regular basis.

4. Quality assurance

Any mobile app undergoes several QA tests during the development stage and the final check just before the launch. Our goal is to be confident that the outcome works smoothly across in any environment.

5. Post-launch support

Our team stays with you after the launch to support your product growth all throughout its life cycle. Maintenance, updates and scaling-up will be our priority while you’re busy growing your business.

There are two engagement models we typically use — dedicated teams and app developers available for hire. Both of them are good although they fit various types of projects and goals.

Dedicated teams perform well for long-run projects. It means you get a separate team that works solely on your product: business analyst, designer, project manager, developers, and QA engineer. This approach takes the burden of recruitment and HR management from your shoulders.

Hiring app developers without a dedicated team works well for companies that prefer managing projects themselves. We supply our dev specialists to extend your existing team according to the T&M agreements – you pay only for the factual time and resources spent on each dev stage.

Costs to build a doctor scheduling app

Gauging the accurate budget without high-level requirements is difficult, that’s why we always encourage our clients to go with Business Analysis first.

During this stage, the client and the business analyst define the goals, functionality, and tech requirements. Based on that, we can estimate the product development budget and make suggestions about splitting the functionality into MVP and post-MVP stages.

Below you will find an approximate estimation for a doctor scheduling app based on our experience. The numbers are strictly indicative, however, they can help you get an idea of costs associated with the development.

The true cost of an app is difficult to predict without assessing the requirements. In this article, we provide approximate estimates regarding the price to build an app and explain what's included in every stage.

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The 5 Best Symptom Tracker Apps to Support Your Medical Health

P aying attention to unusual or persistent symptoms is important for your health. Curating a list of symptoms can help you determine if you need medical help—whether that’s self-treatment, advice from a pharmacist, or a doctor’s appointment.

As medical appointments can be brief, presenting your doctor with a list of clear and accurate symptoms can help progress your diagnosis when time is short. Here are the best symptom tracker apps you can use to identify medical issues and help support your doctor appointments.

1. General Symptoms Tracker: CareClinic Tracker & Reminder

The CareClinic Tracker & Reminder app is a one-stop shop for tracking all types of symptoms, including (but not limited to):

• Medications. Whether medicinal, supplements, or vitamins, tracking your medicines can help you keep on top of your doses. It can also provide information to your health provider if any new symptoms arise alongside starting or stopping medications.
• Measurements. Blood sugar levels, heart rate, and pulse—tracking these health markers can help you give optimum information to your doctor when required.
• Fluids. Hydration is vital for health, so tracking your drinks (water, milk, juice, etc.) can help indicate if you need to increase your fluid intake.
• Mood. Add notes and adjust the mood scale to help track your mental well-being.
• Activity. Log your sports, exercises, or steps to monitor if you’re under or over-exercising.
• Sleep. Sleep plays a vital role in good health. Add your sleep hours and the quality of your sleep to help identify any issues or interruptions to getting a good night’s sleep.

You can add the frequency that you experience your symptoms (daily, specific days of the week, or a custom day range). And you can set reminders to capture your well-being status and progress to better understand your health and whether your symptoms are improving or worsening.

Overall, the CareClinic Tracker & Reminder app is a great way of keeping all your symptoms and well-being measures in one place.

Download: CareClinic Tracker & Reminder for Android | iOS (Free, subscription available)

2. Digestive Disorders: mySymptoms Food Diary

If you have concerns about your digestive health, then using a tracking app like mySymptoms Food Diary might help.

mySymptoms Food Diary can be used to record, track, and analyze a variety of gut-related symptoms. It can help your doctor identify digestive disorders such as IBS or GERD and help you determine whether you should test for digestive diseases such as Celiac Disease.

You can track the following events:

• Meals, snacks, and drinks.
• Medication and supplements.
• Stress levels (including intensity and duration).
• Exercise (including type, intensity, and duration).
• Environment (whether you were exposed to any pollutants, allergens, stings, mold, animals, etc).
• Other (any other event you experienced that isn’t listed on the mySymptoms tracker).

And the following outcomes:

• Symptoms (e.g. nausea, stomach pain, asthma, or gas).
• Bowel Movement (based on the Bristol Scale, the appearance of your stools).
• Energy (on a low to high scale).
• Sleep Quality (time you fell asleep and woke up as well as the quality of sleep).

Over time, the Analysis tab will be able to provide insights into any correlations between your tracked events and symptoms.

The premium version of mySymptoms gives you access to detailed charts that provide insights into trends of your digestive symptoms. From this, you can generate a PDF report to send or give to your doctor to help with digestive or allergy diagnoses.

Download: mySymptoms Food Diary for Android (Free, subscription available) | iOS ($5.99)

3. Period & Fertility Tracking: Clue

Period trackers are a useful tool for recording and monitoring monthly symptoms. By tracking your physical, mental, and emotional fluctuations across each cycle, you can have a better understanding of your hormonal well-being (and an insight into your fertility). If you have any anomalies or recurrent unusual symptoms, you can show your records to your doctor.

