Mobile app to track Thyroid conditions symptoms, medicines, tests

[Tuscansun]

Wanted to ask if there is a mobile app to track Thyroid conditions symptoms, medicines, tests etc.? I am thinking about building such an app... Would it help to manage the condition better? Will appreciate your views and opinions.

[helvella]

Have you looked at Apple App Store and Google Play?

I think a big problem is that many of us would probably want to let Apple Health manage what it is good at - and add thyroid-specific extras. Not have a totally separate app.

We have this issue with, for example, the NHS app and private blood tests.

If I get a private blood test, I want those results to go into Apple Health, to be available in the NHS app (so that I can optionally allow NHS medical staff to access them), and not need to be retyped. I want a Free T4 test to be seen as being that wherever it is sourced. Including abroad. Not T4 LIbre from France being an entirely other test. To manage changes to units. To cope with multiple reference intervals.

But I do think there are thyroid-specific things. Not least allowing, and encouraging, makes of tablets to be included.

What I really, really do not want is to have to cope with multiple apps. And manage data transfers - whether daily or if I change device, or an app is no longer available.

[Tuscansun in reply to helvella]

Thank you! Agree that it's better to have one "aggregator" where everything health related is in one place. Regarding docs (test results): definitely should be a feature to upload (for digital docs) or scan (for printed docs) it - then all tests can be added to the app automatically and data can be extracted.

[helvella in reply to Tuscansun]

Labs should be at the least encouraged to print something, maybe a QR code, on them. They can hold quite a bit of information and would support transfer of results into any repository or app - as needed. (Version 10 allows 174 characters. So a QR code per test would likely be sufficient. And would make it easy for someone to choose to add a selection of tests.)

[Tuscansun in reply to helvella]

Better digital than printed version from environmental standpoint... QR code would be helpful...

[helvella in reply to Tuscansun]

Oh - very much agree! Though if sent as a PDF, then a QR code can be embedded. Not exactly ideal but better than transcription - automatic or manual - with attendant tendency for mistakes to accumulate.

[HighlandMo]

I would really like that. I like the Medichecks summary but the private doctor I’m now seeing insists on using their tests so I no longer have the summary I’m used to. It would be good to have relevant minerals and vitamins summary too.