HACKER Q&A
📣 apatheticonion

Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?


Aside from excel/Google Sheets,

Does anyone know of a web app (preferably) that lets you manually input blood test results?

The hope is a service that creates graphs of historic records, provides reference values comparison, unit conversion, and offers insights (like what high/low values could indicate)?


  👤 analogj Accepted Answer ✓
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 has not been implemented yet.

Fasten is still a work-in-progress, but if you're willing to contribute we have a pretty active discord (linked in the README).

[1]: https://github.com/fastenhealth/fasten-onprem/ [2]: https://github.com/fastenhealth/fasten-onprem/issues/137


👤 relyks
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 a timeline format. Their service is not cheap though.

[1]: https://picnichealth.com/


👤 Nerada
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.

👤 westoncolemanl
Dashlabs.ai https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dashlabs-ai

We work with diagnostic laboratories in the Philippines. Besides blood tests, we let users input results for clinical chemistry tests, x-rays, and more. We're also able to pull results straight out from hematology analyzers and other diagnostic equipment.

We also provide delta checking (comparison of your current vs past results), reference range checks, and unit conversion. We don't offer insights, but it is something we can build with a large enough dataset.

Hit me up if you're interested!


👤 nickmandal
I built a platform called Iterate (https://www.iteratehealth.com) that allows you to track blood tests and other biomarkers including VO2 Max, DEXA Scan.

Some of the specific biomarkers you can input into the platform include LDL-C, HDL-C, Triglycerides, Non-HDL-C, VLDL-C, TG/HDL-C, Total Cholesterol, Lp(a), ApoB, ApoE, Homocysteine, hsCRP, Uric acid, Fasting Insulin, Fasting Glucose, OGTT, Hba1c, Campesterol, Sitosterol, Lathosterol, Desmosterol, TSH, fT4, fT3, rT3, ATA, ATPA, Estradiol, FSH, LH, SHBG, Testosterone, Free testosterone, PSA, ALT, AST, Total bilirubin, Cystatin C, eGFR - Cystatin C, Hb, Ferritin, Omega-3, and Vitamin D.

Once your blood test results are inputted, the system enables graphical representation of your historical records. This can help visualize trends over time, potentially revealing patterns or changes that might otherwise remain unnoticed. It also provides reference values for comparison, making it easier to understand where your results sit within the broader context (for things like gender/age).

It also tracks metrics across sleep, exercise, nutrition, emotional health using data from your wearables.


👤 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 )

👤 vivegi
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.


👤 deathhand
I found a provider (NYU Lagone) that uses Epic since early 2010s.

I've heard problems with people who use the tool but as a patient to be able go see a decade plus of my hospital visits, checkups, scans, and x rays is pretty amazing.


👤 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?

👤 miguelrochefort

👤 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


👤 cassianoleal
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/


👤 tru3_power
Apple health does a lot of this

👤 jchook
I recall Dr. David Sinclair mentions a company that specializes in biometrics insights and tracking in his book Lifespan.

It may have been InsideTracker (https://www.insidetracker.com/) or Tally Health (https://tallyhealth.com/).


👤 vaibhavdod
I am currently working on building SarathiAI

https://www.sarathiai.com

Started to build this for a personal usecase, based on the feedback I can add more functionality. Currently in alpha, and I am working on injesting lab reports.


👤 vinner_roy
I don't think it has been done yet due to the difficulty in syncing the data in there (manual entry sucks). I think companies like Forward (https://goforward.com/) offer this to their patients via their app.

👤 elamje
That’s exactly what my company, https://functionhealth.com does.

We haven’t built historic import yet, but our members get to see all labs over time in a slick web interface.

What do you all think about the pricing and product from our homepage?


👤 rseech01
There isn't as far as I can tell, perhaps quest diagnostics might have something, but what's so interesting is how fundamental blood work like a CBC is in diagnosing and monitoring any disease or health conditions.


👤 Ocha
Apple health connects to my hospital and I have all test results there. It’s great

👤 postcynical
Wellnessfx.com is ok and free.

👤 colechristensen
Something basic wouldn’t be that hard to put together