Practical guides to your health records
How to request, store, organize, and carry your medical records, plus what privacy law says about your health data. Written for patients and caregivers.
Organizing an aging parent’s health: where to start
It is not a medical chart. It is one folder per person, authorization before you need it, and a place that opens in the ER with no signal. A starting point for caregivers, and what FichaMed covers.
Read article →How to keep ongoing prescriptions from slipping through the cracks
The paper stays at the pharmacy, the box lives in a kitchen drawer, and the next clinician asks what you take. Five habits so continuous treatment does not depend on memory, and where FichaMed fits.
Read article →What to have ready for an emergency room visit
Nobody organizes paperwork at three in the morning. The information triage always asks for, how to have it ready before you need it, and what to ask for before you leave the emergency department.
Read article →What to bring to a first appointment with a specialist
A first specialist visit is short, and it starts with you reconstructing years of history from memory. The checklist of what to bring, what to write down the night before, and the questions worth the last five minutes.
Read article →How to bring your health history to a visit without scrolling the camera roll
Photos of test results in your gallery solve the day and slow down the next visit. What to put in one file, the ten-second phone test, and how FichaMed builds that PDF on the device.
Read article →How long to keep medical records, test results, and prescriptions
Not every health document deserves permanent storage, and not everything is safe to shred. How long your provider keeps your file, what you need for tax and HSA purposes, and what you can throw away without regret.
Read article →How to request your medical records: a step-by-step guide
You have a legal right to a copy of your medical records. Here is what to ask for, who to ask, how long providers must keep your file, what they can charge, and what to do with the files once they arrive.
Read article →Health app with a cloud or without: what changes for you
This is not an architecture debate. It is who holds a copy of your history, what happens if the company disappears, and whether the file opens in the clinic with no signal.
Read article →Who can see the health data on your phone
The unlocked phone on the clinic desk, the prescription screenshot in the family album, the shared photo backup. Practical habits so a clinical history does not leak, and what FichaMed does (and does not) with that data.
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