Practical guides on getting, organizing, and actually using your medical records — plus news from OwnVital.
The app that puts your medical records on your phone, organized, answering your questions, and never leaving your device, arrives August 1, 2026. Join the waitlist for one email on launch day.
Every new provider hands you the same clipboard: list your surgeries, medications, family history, from memory, in a waiting room. Here's why the intake form never died, and how OwnVital makes it fill itself.
Here's a simple way to find out where a health app really keeps your data: turn off the internet. OwnVital passes, on purpose. Here's the architecture decision behind it.
Apple Health, MyChart, Guava, a folder of PDFs, or the classic binder: what each approach does well, where it falls short, and how to pick the right one for your situation.
A practical system for wrangling decades of records across multiple doctors: what to gather first, what every folder needs, and how to be ready for the ER question you can never answer fast enough.
MyChart, Healow, FollowMyHealth, athenahealth… every provider has a portal, and none of them talk to each other. Here's why that happened and how to actually keep track of your health history.
You have a legal right to your medical records. Here is exactly how to request them, what it can cost, the deadlines providers must meet, and what to do when nobody calls you back.