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

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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 ins…

What's an EMR? Where is it stored?

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

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post #34

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 ins…

What's an EMR? Where is it stored?

EMR = Electronic Medical Records a.k.a your hospitals computer system.

Mere is a PWA stores all of your records in localStorage in your browser, data is not stored on any server.

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

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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

You can make your own with Charty, which can pull data from HealthKit

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

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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…

I’ve had so many doctors over the years and have lived in many different states. Does Picnic Health find my records even if I can’t recall my doctor’s names or do I have to tell them every office they need to contact? I’m not sure if doctors report patient records to some central authority, which would obviously make this work much easier.

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

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post #30

Fasten Health [1] is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator, designed to integrate with 100,000's of insurances/hospitals/clinics. It's designed to automatically pull your medical records from your EMR -- but users can also enter their conditions, medications and procedures manually. We have plans to allow users to manually enter their lab results [2], however that feature h…

Awesome project. Was poking around to see how the sources are generated, but it seems like the repo doesn't exist (or was made private)? https://github.com/fastenhealth/fasten-sources-gen

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

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post #35
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Good to know, thank you!

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

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I had a similar requirement several years ago and I settled on the service provided by my test lab. They are a large chain in India and their reports plot the trend of all the test report indicators along with baseline reference values and interpretations. Very useful for me and my doctor.

Yes, it isn't a complete interoperable EMR solution, but I kinda manage it myself by downloading the PDF reports and maintaining in my local electronic filing system. There is always some esoteric test that the doctor could order which has to be done at a specialist lab. So, my low-tech solution settles on PDFs of the reports. It works for 99% of the cases.

At least the trend in India is to lock all of this data into proprietary data silos.

There is an initiative in India currently underway to provide a digital health ID and an ecosystem for healthcare participants to share data Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). It is yet to take off in a big way (and hopefully it does in the next 4-5 years) and achieves the same kind of success as the payments infrastructure by NPCI that brought the UPI network.

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

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SelfDecode [0] does that. They're a lot more though - they're mainly focus on DNA analysis. Also it's a subscription so be aware if you don't like that.

They do a lot of analysis. You can send them a PDF and it will (try to) OCR it and auto-fill which in my experience is 80-90% good so you still need to check and fill out a couple blanks but it mostly works.

[0] https://selfdecode.com/

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

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post #30

Fasten Health [1] is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator, designed to integrate with 100,000's of insurances/hospitals/clinics. It's designed to automatically pull your medical records from your EMR -- but users can also enter their conditions, medications and procedures manually. We have plans to allow users to manually enter their lab results [2], however that feature h…

This is probably specific to the US? It would be nice for the Readme to clarify that aspect.
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