About
Patients should own their record.
Health records still move by fax. Specialists re-order bloodwork a colleague ran two months ago because nobody could find the result. Patients are told to call the front desk for a copy. The system works for the institutions in it — and against the person it’s supposed to serve.
open-chart is the other side of that. Your records, in one place you control: encrypted in your browser, turned into trends across years, read by an AI that connects the patterns, and ready for a chat that helps you prepare for your next visit. See how it works →
The principles we build by
Every feature is judged against three questions, in order. They’re the reason some obvious-looking features don’t exist here.
Do you stay in control?
If a change would let us see something we previously couldn't, we look for another way. When we can't find one — as with AI extraction — we document the trade-off in plain English and show it to you.
Is it worth the data it touches?
A feature that reads more of your data has to earn it with obvious value. Trends touch the structured findings we already extract — they ship. Anything that wanted to scan your raw documents server-side would need an extraordinary reason. We haven't found one.
Will we believe this in a year?
We don't ship anything we'd be embarrassed to describe truthfully to a privacy researcher. If a feature would need a careful PR explanation, that's a sign not to build it.
What open-chart is not
- Not a substitute for clinical care. The trends and extracted findings are tools for talking with your doctor — not a replacement for one, and never medical advice.
- Not a HIPAA covered entity on its own. If a provider wants to send records into open-chart on your behalf, that’s a separate arrangement requiring a Business Associate Agreement. Today we serve the patient directly.
- Not a place to dump records you never look at. The value comes from engaging with what it surfaces.
The deal
A health record is a trust relationship. Here’s our half of it — and the part we need from you.
What you can expect from us
- A public security page detailed enough for an engineer to evaluate our architecture.
- One-click download of any record you uploaded, plus a FHIR-shaped read API for your structured data on Plus. A full one-archive export is on the near-term roadmap.
- A real activity log in the app — every sign-in, upload, extraction, review, and share, with timestamps and hashed-IP indicators.
- A feedback board where you can suggest and vote on what we build next. We read every entry.
- Honest changelog notes whenever we change the security posture or how we handle data.
What we ask of you
- Save your recovery code. Because we can't see your password, we can't recover your account if you lose it. The code we show you at signup is your only safety net — print it, store it in a password manager, don't lose it.
- Spot-check the AI. Extraction is helpful but not infallible. Low-confidence findings are flagged for your review — sanity-check unusual values and fix anything that looks off before you rely on it.
- Tell us when something's wrong. The product gets better when we hear about extraction errors, confusing UI, or anything that feels off. We'd much rather hear it than not.
Ready to start?
Create an account, save your recovery code, upload a record. Your first three documents are analyzed free — and you’ll have a real trend chart within minutes.