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 in one health system, a primary care doctor at a different practice, an orthopedist from the surgery two years ago, a dermatologist who's been the same for decades, and an urgent care they visited twice last winter. Five sets of records. Five different patient portals — if the practices have portals at all. Some will mail paper copies if you ask nicely and wait three weeks.
This is the situation most adult children find themselves in. The apps below are the ones actually worth your time.
Family Stork gives your parent one private email address shown on their record. Any provider — GP, cardiologist, hospital discharge department — can email visit summaries, lab results, and medication lists to it. The records file themselves automatically. No portal login, no app for the clinic to learn, no scanning. The doctor sends an email; the record updates.
You can organize records from paper (photograph them; the AI extracts the data), from supported patient portals via MyChart Connect, and from any provider who sends email.
Who it's for: Adult children who want a true single record for a parent — everything from every provider in one searchable timeline. Siblings can all access the same record. The emergency card is always ready.
Pricing: $99/year (about $10/month).
What it's not: A care-coordination platform (for scheduling and task lists, see Caring Village). Organizational and health records only — ask your parent's doctor about medical decisions.
Caring Village is built for the logistics of caregiving — task lists, medication reminders, a care team journal, and a shared calendar for the family members and paid helpers who are all involved. It does include a place to store health records, though record intake (getting records from providers automatically) is more limited.
Best for: Families with large, distributed care teams who need coordination features as much as records. Think: three siblings in different cities, a home health aide, a neighbor who checks in.
What it doesn't do: Automatic record filing from provider emails; the focus is care coordination, not health record intake.
If your parent's doctors all work within large hospital networks that use Epic/MyChart, you can often use MyChart's linked accounts feature (proxy access) to view their records from your own MyChart login. Apple Health and Google Health can also pull records from participating health systems.
The limitation: This works only for providers within supported health systems. Small practices, independent specialists, urgent cares, and older providers often aren't in the Epic network. The portal shows one hospital's records, not all records from all providers.
Use it alongside Family Stork: Family Stork supports MyChart Connect — pull records from hospital portals AND receive records from providers who aren't in any portal system.
The family group text is how most caregiving families share records today: someone photographs a discharge summary, texts it to the group, it scrolls away in two days, nobody can find it in January when the cardiologist asks about the hospitalization.
Family Stork gives siblings a shared record instead of a shared text thread. The sibling managing day-to-day care keeps the record current. Other siblings can view the full timeline — every visit, every medication change, every discharge paper — without needing anything from the managing sibling. Access is controlled by the account owner. The parent can remain the record owner as long as they're able.
For more on this, see our guide: Siblings, one parent, five doctors: sharing a parent's health record.
The discharge moment is when the most important records get lost. The nurses are handing over paperwork while your parent is exhausted and ready to go home. Here's what to capture before you leave the building:
Photograph every page immediately. Family Stork's AI reads the photo and files the contents. Ask your parent's doctor or the discharge nurse what to do with each piece of the paperwork — they're the right source for medical decisions.
Guide: Hospital discharge papers: what to keep with the health record.
| Need | Best tool |
|---|---|
| One timeline of all records from all providers | Family Stork |
| Doctors can email records and they file automatically | Family Stork |
| Siblings all access the same record | Family Stork |
| Task lists, care schedules, caregiving journal | Caring Village |
| Pull records from a specific hospital's MyChart | MyChart proxy / Family Stork + MyChart Connect |
| Emergency card for paramedics or an urgent care visit | Family Stork emergency card |
The easiest approach: give each of your parent's doctors a single private email address (Family Stork provides one per person, shown on the record). When a provider sends anything to it — visit summary, lab result, medication list — it files itself automatically. No portal logins, no uploads. For records that already exist, photograph paper records or export from patient portals. Ask your parent's doctors directly for copies of any records you're missing — they are required by law to provide them.
Family Stork lets the account owner invite siblings to view the record. Each sibling sees the same timeline — every doctor visit, medication list, discharge paper — without back-and-forth texts. Access is controlled by the account owner.
Discharge summary, medication reconciliation list, home care orders, and follow-up appointment details. Photograph every page before you leave — discharge papers are easy to lose and critical at the next provider visit. Ask the discharge nurse what each document means for your parent's care.
Yes. Family Stork gives every person a private email address shown on their record. Any doctor, specialist, or hospital can email records to it — and they file automatically into the health timeline. The doctor sends an email the way they already do; no new system for the clinic to learn.
Yes. Family Stork is for the whole family across all ages — children, adults, and aging parents. You can start a record for your parent and manage it yourself. There's no requirement to also have children's records in the same account.
Family Stork is for caring for an aging parent — one record for every doctor, every sibling, every hospital stay. Give each provider the address shown on the record and the records arrive on their own.
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