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.
• KeptWell vs CareZone → CareZone is gone. Rebuild the family's medication list from the records.
• KeptWell vs ianacare → No employer benefit or Medicare GUIDE behind you? The medical records, read and shared, free for any family.
• KeptWell vs Caring Village → Reading and sharing the medical records vs coordinating the day of caregiving.
• KeptWell vs Guava Health → A family's shared, AI-read medical records vs a personal health tracker.
• KeptWell vs Lotsa Helping Hands → The medical side of caring for someone vs organizing meals, rides and visits.
• KeptWell vs MyLifeLine → Family updates next to the medical records vs a cancer update site with a Helping Calendar and forums.
• KeptWell vs ChatGPT Health → A family sharing one parent's records vs an AI health space built for your own records.

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 →

MyChart, Apple Health, and getting records out of a portal

What imports into KeptWell on its own, how to get records out of a portal by hand, and how to share access with family:

• MyChart records import → At a health system that has turned KeptWell on, connect a MyChart account and its labs, medications, diagnoses, and visits come into KeptWell.
• Apple Health sync → From the patient's own iPhone, the KeptWell app syncs home readings like blood pressure, weight, and glucose, plus any clinical records in Apple Health.
• KeptWell as a personal health record → Records from every portal in one place, shared with the family, which no single portal does.
• 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.
• Medication administration record (MAR) → A month grid where whoever gives a dose initials its box, so the next person can see what has been given. Free, nothing saved.
• Medical bill letter → Ask a billing office for an itemized bill, dispute a charge, apply for financial assistance, offer a lower amount or ask for a payment plan. 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.
• How to transfer medical records to a new doctor → Let the new office ask for your records, request your own copy of what the first visit needs, and track each request against the appointment date.
• What happens if you don't pay a medical bill → When an unpaid bill can go to collections, reach a credit report or end up in court, and when a family member doesn't owe it.
• 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 hospice does not do, and who does it instead → Routine hospice care at home averages about three and a half hours of staff visits a week. The four levels of care, what the benefit leaves out, and who fills each gap.
• Why half of hospices have no ratings on Care Compare → KeptWell's analysis of Medicare's August 2026 data: 52% of US hospices have no family ratings, 95% in Los Angeles County, and what to check instead.
• 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. In one study of emergency room samples, 39 percent were contaminated with them. What the counts mean, and when to redo the sample.
• 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.
• What 'hypermetabolic' means on a PET scan → What hypermetabolic, FDG-avid and SUV mean on a PET scan report, and why a bright spot isn't always cancer.
• How long PET scan results take → How long the PET report takes to reach the doctor, why hearing it can take days or weeks longer, and what to ask when the scan is booked.
• How long mammogram results take → Why a screening is read after you leave, the two federal deadlines for your written summary, and what a callback means for the wait.
• What 'consolidation' means on a chest X-ray → What consolidation and airspace disease mean, and why a follow-up X-ray can still show it weeks after someone feels better.
• What 'lung scarring' means on your CT or X-ray → What biapical and bibasilar scarring mean, and how to tell an old scar from fibrosis or asbestos plaques.

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.