The things no one hands you with the diagnosis.

Printables

Free, single-page forms, logs, and checklists you can print and fill in by hand — the ones families actually reach for between appointments. No login, no email gate. Print any of them, or save as a PDF.

• Blood pressure log → A clean monthly log with a pulse column and a plain-English reference for what the numbers mean.
• Medication list → One page that holds every medication, dose, and reason — the sheet you hand a new doctor or grab on the way to the ER.
• Blood sugar log → A daily glucose log with room for before- and after-meal readings, insulin, and notes.
• Emergency medical info sheet → The single page EMS or an ER would want if someone can't speak for themselves. For the fridge, a wallet, a phone case.
• Medical records release form → Request a copy of your own records under HIPAA — a fill-in letter to send the provider that holds them.

All printables →

Comparing tools

Families often arrive at KeptWell from a tool that wasn't quite the right fit. Side-by-side comparisons we've published so far:

• KeptWell vs CaringBridge → Private medical record hub vs public family update journal.
• KeptWell vs PicnicHealth → Family-shared and won't sell your data vs single-patient with a research-funded free tier.
• KeptWell vs Trustworthy → Medical-only and AI-read vs the family operating system for every household document.
• KeptWell vs Outcomes4Me → Family-shared and never sells your data vs the cancer-vertical app where pharma pays for access.
• KeptWell vs Everplans → Active medical care this month vs end-of-life and legacy planning for when something happens.
• KeptWell vs MyChart → The layer above every MyChart vs the patient portal for whichever hospitals in your life run on Epic.

Side-by-side comparisons

The deeper head-to-head pages — feature-by-feature, with an honest case for picking the other tool included. If you have read an alternatives page and want one more layer of detail before deciding, start here:

• KeptWell vs CaringBridge (compare) → The deeper head-to-head: private medical record hub vs public family-update journal.
• KeptWell vs MyChart (compare) → The deeper head-to-head: the layer above every patient portal vs the patient portal for one Epic hospital.
• KeptWell vs PicnicHealth (compare) → The deeper head-to-head: family-shared and never sells data vs single-patient with a research-funded free tier.

All side-by-side comparisons →

Connecting a patient portal or Apple Health

Most families keep MyChart and add KeptWell on top. These pages cover what imports automatically, and how to get the records out of a portal by hand when a health system has not enabled import yet:

• MyChart records import → Connect a MyChart account and labs, medications, diagnoses, and visits land in the circle.
• Apple Health sync → The clinical records already on an iPhone, synced from the KeptWell iOS app.
• What a personal health record app does → The layer above every portal, and why a family needs one.
• How to download medical records from MyChart → The export bundle, the PDF route, and what each one leaves out.
• How to share MyChart access with family → Proxy access, what it covers, and what it does not.
• Find and print immunization records in MyChart → Where the vaccine history lives and how to get a copy a school will accept.
• How to export Apple Health data → The export file, what is inside it, and how to share it without handing over the phone.

Tools

Free, no-account utilities for the paperwork side of caregiving. The first one handles the step before KeptWell is even useful: actually getting the records out of the provider's hands.

• Medical records request letter generator → Fill out a few fields and download a HIPAA records-request letter, ready to print and mail. Pre-filled for 20+ major health systems. Free, nothing saved.
• Medication schedule builder → Enter each medication and how often it's taken — get a daily dosing grid with the times laid out, plus a clean list for the doctor. Free, nothing saved.
• Medical ID card maker → Fill in allergies, medications, and emergency contacts — download a printable wallet-size medical ID card, front and back. Free, nothing saved.
• Lab values explainer → Type in a lab number and see where it falls against the typical range, what high or low usually means, and what moves it for harmless reasons. Runs in your browser.
• Medical history form → The new-patient form nobody can fill out from memory. Fill it in online, print a clean one-page history or save it as a PDF. Runs in your browser.

All tools →

Guides

Long-form, practical walkthroughs of the things no one prepared you to do. Step by step, no fluff, written the way we wish someone had explained it to us:

• How to organize medical records → The step-by-step guide for getting every scan, lab, and discharge summary into one place — and keeping it current.
• How long do doctors keep medical records? → What HIPAA actually requires, how state laws layer on top, the special rules for pediatric records, and what happens when a practice closes.
• How to find old medical records → The practical chase — prior providers, HIPAA's right of access, closed practices, state archives, and helping a parent, child, or deceased relative.
• Caregiver handoff checklist for siblings → The one page that moves care from one sibling to the next: what changed, what is still open, who owns it, and where the current documents live.
• Terminal lucidity, and what to do in the window you get → The rally before death: how long the window usually lasts, why it is not recovery, what to say and what to feed while it holds, and what it means when it never comes.
• What a high RDW means on your blood test → The flagged CBC line people meet in a portal before anyone explains it: what the red cell width measures, and why it is a clue rather than a diagnosis.
• What low MCHC (and low or high MCH) mean on your blood test → The two red-cell indices nobody explains: why they are calculated rather than measured, where your number sits among US adults, and why a high MCHC is usually the sample.
• What leukocyte esterase in your urine means → The dipstick line that gets read as an infection: why a positive result is often contamination or bacteria that need no treatment, what the grades mean, and when to call.
• What squamous epithelial cells in your urine mean → Usually skin cells the sample picked up on the way into the cup, which happens to about 39 percent of samples: what the counts mean and when the sample should be redone.
• What hyaline casts in your urine mean → The mildest finding in the urine sediment, decoded bin by bin: why the 0-2 cutoff is convention, and which lines beside it decide what a count means.
• What urobilinogen in your urine means → The urinalysis line whose published ranges do not agree: why 0.2 and normal are the same statement, and where the 2.0 flag came from.
• What a hospitalist is → The doctor at the bedside is a stranger and your own doctor is not coming: who is in charge today, how to reach them, and what has to happen at discharge.
• What an attending physician is → The role that decides who is actually in charge of an admission: the four places the name is written down, who on the team can change the plan, and why it changes midweek.

All guides →

Use cases

Families show up at KeptWell with a specific problem in mind — a digital medical binder, a scanner that actually reads the page, a cancer-paperwork pile. Same product, framed by what you came in for:

• For a medical binder → A digital medical binder that an AI reads, summarizes, and answers questions about.
• For a medical document scanner → Scans the page and reads what's on it — labs, medications, dates, key findings.
• For a cancer binder → Pathology, staging, treatment plan, lab tracker, side-effect log — for the whole family.
• For a medical record organizer → Auto-sorts new records by type and date so the family member keeping things straight isn't a filing clerk.