Clue is a thorough period tracking app that offers multiple functions:

• Clue Period Tracking. Track your period and add symptoms such as feelings, pain, digestion, temperature, and more throughout the month.
• Clue Conceive. Available as a subscription on iOS, Clue Conceive is a tool you can use to help increase your chances of getting pregnant. Any fertility concerns can be taken forward to your doctor.
• Clue Pregnancy. Track symptoms from your first week of pregnancy through to six weeks postpartum.

The different tracking modes offered by Clue are ideal for personalizing your symptom tracking depending on what stage you are in. If you have any concerns related to women’s or hormonal health, then using a period tracker like Clue can help give your doctor a full picture of what’s going on.

If you have any privacy or data concerns with using period trackers, take a look at our article discussing whether period tracker apps are safe to use .

Download: Clue for Android | iOS (Free, subscription available)

4. Mood Disorders: Bearable

You can use Bearable—a mood-tracking and journaling app—to help identify patterns and symptoms that could indicate a mood disorder. To help you and your doctor better understand your moods and feelings, Bearable offers a variety of tracking factors, including the following:

• Mood. Rate your mood on a scale of 1 to 10 and add keywords (e.g. happy, frustrated, overwhelmed, exhausted, scared, etc.).
• Symptoms. Add details about physical, digestive, reproductive, or other symptoms.
• Factor Journal. Recording details about your routine, lifestyle, activities, environmental factors, and more can give more context to what might affect your moods.
• Sleep. Quality, hours asleep, factors including late bedtimes or devices in bed—recording your sleep habit can give a good insight into your well-being.
• Meds/Supplements. Record any over-the-counter or prescribed medicines or supplements you’re currently taking.
• Bowel Movements. Digestive health can play a hand in your mental well-being, so recording your bowel movements can give your doctor more information about your overall health.

Use the Insights tab to monitor your symptoms, identify any correlations, and view your weekly report. The Experiment tab allows you to trial “lifestyle hacks” such as a digital bedtime detox to see if you can improve your mood and symptoms before seeking medical advice.

Bearable is a great tool for tracking your mood and overall well-being, and it’s also one of the apps that can help people living with bipolar disorder .

Download: Bearable for Android | iOS (Free, in-app purchases available)

5. Skin Health and Melanomas: SkinVision

Monitoring your skin’s health can help you detect early warning signs of skin conditions and even skin cancer. SkinVision was developed for users to check their skin, detect any changes, and detect early signs of melanomas or other conditions.

The free version of SkinVision offers the following features to help you monitor your skin health:

• Identify your skin type and risk profile. Add your eye color, hair color, skin tone, how your skin reacts to the sun, and more to receive your profile.
• Skin check reminders. Opt-in to be reminded to check your skin over a period of time, via push notifications, email, or SMS.
• UV Index. Turn on the UV index of your current location to receive advice on how to protect your skin and what times you should cover up.

Paid features of the app include a photo assessment of your skin, achieved by following these steps:

• Take a photo of your skin. SkinVision uses AI to analyze your photos and give you a risk assessment of your concern areas.
• Add symptoms. Select symptoms associated with the area of skin you’ve shared (e.g. changing, bleeding, or itching).
• Choose check options. You can purchase a single skin check, three months of unlimited checks, or a year of unlimited checks.

While the free version of SkinVersion may be limited, it’s a great starting point to monitor your skin and take your concerns to your doctor.

Download: SkinVision for Android | iOS (Free, subscription available)

Using the Right Apps Can Help Support Your Medical Appointments

It’s important to seek medical help when you need it. Knowing when you should book an appointment, however, can be a tricky thing to determine. Using the suggested apps above should help you monitor your symptoms and give you the confidence to reach out for medical advice when needed.

What is a symptom tracker app?

A symptom tracker app records and monitors various health symptoms over time. You and your healthcare provider use the tracker to identify patterns, determine treatment efficacy, and make informed healthcare decisions. CareClinic is the simplest and best way to track your symptoms on Apple iPad/iPhone, Android or Web.

Symptom Tracking Made Easy

CareClinic comes with a built-in symptom tracker. A symptom is any evidence of a disease. As such, anxiety, fatigue, and low back pain are all considered symptoms as you can perceive them.

Track mental health, behavioral, or physical health symptoms you experience. With tracking available in a mobile app, you can track health conditions and your health symptoms anytime. 

Furthermore, CareClinic enables you to easily track symptoms of chronic illness such as Chronic Pain, ME/CFS, IBS/IBD, Migraines, MS, Lyme, Cancer, Depression (MDD), PMDD, or any other illness.

You may record as many symptoms as needed, set the time you felt the flare-up, and post to your symptom journal quickly.

Download the Symptom Tracker Journal Below:

Manage Medical Symptoms

Select from a list of medical symptoms and record them as part of your journal entry. Record them as frequently as you need to in the symptoms section of a check-in.

