Ask HN: How do you maintain your medical record ?, Hacker News

As read from Europe, it’s really scary to realize that this question makes sense in a first world country.

Every medical interaction is recorded on a nationwide network – at least here in Italy. Every time I go to my doctor and they prescribe me something / they give me a shot / vaccine, it gets recorded and every other doctor can access the same data when I present my “health smart card”

Don’t know about you. But this website only works for very specific hospitals / doctors Didn’t sound like a very good idea to me.

As I understand it they can request paper / fax / cd records from any doctors given your authorization. Just takes longer than an API call to a portal.

I use an encrypted disk image with properly categorized and dated documents (digital or scanned) for each type of records.

Yeah, I don’t understand the need for software / apps / SaaS’s that can be functionally replaced by files on the filesystem (in this case) or a text file (for note-taking tools). Simple files should always be the first attempt at organizing digital media. If it’s insufficient for some reason, the OP should describe what they’ve tried and why it was insufficient.

I do almost that but have a format for the filename : yyyy-mm-dd- {prescription, lab_result, …} – xxx.pdf so could be lab_result-CBC or prescription-rosuvastatin etc.

Same but would also never use anything cloud based to do this. The risk vs convenience does not add up for this use case.

My daughter’s main health c are provider has something called ” My Health “which is okay – I presume the doctor’s have a better system. Something that maintains it on a timeline would be wonderful (that’s how I remember it anyway). I guess a better question is – is that something that anyone would pay for? Or maintain? I currently just scan everything into onenote, which works, but is suboptimal.

Just going by the type of content (appointment dates, scanned documents, maybe contact data for doctors and hospitals) I would probably look into general calendar and note-taking apps.
Maybe there is some better, specialized software for this, but I would worry that it would be so niche or technical that no relative would know how to open the files when needed. Using some more common format would have an advantage here.

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Interesting question … this is one I have thought on and off, and I have a hodge-podge of paper reports and scans, with evernote-to maintain the digital notes, and google drive for the scans.

– (One could customize an open source CRM for this?