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Show HN: Fasten Health – open-source Personal Health Record – 27,000 providers

by analogj on 1/29/24, 12:48 PM with 1 comments

Hey HN!

About a year and a half ago, I was diagnosed with a chronic condition and I realized that my medical history (and the medical history of my family members) is a lot more complicated than I realized. I need a single, private location to store our medical records, and I just couldn't find any software that worked as I'd like:

- self-hosted/offline - this is my medical history, I'm not willing to give it to some random multi-national corporation to data-mine and sell

- It should aggregate my data from multiple healthcare providers (insurance companies, hospital networks, clinics, labs) that I've used over my career/lifetime.

- automatic - it should pull my EMR (electronic medical record) directly from my insurance provider/clinic/hospital network - I don't want to scan/OCR physical documents (unless I have to)

- open source - the code should be available for contributions & auditing

So, I built it

Fasten Health is an open-source, privacy-first, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator, designed to integrate with 100,000's of insurance companies, healthcare providers and laboratories. It securely connects patient healthcare providers together, creating a personal health record that never leaves the patient's hands without their consent.

Fasten Health recently released v1 of our software and our desktop app was finally published in the App Store!

Your feedback & support would be incredibly helpful :)

  • by cfu28 on 1/29/24, 6:56 PM

    Awesome progress, and incredible how much you’ve been able to do in the past year!