Help your care provider make informed decisions. Use your symptom log for better diagnosis and treatment. Record your daily values including sleep, energy, weight and others, or add your custom field to track what matters to you.

Feel good knowing that your health information is stored safely and can be accessed only by you. Use our web app if you prefer to input your information on a larger screen using a full keyboard. This is especially beneficial for seniors and parents.

You can view your health symptoms in Charts or Log format. The correlations report makes it easy to determine if your symptoms are a result of consuming certain foods, allergies, or other health factors that you may have recorded automatically! 

There is no need to print a template and rewrite the same symptoms over and over. Once you have added a symptom to our profile, it can be reused for an entry quickly.

Personalized Symptoms Tracker

Add a start date to your symptoms and use it for reference as part of your personal health record. Quickly know when your symptoms or flares began and how long they lasted.

Some of the most common medical symptoms tracked are headaches, fatigue, brain fog, depression, anxiety, lack of motivation, migraine, inflammation, memory problems and insomnia.

Use advanced functionality to connect symptoms with specific care plans or chronic conditions to remain better organized. Use the app as your  digital health diary. This will help you manage multiple treatments for multiple sicknesses without needing to delete medications or symptoms from a past treatment.

Install our free medical symptom tracker app for Android or iOS by clicking the buttons buttons below:

Health Symptoms Report & Correlations

Have access to an array of tools such as a Journal, Calendar and Reports with Charts that can help you discover triggers or help you stay on track to minimize symptoms based on your care plan. Share the reports automatically with members in your CareTeam or print them as needed.

Do your best to potentially minimize daily symptoms based on what you learn from monitoring your health. We use advanced machine learning algorithms to alert you of triggers you may not be aware of.

View Correlation Reports, Charts and symptom logs of how your treatment is progressing with ease on mobile or web.

Your Personal Symptom Diary App

Uncover the root cause of your symptoms and manage flare-ups more effectively by strategically identifying patterns and correlations. By understanding what triggers your symptoms, you can adopt targeted approaches to mitigate them.

For instance, fatigue can be a symptom of many different conditions, but it can also be a symptom of something as simple as not getting enough sleep. Identifying correlations between your symptoms can help you better understand your condition and figure out what triggers flares.

Additionally, tracking your symptoms can help you identify patterns in your condition. For example, you may notice that your symptoms tend to worsen at a certain time of day or after you eat certain foods. Identifying these patterns can help you better manage your condition and avoid flares.

What Can Be Tracked?

CareClinic’s symptoms tracker functionality can be used to track any symptom that is predefined or personal to you. Replacing tools such as calendars, Notion, or an offline worksheet.

CareClinic’s integrations make it easy to use Apple Watch, Siri, and other system integrations to make recording entries easy. Try it yourself.  Track and manage symptoms of any chronic illness:

Cardiovascular Conditions Joint and Muscle Conditions Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis Respiratory Conditions: COPD Digestive Disorders Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis (IBD), IBS Symptoms Mental Health Conditions Depression, PMDD, PMS, ADHD Autoimmune Diseases Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis Chronic Pain Conditions Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders: Diabetes Nutritional and Food Sensitivities Infectious Diseases: Lyme Disease

FAQ’s

Who should track their symptoms.

Adults managing chronic conditions like diabetes or cardiovascular diseases should prioritize symptom tracking to optimize treatment and lifestyle choices. Women experiencing menstrual-related issues such as PMDD or PMS can greatly benefit from consistent monitoring to improve hormonal balance and treatment efficacy. Parents can also use it to manage symptoms of their baby or toddler’s symptoms as they go through various milestones.

Seniors, particularly those dealing with age-associated conditions like arthritis or COPD, should also employ symptom tracking for better healthcare outcomes. Adolescents diagnosed with ADHD or facing mental health symptoms like anxiety or depression will find symptom tracking instrumental in treatment planning. Regardless of age or gender, individuals undergoing treatment for various ailments should consider symptom tracking a key component of comprehensive healthcare management. Although CareClinic is designed for humans, we’ve seen many users use it for their pets such as dogs as well!

How do you track your symptoms?

Start by logging the exact date and time when you experienced the symptom. Rate its severity on a scale from 1 to 10 to provide context on its impact.

Additionally, document the duration the symptom lasts, as this is crucial for treatment planning. Note down any potential triggers or activities that may have worsened the symptoms; for example, eating a certain type of food. Always include any treatments or medications you’ve used to manage the symptoms.

Lastly, consider adding additional factors like your overall stress level or energy level at the time. This rounded view provides a robust foundation for diagnosis and treatment decisions.

How does CareClinic make journaling easier?

When using the CareClinic App for symptom tracking, the process becomes more streamlined. After launching the app, navigate to the Symptom Tracker section and tap on ‘Add New Entry’.

