[thomasruns]

This is great news if you or someone in your family has ever:

- Moved and had to come up with child vaccination records from another state (or multiple states) from 5+ years ago.

- Seen doctors across multiple health organizations who all want to run the same tests, or fill out a records request form that gets faxed and delays treatment by another month.

- Applied for disability or anything else that requires medical records and had to fax 10 different records request forms, wait a month or more, then pay printing fees for each.

[ams6110]

How so? What organization demanding immunization records is going to accept a screenshot from your phone?

[prepend]

I was really surprised by this. When I moved to the state I had to get immunization records for my kid’s school. My pediatrician was able to pull up some automatically, but it was missing some. She asked me about it, I told her that the kid got the shots didn’t know the exact day. The doc added that to the form that I gave to my school. I was shocked that there was no real data checks.

What’s even crazier is that I once had to travel on official business to some travel restricted regions that required a ton of vaccinations. My proof that was checked by immigration in lots of 1st World and 3rd world countries? A little yellow folded up piece of paper with checkboxes and initials from a doctor.

[thomasruns]

They currently accept a printout from Walgreens, so you'd probably be surprised what they would accept. But at the very least this is a great first step that will hopefully lead to a printout or some method of providing records that others will accept as valid.

[nwhatt]

It looks to be read-only at the moment, meaning you can't necessarily walk into one of those few health care systems with your iPhone and have the data sync with the EHR.

[thomasruns]

Syncing would be nice, but just being able to show that a test was already done and was negative means the doctor can move on to whatever is next instead of having to request that record and wait for it. I think there are already benefits like that, plus the potential for much more if syncing and printing of records can be added.