Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use. Tired of managing health records for yourself and everyone you love? Family Stork organizes them for you automatically.
Your parent sees a cardiologist, a primary care doctor, an endocrinologist, and an orthopedist. Each one adjusts medications. Each one sends discharge papers to a different portal — or hands your parent a printout they fold into a pocket.
If you're the adult child keeping track, you're working from memory. You type what you think the current medications are into an app. You update the list when your parent remembers to tell you. You miss the change the hospitalist made at 2 a.m. because nobody called you.
This is the fundamental problem with manual-entry caregiver apps: the record is only as current as the last time someone sat down and typed.
MyParentHQ is an iPhone app built for adult children caring for aging parents. It does what it promises well: you enter medications, allergies, conditions, appointments, and emergency contacts. It has a Hospital Mode with large-text display for the ER. It has an Emergency Packet. Role-based access lets siblings see what they need.
All of that is genuinely useful. The question is what happens between your data-entry sessions — the visits you didn't attend, the prescriptions that changed, the lab results that came back on a Tuesday afternoon.
Family Stork works differently. Each person in your family — your parent, yourself, your children — gets a private email address shown on their record. You give that address to the cardiologist's office, the hospital registration desk, the lab. When they send a visit summary, a discharge report, or a lab result, it arrives in the record and files itself.
No typing. No remembering. No relying on your parent to relay what the doctor said. The clinic sends what the clinic sent, and the record is current.
| MyParentHQ | Family Stork | |
|---|---|---|
| How records get in | You type them | Clinics email them; paper records you snap — AI does the data entry |
| Medication list stays current? | If you update it manually | Updates when the clinic sends the visit summary |
| Platforms | iPhone only | Web + any device |
| Who it covers | Aging parents | Whole family — children, yourself, aging parents |
| Sharing with siblings | Role-based access in the app | Invite anyone — they see only what you choose |
| Emergency info | Hospital Mode, Emergency Packet | Emergency card, Family Health Passport (printable) |
| Pricing | Free to start (App Store) | $99/year or about $10/month — whole family |
Your parent sees five providers. You live in one city; your sibling lives in another. Your parent had a hospital stay last month — the discharge papers listed three medication changes and a follow-up appointment with a new specialist.
With a manual-entry app, someone has to read those papers and type the updates. If your parent lost the printout, you're guessing. If the hospital sent a portal message, it's locked behind a login only your parent has.
With Family Stork, the hospital emails the discharge summary to your parent's private Family Stork address. It shows up in the record. Both siblings see it. The medication list reflects what the hospitalist actually prescribed — not what you think they prescribed.
MyParentHQ is a good fit if you're the sole caregiver, your parent sees one or two providers, and you're comfortable keeping the data current by hand. The Hospital Mode and Emergency Packet are thoughtful features for an ER visit.
Family Stork is built for the harder version of that job: multiple providers, siblings in different places, and records arriving from clinics without anyone needing to type. The record is always at least as current as the last clinic visit — because the clinic sends what they send, and it files itself.
Yes. MyParentHQ works well as a quick-reference command center for appointments and emergency contacts. Family Stork holds the full clinical record — visit summaries, lab results, discharge papers — the documents clinics actually produce. They solve different parts of the caregiving job.
Most clinics email visit summaries — it's a standard workflow. For paper records, snap a photo and Family Stork's AI does the data entry. For portal records, Family Stork connects to supported portals (including MyChart). Ask your doctor — or ask your parent to ask — whether they can email records to the private Family Stork address.
That's exactly the problem the email address solves. Going forward, each provider emails new records to one address. For existing records, you can snap paper copies or connect supported portals. Over time, one record replaces five logins.
No. One account covers your whole family — your parent, yourself, your children. Each person gets their own private email address and their own record. The record lasts a lifetime.
Invite them. They see only what you choose to share. No group texts with photos of medication bottles. No forwarding discharge papers by email. Everyone with access sees the same current record.
One health story. One email address every clinic already knows how to use.
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