The app’s interface typically has fields aligned with the general tracking parameters like date, time, severity, and duration. Populate these fields accordingly—for instance, entering a ‘7’ in the ‘Severity’ field for a severe headache.

The app also allows for tagging, enabling you to easily categorize triggers or medications you’re using, such as tagging “Cheese” for triggers and “Tylenol” for medication. This digital approach not only simplifies the tracking process but also makes data review more manageable, especially when consulting healthcare providers.

What are the advantages of tracking your symptoms?

There are many advantages to tracking your symptoms, including:

• Helps you and your doctor identify patterns in your symptoms.
• Helps you and your doctor determine the best course of treatment.
• Gives you a way to monitor your progress over time.
• Can help you feel more in control of your condition.
• Can help reduce anxiety and stress about your condition.
• May improve your compliance with treatment.

What are the best ways to track my symptoms?

There is no one “best” way to track your symptoms. Some people prefer to keep a written diary, while others prefer to use digital tracking tools or apps. Ultimately, the best way to track your symptoms is the way that works best for you.

What should I track?

Some people prefer to track their symptoms on a daily basis, while others only track them when they experience a flare-up or change in their condition. The important thing is to track whatever information you feel is most important for you and your doctor. Some things you may want to track include:

1. The date and time of your symptoms.

2. The severity of your symptoms (on a scale from 1-10).

3. The duration of your symptoms.

4. Any triggers or activities that seem to worsen your symptoms.

5. Any treatments or medications you are taking for your symptoms.

6. Your overall level of stress and anxiety.

7. Your energy levels and ability to function during a flare-up.

8. Anything else you feel is important to track.

If you are unsure what to track, talk to your doctor. They can help you identify the most important information to track based on your individual condition.

What if I don’t have time to track my symptoms?

If you feel like you don’t have time to track your symptoms, talk to your doctor. They may be able to suggest some ways to make tracking easier or less time-consuming. Additionally, there are many digital tracking tools and apps available that can make tracking your symptoms quick and easy.

How often should I track my symptoms?

Some people prefer to track their symptoms daily, while others only track them when they experience a flare-up or change in their condition. The important thing is to track your symptoms as often as you feel is necessary for you and your doctor.

If you are unsure how often to track your symptoms, talk to your doctor. They can help you determine the best frequency for tracking based on your condition. Our app is designed to work offline. Once you’re signed up, you can access your data even without an internet connection. Changes are synced and backed up the next time you’re online.

What if I don’t have any symptoms?

If you are not currently experiencing any symptoms, you may not need to track them. However, it is still important to talk to your doctor about your condition and whether or not tracking may be beneficial for you. Some people with chronic conditions find it helpful to track their symptoms even when they are feeling well, to identify patterns or triggers for their flares. The most common conditions that require active symptom tracking are: Asthma, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Crohn’s Disease, Depression, Fibromyalgia, Headaches and Migraines, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis

Which symptoms can I track with the CareClinic App?

You can track all symptoms in the CareClinic App such as fatigue, pain, stiffness, headaches, difficulty sleeping, difficulty concentrating, depression, anxiety, gastrointestinal problems, and flare-ups. For a complete list of all symptoms that can be tracked in the app, please see our symptom tracker.

What is the difference between active and passive symptom tracking?

Active symptom tracking is when you proactively track your symptoms on a regular basis, even when you are feeling well. This can help you identify patterns in your symptoms and flares. Passive symptom tracking is when you only track your symptoms when you are experiencing them. This can be helpful for monitoring your symptoms and flares, but may not be as helpful for identifying patterns.

How is a Symptom Checker App different?

A symptom tracker is designed to record and monitor your health symptoms over a period of time, allowing for the identification of patterns, triggers, and treatment effectiveness. In contrast, a symptom checker is an online tool or app that provides immediate, preliminary medical advice based on the symptoms you input, often suggesting potential conditions you might have.

While a symptom tracker is for longitudinal observation and is often used in consultation with healthcare providers, a symptom checker serves a more immediate, diagnostic function and is not a substitute for professional medical advice.

Does the symptom tracker offer medical advice for my medical problem?

The symptom tracker is not intended to offer medical advice. If you are experiencing symptoms, please talk to your doctor. The tracker is only meant to help you track and monitor your symptoms.

How do you prioritize privacy and security?

We take your privacy and security seriously. All health data is encrypted during transmission and storage. We adhere to industry best practices to ensure your information is secure. For more details, check our Privacy Policy.

The Only Health Symptom Tracker Logging App You'll Need

It is important to track symptoms using a symptom log so you can learn when they are getting worse or if you are developing new symptoms.

CareClinic enables you to rapidly log your symptoms from a 1 to 10 scale. Record your symptoms as 1 for mild, 5 for medium, and 10 for severe. Over time you will be able to confirm if your symptoms are getting better or worse as you will have maintained a symptoms log.

Features of Symptoms Diary & Tracker App

+ Track an unlimited amount of symptoms in the free version of CareClinic mobile app. This includes making posts to your symptoms diary where your data does not need to be on a scale of 1 to 10.

