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He built an app with AI to keep his own lab reports and watch the trends over years

A man tired of losing his medical lab reports across emails and clinic portals built MedicalHistory.app with AI, first for himself. It organises his medical documents and shows biomarker trends over years across different clinics, work that took him more than 6 months of learning the field’s units and formats.

How it works

  1. He starts building the app with AI for his own reports
  2. The work grows over 6 months as he learns units, conversions and lab formats
  3. The app organises his documents and charts his biomarker trends over years
  4. He makes it available to everyone

Why it’s worth knowing

One person’s lost paperwork problem became working software that tracks health numbers across clinics and years.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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