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.
A family of four sees an average of eight to twelve different providers. The pediatrician. Your OB-GYN. A dermatologist. Your father's cardiologist. The urgent care you visited on vacation. Each provider keeps their own records in their own system. You get a portal login for each — or a paper printout, or nothing at all.
The result: your family's medical history lives in a dozen places. When you need it — switching pediatricians, enrolling in a new school, preparing for a specialist visit, helping an aging parent after a hospital stay — you spend hours logging into portals, calling offices, and digging through drawers.
Apps that promise to fix this usually add another place to maintain. You upload documents. You type data. You scan paper. It works for a week. Then life gets busy and the app goes stale.
The real problem isn't organization — it's collection. If records don't arrive automatically, no organizational system survives contact with a busy family.
Before you organize anything, collect every medical record you can find. Check:
Do this for every family member. Don't throw anything away yet — even a duplicate might be the only copy with a specific date or dosage.
Each family member needs their own record — not a shared folder, not a family binder with dividers. Your toddler's vaccine history and your mother's medication list should never live in the same container.
Family Stork generates a private @families.familystork.com email address for each person. That address becomes the single destination every provider can send records to. One address per person. One timeline per person.
At the next appointment — or by phone, or through the patient portal's messaging — tell each provider to send visit summaries and records to the person's Family Stork email address. Clinics already know how to email. There's no software to install, no form to fill out, nothing new for the office to learn.
This is the step that makes the difference between an organizational system and a lasting one. Once a clinic has the address, every future visit generates a record that files itself.
Take a photo of each paper record — the vaccine card, the discharge summary, the lab printout, the school physical form. Family Stork's AI reads the document, extracts the relevant data (dates, diagnoses, medications, provider names), and files it on the right person's timeline.
The shoe box of records becomes a searchable digital history in an afternoon. One afternoon, then you never do it again.
Once providers have the email address and the backlog is captured, the system runs itself. Every new visit summary, lab result, vaccine record, and specialist note arrives automatically. The timeline grows without you typing a thing.
Need to answer a question? Ask the record. "When was her last tetanus shot?" "What medication did Dad start in March?" "Does he have any drug allergies?" The record answers from everything it holds.
Year one alone generates a dozen visits. Add siblings and the records multiply fast. Family Stork keeps each child's timeline separate, complete, and ready for school forms, camp, or a new pediatrician. Child health records →
Your parents' records are scattered across every doctor they've ever had. Discharge papers, medication lists, specialist referrals — bring them together in one record that every sibling can access. Caregivers hub →
One health story for a new doctor, a second opinion, a move, a new insurer. Your complete medical history in one place — not spread across five portals from doctors you haven't seen in years. Your record →
Most medical records apps ask you to do the work: upload documents, scan barcodes, type entries manually, connect to a FHIR network that may or may not include your doctor. They solve the organization problem but ignore the collection problem. That's why they go stale.
Family Stork solves collection first. The private email address works with any clinic that can send email — which is all of them. No network to check. No compatibility question. No new software for the provider. Records arrive automatically because the delivery mechanism (email) is universal.
| Feature | Family Stork | Typical records app |
|---|---|---|
| Records arrive automatically | ✓ via email | ✗ manual upload |
| Works with any clinic | ✓ email is universal | Depends on FHIR network |
| One record per person | ✓ | Varies |
| Paper record scanning with AI | ✓ | Some |
| Ask questions of the record | ✓ | Rare |
| Whole family, one subscription | ✓ $99/year | Per-person pricing |
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Not all records are created equal. Focus on these first:
Each child gets their own private email address and their own timeline. Two kids, two addresses, two timelines — each child's records stay separate even when they see the same pediatrician. When your oldest starts school and needs immunization records, you pull them from their timeline without sorting through their sibling's files.
When a child grows up, the record goes with them. It's held for them, then handed to them. More about records for multiple children →
Create one record per family member in Family Stork. Each person gets a private @families.familystork.com email address. Give the address to their providers. Records arrive and file themselves on each person's timeline — children, yourself, aging parents, all in one account but separate timelines.
That's exactly why the email address works. Every clinic can send email — it's the one channel that's universal. No portal, no app, no network membership required. Small practices, urgent cares, specialists, hospitals — they all email.
$99 per year — or about $10 a month. That covers your whole family: as many people as you need, unlimited records. Free to start and organize your first records.
Yes — you manage the record on their behalf. Create a record for your parent, give the email address to their doctors, and the records arrive on your parent's timeline. Siblings can share access to the same record. How to gather a parent's records →
Your records are yours. Family Stork is free to organize — the $99/year subscription adds the AI-powered features (automatic filing, record questioning, data extraction). Your records don't disappear.
One email address per person. Records file themselves. $99/year for your whole family.
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