+ Your data belongs to you, and is automatically synced securely between the web and mobile app.

+ You can easily print, share or save your symptom report as a PDF from the web app.

Available on every platform: iOS/ iPhone and iPad, Android Phone or Android Tablet, and on the web.

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We will provide additional customizable PDF templates that can be printed for free soon. For those who want to track their symptoms offline or prefer a bullet journal, these will also be provided in Excel spreadsheet format.

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In 2024, as many as 81.6% of the U.S. population owns a smartphone, and the bulk of U.S. adults’ smartphone usage is spent on mobile apps – including some that can help with your caregiving duties. The demands of caring for a loved one can be exhausting and overwhelming, so family caregivers need all the help they can get. Fortunately, help is available at your fingertips with caregiving apps.

Caregiver apps can help caregivers stay organized, make their daily tasks more manageable, and relieve some of the burdens of family caregiving. The best caregiver apps can help caregivers with various tasks such as medication reminders, activity logging, managing appointments, coordinating a team of caregivers, and more. However, there are dozens of caregiver apps for iPhone and Android devices, so finding the best ones can take time and effort.

We have compiled a list of the best caregiver mobile apps to help you manage the care of your loved one. You can find disease-specific apps for Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. It is recommended to try a few apps, as one app may not offer everything you need. Most of these apps are either free or reasonably priced and will make your caregiving life much easier.

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Best App for Easy Communication with Family and Friends

CaringBridge is just that — a bridge that allows you and your loved ones to stay in touch. It’s particularly useful for families facing health issues such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes. The app allows multiple caregivers and family members to share important updates, provide encouragement, and coordinate care. Additionally, a guest book feature can be used to share medical updates, photos, stories, and tributes.

This is a wonderful addition to caregiver apps and unique in that it creates a place for more than managing a loved one’s care — you can uplift, stay in the loop and help each other through a difficult time.

What’s Great About CaringBridge:

CaringBridge is an application that specializes in keeping loved ones connected. The app’s designers have created a product that not only shares information but also acts as a safe space for good thoughts, encouragement, photos, medical and caregiving updates.

As the information shared through the app is sensitive, users may worry about its security. However, CaringBridge has taken measures to ensure the safety of users’ information, making it a stress-free platform to communicate about their loved one’s needs. These features make CaringBridge a comprehensive and thoughtful tool for its users.

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• Lotsa Helping Hands

Best App for Care Coordination

Lotsa Helping Hands is a caregiving app that helps you create a community of care around your loved one. You can invite family, friends, volunteers, and care aides to join and then manage everything from sitters and errands to appointments and family gatherings using an interactive calendar.

The app has a section called “Helping Hands” that acts as a message board and a well-wishes wall. Caregivers, family, and friends can leave messages of encouragement for the person receiving care or others in the circle of care. The app allows you to select a coordinator and a community member page where you can update contact information and birthdates and list the best times to call. These features make Lotsa Helping Hands an excellent resource for building a vibrant care community.

What’s Great About Lotsa Helping Hands:

Lotsa Helping Hands is a web platform that provides extensive support to caregivers and their loved ones. The website offers practical guidance, personal accounts from other caregivers, a newsletter, and other features that complement the application. Using the Care Calendar, family members and friends can schedule and sign up for tasks such as meal delivery and transport services. Additionally, caregivers can leverage the Lotsa Helping Hands app to create announcements, allowing loved ones to receive messages of encouragement and support from family and friends.

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Best App for Information Storage

The Caring Village app is designed specifically for family caregivers to help them easily coordinate and keep track of their loved one’s care. It’s also a safe app for storing important documents and other sensitive information about the care recipient.

Caring Village CEO and Co-founder Mike Behrman says he was inspired to launch the app after he and his wife became caregivers for his mother-in-law, who has dementia. “We realized that the most important thing we needed to do was communicate effectively with other family members, her care professionals and neighbors,” he said in a news release.

The app is designed to assist family caregivers in managing the care of their loved ones through a secure messaging system. It allows users to create “villages” among friends and relatives to coordinate the specifics of their loved one’s care. Caring Village users can develop customized care plans and personalized to-do lists. The app provides centralized calendar management, document storage, a medication list, and a wellness journal to share with the rest of the family’s “village.”

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Reviewers say the app is easy to use and gives them peace of mind about staying on top of their loved one’s care plan. Caring Village helps caregivers and family members stay informed by allowing users to electronically store important documents that are only accessible to the group’s inner circle. As AARP’s Anne Marie Kilgallon was quoted as saying in a Tech Crunch article earlier this year, “[Caring Village is] all about the connection between family, caregivers and care recipients.”

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Best App for Emergencies

Caring for an elderly individual can be challenging as accidents and injuries can happen anytime despite being cautious. Reduced mobility and balance can also contribute to the likelihood of such occurrences. When such accidents happen, acting fast and not relying on intuition alone is crucial. The First Aid: The American Red Cross app is indispensable in such situations as it can help you address the issue quickly and effectively.

