Every person gets one health story, and one private Family Stork email address every clinic already knows how to use. myFHR by CareEvolution takes a different approach: it connects to hospital FHIR APIs and Medicare's BlueButton 2.0 to pull your clinical data into one app. Both aim to end the scattered-records problem — but the way records get in is completely different.
| myFHR (CareEvolution) | Family Stork | |
|---|---|---|
| How records arrive | FHIR API sync from participating providers | Clinics email visit summaries to a private address |
| Covers every clinic? | Only providers with enabled FHIR endpoints | Any clinic that sends email |
| Medicare data | CMS BlueButton 2.0 (4 years of claims) | Not a direct Medicare API connection |
| Platform | iOS and Android apps | Any device (web-based) |
| Family accounts | Share access with family and caregivers | Separate timeline per family member in one account |
| Paper records | Store images and scans of documents | Snap a photo — AI does the data entry |
| AI features | Alerts for abnormal labs and overdue vaccinations | Ask the record questions in natural language |
| Cost | Free | Free to organize; $99/year for automatic filing |
| Built by | CareEvolution (trusted by 130M+ Americans' data) | TruePrimAI, Inc. |
myFHR (My Family Health Record) is a free personal health record app from CareEvolution, a health IT company trusted by leading hospital systems and health plans to manage data for over 130 million Americans. The app connects to your physicians, hospitals, and insurance companies using FHIR APIs to pull your clinical data — medications, procedures, allergies, diagnoses, lab results, and appointments — into one place.
The Medicare angle: myFHR is one of the few consumer apps approved for the CMS BlueButton 2.0 initiative, which gives patients direct access to four years of Medicare claims data. For older adults or anyone on Medicare, this is a meaningful feature that most health records apps don't offer.
The app also includes smart alerts for abnormal lab results, overdue vaccinations, and readings from connected smartwatches and devices. You can track over-the-counter medications and symptoms like pain or mood. Sharing is built in — you can grant access to family members, caregivers, and your health plan.
myFHR excels at structured clinical data from FHIR-connected providers. If your doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies all participate in the FHIR ecosystem, myFHR can aggregate a detailed picture of your health — medications, labs, diagnoses, claims — without you typing a word. The BlueButton 2.0 connection for Medicare data is a standout feature for older adults and their caregivers.
CareEvolution's enterprise background (hospital systems and health plans) means the company understands clinical data formats deeply. The alerts for abnormal labs and overdue vaccinations add clinical value beyond simple record storage.
FHIR coverage is real but uneven. The 21st Century Cures Act requires hospitals to offer patient-facing APIs, but "offer" and "work reliably for consumer apps" are different things. The gaps are familiar:
myFHR connects to the providers in the FHIR network. The rest — the small practice, the one-off specialist, the paper form — stays wherever it was.
Family Stork doesn't use FHIR APIs. Instead, each person in your family gets a private email address (shown on their record at @families.familystork.com). You give this address to every provider — the pediatrician, the specialist, the lab, the school nurse. After each visit, the clinic emails the visit summary to that address. It lands on the person's timeline and files itself.
The key difference: FHIR requires the provider to have an enabled API. Email requires the clinic to have email — which is all of them. The mechanic works with any provider, any EHR system, any size practice. There's nothing new for the clinic to learn.
For families, each person has their own address and their own timeline in one account. A parent managing a baby's first-year checkups, their own records, and a Medicare-age parent's cardiology visits has everything in one place.
If you or a family member is on Medicare, myFHR's BlueButton 2.0 connection is a genuine advantage. Four years of claims data — every doctor visit, every procedure, every medication billed — pulled automatically into the app. Few consumer health record apps offer this.
Family Stork approaches Medicare-age records differently: the private email address works with any provider sending summaries, including the ones managing Medicare patients. But it doesn't pull claims data directly from CMS. For comprehensive Medicare billing history, myFHR has the edge.
myFHR handles individual records well — one person connecting to their providers, their Medicare data, their smartwatch. Sharing is possible, but the app is designed around a single person's health data.
Family Stork is built for the family case: a parent managing records for children (from birth), their own health, and an aging parent. Each family member gets their own private email address and timeline. Records from every provider — FHIR-connected hospitals and the small-practice pediatrician alike — arrive by email and file themselves. One account, whole family, every provider.
For an individual on Medicare who primarily uses large hospital systems: myFHR is a strong choice. For a parent juggling multiple family members across dozens of providers: the email mechanic is built for exactly that.
Yes. They solve different parts of the puzzle. myFHR pulls structured FHIR data from connected hospitals and Medicare claims. Family Stork receives visit summaries from any clinic by email and builds a family-wide timeline. Using both gives you FHIR data from large hospitals and email-based records from everywhere else.
It depends on whether the pediatrician's system has an active FHIR API endpoint that myFHR can connect to. Large hospital-affiliated practices are more likely to support this. Small independent practices often don't. With Family Stork, you give the pediatrician your child's private email address — any office that sends email can use it. Ask your pediatrician for guidance on your child's specific health needs.
No. MyChart is Epic's patient portal — it shows records from one hospital system. myFHR is a personal health record app that connects to multiple providers via FHIR APIs. Family Stork is a family health record that receives records from any clinic via a private email address. MyChart belongs to the hospital; myFHR and Family Stork belong to you.
myFHR is free, supported by CareEvolution's enterprise health IT business. Family Stork is free to organize records; $99/year (about $10/month) covers automatic filing — clinics email records, and they file themselves on the timeline.
For a parent on Medicare seeing providers at large hospital systems: myFHR's BlueButton 2.0 and FHIR connections aggregate a lot of data automatically. For a parent seeing a mix of providers — some at large hospitals, some at small practices, some at independent specialists — Family Stork's email mechanic reaches every provider regardless of their tech stack. Many families managing aging parents use both. For medical emergencies, call 911.
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