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Re: Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?

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Post by bigiain »

cjensen wrote: post #25
Nerada wrote: post #16

After noticing Apple Health doesn't let you track this data at all (very strange decision on their part) I contemplated building an app... But Excel is easier and serves the same function. Conditional highlighting, charts, trends, it's all there.

Apple Health tracks the data. It just doesn't provide graphs except for the most common variables. I'm not really sure why no one makes a graphing app that works off HealthKit data

Because that's totally a thing Apple will release (or bundle into an existing app) as soon as it gains any popularity...

There's been persistent rumours for a few years now that Apple are working on blood glucose sensing for Apple Watch. If those rumours are right (and a big part of me really hopes they are) then that'd likely come with built in apps that destroy every blood glucose related 3rd party app.

Edit: I just noticed the original post wasn't specifically blood _glucose_ related. My own "blood test" requirements made me jump to an erroneous conclusion...

Re: Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?

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Post by nikhilyadala »

I made Free-to-use android (https://www.bit.ly/healome-one) and ios (https://www.bit.ly/healome-ios ) apps that can read (through OCR) the blood test results and plot the graphs. You can also enter the data manually if you can't access your pdfs. The app also connects with werables and plots correlations of the markers with the werable metrics. These apps are still under construction and have several bugs, but still usable. (More details at https://www.new.healome.one )

Re: Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?

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Post by Cfu288 »

Fasten Health (mentioned in a previous comment) is probably your best bet. It automatically syncs with your EMR and pulls your lab results automatically. You can manually upload your own data in a bunch of cases.

If you’re looking for another open-source and free alternative, I’m building Mere Medical which is not quite as developed as Fasten but takes a local-first approach and still connects to 2000+ healthcare institutions.

www.meremedical.co www.github.com/cfu288/mere-medical www.demo.meremedical.co

Re: Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?

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Post by cjensen »

Nerada wrote: post #29
cjensen wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple Health tracks the data. It just doesn't provide graphs except for the most common variables. I'm not really sure why no one makes a graphing app that works off HealthKit data

Blood test results? I couldn't find anywhere to input the data manually. I track everything else there, like blood pressure, but serum iron, ferritin? Transferrin? Albumin? Etc. Nothing. Am I blind?

Sorry, let me clarify my fuzziness a bit...

You are right that you cannot enter the data yourself, as far as I know. But if your lab or physician uses a system that can let you download the records, they will be stored. So I have access to all my blood labs, but there is no easy way to graph them.

As far as I know, there is no App Store rule against making an app that lets you log the variables manually, nor is there a rule against making an app that graphs stuff. Keep in mind that there are a lot of Apple rules around HealthKit data to protect privacy, and writing such an app could be difficult.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?

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Post by qiqitori »

Here's my professional opinion. Why aside from Excel/Google Sheets? What's special about blood test results? If you don't quite know how to make spreadsheets do what you want, it's probably best to just learn that. If you go for something else, the app you chose might go away in a couple years, for many reasons. Many developers don't like working on the same thing their entire life. Or some API gets deprecated; guess how often developers like to implement the same thing over and over?

Re: Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?

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Post by Cfu288 »

qiqitori wrote: post #36

Here's my professional opinion. Why aside from Excel/Google Sheets? What's special about blood test results? If you don't quite know how to make spreadsheets do what you want, it's probably best to just learn that. If you go for something else, the app you chose might go away in a couple years, for many reasons. Many developers don't like working on the same thing their entire life. Or some API gets deprecated; guess…

I mean, if you use open source apps that build on top of healthcare interoperability data formats like HL7 FHIR, you can get automated data pulls from EHRs while being able to just switch apps later.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?

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Post by KMnO4 »

cjensen wrote: post #25
Nerada wrote: post #16

After noticing Apple Health doesn't let you track this data at all (very strange decision on their part) I contemplated building an app... But Excel is easier and serves the same function. Conditional highlighting, charts, trends, it's all there.

Apple Health tracks the data. It just doesn't provide graphs except for the most common variables. I'm not really sure why no one makes a graphing app that works off HealthKit data

A while ago I was looking for this and found “Heart Reports”. Despite the name, it can make graphs from several sources that it pulls from HealthKit.

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/heart-reports/id1448243870

No affiliation with the app, just a user.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?

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Post by Cfu288 »

relyks wrote: post #23

If you're looking for a well-integrated web app product that isn't something you can run locally on your computer, Picnic Health [1] is really good at this. They import all your medical records from the providers who use electronic health record systems with APIs and collect your medical records from the providers that don't use those systems or aren't as technologically savvy. They digitize everything and put it in…

While a good looking service, it seems pretty expensive unless you’re willing to donate your data to research?
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