Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use. Give that address to any doctor, lab, or hospital. They email records to it — visit summaries, lab results, vaccine updates, discharge papers — and the timeline files them automatically. No portal logins. No scanning. Nothing for the clinic to learn.
Every clinic already has email. Every front-desk staff member knows how to send an attachment. That is the whole insight: instead of asking clinics to learn a new system, join a new network, or install new software, Family Stork gives each person an email address clinics already know how to use.
No FHIR network to check. No patient portal to enroll in. No upload button for you to click. You hand the address to the front desk, the nurse, or the records department — and records start flowing in.
This is the part most health records apps get wrong. They ask you to do the work: download from this portal, upload to that app, photograph this paper, type in that result. Family Stork asks the clinic to do what it already does — send an email — and the record builds itself.
Add a person to your Family Stork account — your baby, yourself, your aging parent. Family Stork generates their private email address. It looks like this: slug@families.familystork.com, where the slug is unique to that person.
At the pediatrician, the cardiologist, the lab, the hospital records department — give them the address shown on the person's record. Ask them to send visit summaries, results, and records there. Most clinics add it as the patient's preferred email in their system, so every future record goes to it automatically.
When the clinic emails a visit summary, lab result, vaccine record, or discharge paper to the address, Family Stork receives it, parses the content, and adds it to that person's health timeline. The record shows up with the date, the provider, and the key information — filed and searchable.
"When was her last flu shot?" "What did the dermatologist say about the biopsy?" "Which medications did Mom's cardiologist change in September?" The answers come from the actual clinical records the clinics sent — not from your memory, not from a transcription of a conversation.
Without the email address, keeping a family's health records together looks like this:
The email address replaces all of that. Records flow in from every clinic, automatically, as they happen. You give the address once; the record builds from that moment forward. For existing records, snap paper documents and AI handles the data entry.
Start with one paper from the hospital nursery. Family Stork does the rest. The first-year vaccination schedule is ready before the first well-baby visit. School forms, daycare health records, camp physicals — they're all in the same timeline, from every doctor, from birth onward. Back-to-school health records hub.
The record is held for them, then handed to them when they're ready.
Your parents' records are scattered across every doctor they ever had. The cardiologist, the orthopedist, the primary care doctor, the hospital that did the knee replacement three years ago. Give each one your parent's private Family Stork address and records start arriving in one place — visible to you and every sibling who needs it. Caregiver resources.
Moving to a new city. Switching insurance. Getting a second opinion. Starting with a new doctor who knows nothing about you. Your private Family Stork address means you never start from scratch — the record is already there, from every provider, organized and ready to share. Your own health record.
The family invites a helper. The helper sees only what the family chooses — allergies, medications, emergency contacts, the emergency card. Helpers never own or manage the record; they see what they need and nothing more. Helper resources.
Free for the clinic, always. Invite a patient to start their record. Reply to the record's address and it files itself. Family Stork does not cross the clinical line — it holds the record, not the relationship. For doctors.
MyChart belongs to the hospital. Every hospital system has its own MyChart login. Your child's pediatrician, the allergist, and the ER are three separate portals with three separate logins. If you change doctors or move, the records stay behind in each hospital's system. Family Stork vs MyChart — the full comparison.
Apple Health connects via API. Apple Health pulls records from hospitals that have FHIR connections enabled — a technology standard that about 60% of large hospital systems support, but that many smaller clinics, urgent care centers, and independent pediatricians do not. If your clinic isn't on the network, Apple Health can't reach the records. Apple Health vs a dedicated family health records app.
Family Stork works with email. Every clinic has email. No API connection needed. No portal enrollment. No network to check. If the front desk can send an email attachment, the records flow in.
Free forever to organize — create records, add family members, invite helpers. $99/year for Family Stork to do the work: the private email address, automatic filing, AI question-answering, paper-record scanning, and every feature across all family members. About $10 a month.
Yes. Family Stork creates a private @families.familystork.com address for each person on your account — a child, yourself, or an aging parent. Give that address to any clinic. They email records to it and the health timeline files them automatically. No other major health records app provides a per-person private email address for receiving records directly from clinics.
No. The clinic sends an email. That is the entire technical requirement. No software to install, no network to join, no API to configure. Family Stork works with any provider who has an email system — which is every provider.
Any document a clinic would normally email: visit summaries, lab results, imaging reports, discharge papers, referral letters, vaccine administration records, prescription histories, care plans. If it's a document the clinic generates, it works.
That is exactly the problem it solves. Create a record for your parent. Give each of their doctors — the cardiologist, the primary care doctor, the orthopedist, the pulmonologist, the hospital — your parent's private address. Records from all of them arrive in one timeline, visible to you and every sibling who needs access. How to gather records from every doctor.
Yes — that is exactly how Family Stork works. Your pediatrician emails the visit summary to your child's private Family Stork address. It arrives, gets parsed, and lands on the child's timeline. The same address works for every doctor your child sees — the allergist, the dentist, urgent care — one address, every record, filed automatically.
Tired of managing health records for yourself and everyone you love? Family Stork organizes them for you automatically.
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