This app offers its users professional advice, helpful videos and animations for first-aid learning, step-by-step instructions during emergencies, and an integrated 9-1-1 call button. Plus, it comes preloaded with a wealth of information about first aid and CPR, making it a must-have app for caregivers.

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First Aid: American Red Cross is content-rich, and all that critical information is available offline. If you are in the woods without a signal or have your phone on airplane mode during your flight, the information and tools you need will still be accessible. This can be life-saving in an emergency where there’s no one nearby to help. 

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eCare21 provides round-the-clock patient monitoring through wireless and wearable devices such as a smartwatch or FitBit. You can track the wearer’s glucose, heart rate, activity, medication, weight, calorie intake, and sleep. Caregivers, patients, family members, and doctors can access this helpful information anytime via the app.

eCare is ideal for caregivers as they manage their loved ones’ schedules and meet their health needs. However, you may need several apps or websites to tackle more complex caregiving challenges such as pain management, medication interaction, financial matters, and end-of-life issues. While the app is free, you can upgrade your subscription to access benefits like unlimited care plans and the ability to share care plans with a caregiver.

What’s Great About eCare21:

eCare21’s latest technology allows you to monitor your loved one’s care needs without being intrusive. It’s ideal for a working or long-distance caregiver and by providing vital health data, which means better and quicker response. Forbes offered a favorable review of eCare21 stating, “The patients’ doctors, loved ones and caregivers can keep an eye on them and provide proactive care, even from hundreds of miles away.”

Best App for Medication Management

Any caregiver knows the frustrations and concerns involved in medication management. For administering medications, caregivers must remember things like dosage timing and record-keeping, whether or not to take it with food, potential side effects, and tracking benefits or drawbacks. Through offering reminders and practical information, Medisafe Meds & Pill Reminder helps alleviate some of these concerns by connecting caregivers, seniors, and the medical community to provide cohesive care.

While some users noted frustrations with loading several medications at various time intervals, it should also be noted that MediSafe receives high marks for customer support, and the app’s support team addresses each online review concern.

What’s Great About Medisafe:

Medisafe is designed for users of any age and caregivers responsible for medication monitoring. Medisafe is unique in that it’s a medication reminder and educates people about their condition and the medicines they’re taking at the same time. The app can help caregivers with reminders, progression tracking, and even finding coupons and other incentives. It also benefits physicians who want to connect with their patients through the Medisafe app. Medisafe has been featured on CNBC and in Reader’s Digest.

Best App for Self-Care and Caregiver Support

Amidst the demands of caring for loved ones, caregivers are at a greater risk of stress and burnout, as well as negative impacts on their physical and mental health. The Ianacare (iana means “I am not alone”) app was designed to equip and empower caregivers with the needed resources and support. The app provides the ability to organize caregiver teams and request or receive help from family and friends. For instance, you can ask for assistance transporting your loved one to an appointment, and someone from your social circle can accept your request via the Ianacare app.

The Ianacare smartphone app is designed to assist individuals on their caregiver journey. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining physical and mental well-being by providing expert content and connection to various caregiving support groups and communities. These resources help individuals become better care providers over time.

What’s Great About Ianacare:

Ianacare is one of the few platforms that focuses on helping caregivers cope while caring for a loved one. For example, caregivers can use the app to find curated programs and services available in their local area. Plus, the app gives you ways to contact organizations directly. In addition, Ianacare offers Caregiver Navigators, where you can receive 1-1 support from trained caregiver coaches.

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Keeping Track of Doctor Visits – The Easy Way!

by Brianna | Parenting

How to Keep Track of Doctor Visits and Medications – The Easy Way!

I was fortunate to stay home with my son for the first year of his life. I was also fortunate that I did not have to deal with him getting sick basically that entire year. He has now been in daycare almost a year, and he has definitely made up for lost time. It has been one doctor visit after another—last month alone he managed to catch both croup and coxsackie. It is difficult enough to juggle working full-time with sleepless nights with a sick kid, but staying on top of all of the doctor visits and medications has been almost impossible.

In an attempt to manage these records, I am going to create an excel document to track all of this in one convenient place.

Create a List of What to Track

The first thing I like to do when putting together a spreadsheet, is to brainstorm a list of everything I might want to include. Here is the list I came up with regarding doctor visits: • The date of the visit • Whether is was a wellness visit or not • If it was a wellness visit, what vaccinations were administered • Where were the vaccinations administered (shot A in right leg, B in left leg, etc.) • Is he sick? • What are his symptoms? • What was the diagnosis? • What medications did the doctor prescribe? • What are the instruction for the medication? • Is a follow-up visit required? • How long is he going to be contagious for? • Do I need a doctor’s note to bring him back to daycare/school?

