Your complete health record — in your hands.
Modern healthcare is fragmented. You see different doctors, take different tests, and pick up prescriptions from different pharmacies — and nobody but you has the complete picture. PHR puts that picture in one place, on your iPad.
When you keep your own record, you walk into every appointment knowing what's on file, what changed since last time, and what questions still need answers. You stop being a passive participant.
Ask AI and Health Check connect your record to Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or xAI (Grok) — and Ask AI also works with Perplexity in Safari — for explanations and analysis without you having to retype your situation from scratch every time.
Pull data from any patient portal that exports CCDA files (most do). Lab results from one clinic, medications from another, immunizations from a travel doctor — all combined in one record you control.
You don't have to remember every medication, condition, or recent procedure in a stressful moment. A printed report — or your iPad with PHR open — has it all in front of you. Share a copy with your spouse or a trusted family member and they can speak for you when you can't.
Up to 10 patients per device. Switch between household members in a tap. One app keeps the kids' immunization records, your aging parents' medications, and your own labs all close at hand.
Print, AirDrop, email, or hand off as a PDF or Excel file. PHR doesn't sit between you and your data — it just makes the data easier to take with you.
An honest look at where a physician portal and Apple Health stop, and where PHR keeps going.
| PHR | Physician Portal | Apple Health | |
|---|---|---|---|
| You own the data | ✓On your iPad | ✗Provider-owned | ~Apple ecosystem |
| Combine records from every provider | ✓Any portal via CCDA | ~Same vendor only | ~Connected providers |
| Works without internet | ✓ | ✗Web login | ✓ |
| Add your own data — OTC, supplements, home readings | ✓ | ✗ | ~Medical ID only |
| One record for the whole family | ✓Up to 10 profiles | ~Proxy, limited | ✗One per device |
| Generate custome screens and reports | ✓Custom Views and Print | ✗ | ✗ |
| Ask AI about your record — privately | ✓Your key, de-identified | ✗ | ✗ |
| Emergency info at a glance | ✓Donor, DNR, allergies | ~Login needed | ✓Medical ID |
| All your labs in one trend | ✓CCDA + manual | ~Their system only | ~Connected only |
| You keep it — nothing gets deactivated | ✓Backup + transfer | ✗Can lose access | ~Tied to Apple ID |
| Additional reports and graphs | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
PHR works hardest for people who:
If you see a single doctor at a single health system, don't travel, only manage your own care, and don't have ongoing health concerns to track, you may not need a personal health record at all. That's a fine answer — your provider's portal probably covers what you need.