Health history app for your kids - idea feedback
Hey IH Parents,
How do you keep track of your kids health history?
i.e, doctor visits, vaccines, AE visits, reports, scans (x-ray etc), blood tests, when / how long they were sick for and which medicines they took and so on.
For me, it's all over: physical documents in a file folder, things on email, on my phone or in my laptop.
I've been wanting to build an app to have all this centralized for years but family, another project and full-time job kept me busy.
A specific example:
- both my daughters have atopic dermatitis and we're seeing a dermatologist on Friday. I know she'll ask me questions like "when did this eczema appear?" and I'll sort of have an idea but it won't be exact (or in some cases just plain wrong).
A simple solution with an app like this is to take a picture, tag the kid in the app and there you go, it's there on a timeline. Anything that follows you can attach to the record. Treatment, photos of progress, etc.
Would this be a product you would like to have? and if yes, would you pay for it?
Many thanks.
Would love to see this. We use huckleberry for tracking sleep. I love the App, it allows tracking other things as well (breast feeding, diapers, medicine, Temperature and growth) and is very infant focused. But we only use it for tracking sleep. Would love to have something similar but that’s just focused on health (+vaccines and growth) as you described. Especially timelines with photos and notes per child would be awesome as we have actually several times painted timelines on a piece of paper to show to a doctor.
Thanks for the feedback and encouragement. (I'm not alone 😄)
I was starting to feel that the post would just get pushed down and no one would see it. Glad you found it.
Will keep you (and IH) posted on the future of this.
I guess the two things I would most care about is: Privacy and Portability (Backups). Privacy should not need any further explanation but would love if it was one of the main concerns of the app (using something like https://userbase.com/ for example). Regarding Portability: Who knows if the app will still get updates in a couple of years times, but as Health Records is something I would ideally like to have life long access to I think portability of the saved data is crucial as well. Meaning I could export data very easily or create some kind of external backup (e.G. Dropbox). If you ask me if I am vaccinated against something specific, I would probably have no idea – I lost the documentation over the years and neither I nor my parents can remember.
Funny, that's exactly what I intend to use.
In terms of portability, haven't put much thought on it but will definitely look into it.
Perfect example with your vaccines. In fact, the idea for this app is not just kids but it helps keeps the audience small and focused. Another example, I've made a lot of blood tests over the years and they probably tell a story (to an expert) but it's lost forever.