Finalize the Items to Track and Create a Spreadsheet Draft

Based on the fact that my son is only 22 months, and that his daycare doesn’t require a note to allow him back in after being sick, I am not going to add the last two points to my document right now. I can always add them in later if necessary. Instead, I am just going to add a comments column that will provide the space to mention anything else relating to this particular visit. If at some point along the road I begin to notice a trend in my comments, I will then consider adding a columns for that item.

I am likewise going to leave the vaccination site information out for now. The reason I want to keep track of this information is so that if there is a reaction, I know what shot he is reacting to and whether it is serious or not. (I had an incident with a reaction to his 18 month shots. If I remember correctly, it was his DTaP vaccination, and the fourth and fifth shots can cause a larger welt at the site than normal. Needless to say, I had to do a lot of extra searching to determine it was nothing serious. Perhaps if I had started this spreadsheet sooner, I would be able to elaborate more..). I think I would rather create a printable for this. I will come back to this point, later..

So, here is the first rough draft of my spreadsheet:

It’s not too pretty, but you have to start somewhere, right!

I typically leave a column to the left of the table empty as well as one above for modification purposes.

I hope to be able to go back at some point and fill in his entire history, but for now, I am just going to start tracking this information going forward.

Keep in mind that any spreadsheet I create is generally modified over time as I figure out what is working, and what is just tedious and irrelevant to keep entering.

Make it Look Appealing

I hate  filling in a boring spreadsheet. If you want to create a habit out of filling in this information, I highly suggest taking a few minutes to make it something you don’t mind looking at. So, let’s add a pop of color and a more interesting font:

Edit the Spreadsheet for Flow and Readability

At this point, you are going to want to take a look at what you have and see if everything makes sense. Looking at the table I created, I think that it is a little misleading having the symptoms directly next to the vaccination column. To me, it looks like that column is there to indicate any symptoms that arose from the vaccinations. Because of this confusion, I am going to separate these sections.

There. I inserted thin columns to group the information into similar sections. Now, to put it to use!

Here is a Link to the Spreadsheet!

For those of you who would like to put this spreadsheet to use, here is a link:

Doctor Visits Spreadsheet

I added extra rows to get you started. I also added an additional worksheet so you can track all your kids, pets, spouses, too. Please reach out if you have any questions on how to use the document, or go  here  for my How to Excel Series.

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Here are some printables if you would rather use those to track doctor visits.

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Are there any columns you would add that I left out? Or anything I put in there that you think is unnecessary? Feedback is always welcome and will help us all have the best tools to use to manage all of the doctor visits and prescriptions that come along with having young children!

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Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools

Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and shared the doctored pictures.

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Natasha Singer has covered student privacy for The Times since 2013. She reported this story from Westfield, N.J.

• April 8, 2024

Westfield Public Schools held a regular board meeting in late March at the local high school, a red brick complex in Westfield, N.J., with a scoreboard outside proudly welcoming visitors to the “Home of the Blue Devils” sports teams.

But it was not business as usual for Dorota Mani.

In October, some 10th-grade girls at Westfield High School — including Ms. Mani’s 14-year-old daughter, Francesca — alerted administrators that boys in their class had used artificial intelligence software to fabricate sexually explicit images of them and were circulating the faked pictures. Five months later, the Manis and other families say, the district has done little to publicly address the doctored images or update school policies to hinder exploitative A.I. use.

“It seems as though the Westfield High School administration and the district are engaging in a master class of making this incident vanish into thin air,” Ms. Mani, the founder of a local preschool, admonished board members during the meeting.

In a statement, the school district said it had opened an “immediate investigation” upon learning about the incident, had immediately notified and consulted with the police, and had provided group counseling to the sophomore class.

“All school districts are grappling with the challenges and impact of artificial intelligence and other technology available to students at any time and anywhere,” Raymond González, the superintendent of Westfield Public Schools, said in the statement.

Blindsided last year by the sudden popularity of A.I.-powered chatbots like ChatGPT, schools across the United States scurried to contain the text-generating bots in an effort to forestall student cheating. Now a more alarming A.I. image-generating phenomenon is shaking schools.

Boys in several states have used widely available “nudification” apps to pervert real, identifiable photos of their clothed female classmates, shown attending events like school proms, into graphic, convincing-looking images of the girls with exposed A.I.-generated breasts and genitalia. In some cases, boys shared the faked images in the school lunchroom, on the school bus or through group chats on platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, according to school and police reports.

Such digitally altered images — known as “deepfakes” or “deepnudes” — can have devastating consequences. Child sexual exploitation experts say the use of nonconsensual, A.I.-generated images to harass, humiliate and bully young women can harm their mental health, reputations and physical safety as well as pose risks to their college and career prospects. Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned that it is illegal to distribute computer-generated child sexual abuse material, including realistic-looking A.I.-generated images of identifiable minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

Yet the student use of exploitative A.I. apps in schools is so new that some districts seem less prepared to address it than others. That can make safeguards precarious for students.

“This phenomenon has come on very suddenly and may be catching a lot of school districts unprepared and unsure what to do,” said Riana Pfefferkorn , a research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory, who writes about legal issues related to computer-generated child sexual abuse imagery .

At Issaquah High School near Seattle last fall, a police detective investigating complaints from parents about explicit A.I.-generated images of their 14- and 15-year-old daughters asked an assistant principal why the school had not reported the incident to the police, according to a report from the Issaquah Police Department. The school official then asked “what was she supposed to report,” the police document said, prompting the detective to inform her that schools are required by law to report sexual abuse, including possible child sexual abuse material. The school subsequently reported the incident to Child Protective Services, the police report said. (The New York Times obtained the police report through a public-records request.)

In a statement, the Issaquah School District said it had talked with students, families and the police as part of its investigation into the deepfakes. The district also “ shared our empathy ,” the statement said, and provided support to students who were affected.

The statement added that the district had reported the “fake, artificial-intelligence-generated images to Child Protective Services out of an abundance of caution,” noting that “per our legal team, we are not required to report fake images to the police.”

At Beverly Vista Middle School in Beverly Hills, Calif., administrators contacted the police in February after learning that five boys had created and shared A.I.-generated explicit images of female classmates. Two weeks later, the school board approved the expulsion of five students, according to district documents . (The district said California’s education code prohibited it from confirming whether the expelled students were the students who had manufactured the images.)

Michael Bregy, superintendent of the Beverly Hills Unified School District, said he and other school leaders wanted to set a national precedent that schools must not permit pupils to create and circulate sexually explicit images of their peers.

“That’s extreme bullying when it comes to schools,” Dr. Bregy said, noting that the explicit images were “disturbing and violative” to girls and their families. “It’s something we will absolutely not tolerate here.”

Schools in the small, affluent communities of Beverly Hills and Westfield were among the first to publicly acknowledge deepfake incidents. The details of the cases — described in district communications with parents, school board meetings, legislative hearings and court filings — illustrate the variability of school responses.

The Westfield incident began last summer when a male high school student asked to friend a 15-year-old female classmate on Instagram who had a private account, according to a lawsuit against the boy and his parents brought by the young woman and her family. (The Manis said they are not involved with the lawsuit.)

After she accepted the request, the male student copied photos of her and several other female schoolmates from their social media accounts, court documents say. Then he used an A.I. app to fabricate sexually explicit, “fully identifiable” images of the girls and shared them with schoolmates via a Snapchat group, court documents say.

Westfield High began to investigate in late October. While administrators quietly took some boys aside to question them, Francesca Mani said, they called her and other 10th-grade girls who had been subjected to the deepfakes to the school office by announcing their names over the school intercom.

That week, Mary Asfendis, the principal of Westfield High, sent an email to parents alerting them to “a situation that resulted in widespread misinformation.” The email went on to describe the deepfakes as a “very serious incident.” It also said that, despite student concern about possible image-sharing, the school believed that “any created images have been deleted and are not being circulated.”

Dorota Mani said Westfield administrators had told her that the district suspended the male student accused of fabricating the images for one or two days.

Soon after, she and her daughter began publicly speaking out about the incident, urging school districts, state lawmakers and Congress to enact laws and policies specifically prohibiting explicit deepfakes.

“We have to start updating our school policy,” Francesca Mani, now 15, said in a recent interview. “Because if the school had A.I. policies, then students like me would have been protected.”

Parents including Dorota Mani also lodged harassment complaints with Westfield High last fall over the explicit images. During the March meeting, however, Ms. Mani told school board members that the high school had yet to provide parents with an official report on the incident.

Westfield Public Schools said it could not comment on any disciplinary actions for reasons of student confidentiality. In a statement, Dr. González, the superintendent, said the district was strengthening its efforts “by educating our students and establishing clear guidelines to ensure that these new technologies are used responsibly.”

Beverly Hills schools have taken a stauncher public stance.

When administrators learned in February that eighth-grade boys at Beverly Vista Middle School had created explicit images of 12- and 13-year-old female classmates, they quickly sent a message — subject line: “Appalling Misuse of Artificial Intelligence” — to all district parents, staff, and middle and high school students. The message urged community members to share information with the school to help ensure that students’ “disturbing and inappropriate” use of A.I. “stops immediately.”

It also warned that the district was prepared to institute severe punishment. “Any student found to be creating, disseminating, or in possession of AI-generated images of this nature will face disciplinary actions,” including a recommendation for expulsion, the message said.

Dr. Bregy, the superintendent, said schools and lawmakers needed to act quickly because the abuse of A.I. was making students feel unsafe in schools.

“You hear a lot about physical safety in schools,” he said. “But what you’re not hearing about is this invasion of students’ personal, emotional safety.”

Natasha Singer writes about technology, business and society. She is currently reporting on the far-reaching ways that tech companies and their tools are reshaping public schools, higher education and job opportunities. More about Natasha Singer

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