Smartphones and tablets have made many tedious aspects of life easier, from simple push alerts and reminders to filing taxes on-the-go.
Another space that is on the way to being revolutionized for the better is personal healthcare management. Don’t throw out all of your copies of immunizations and medical bills yet, but these five mobile apps will certainly help cut down on the amount of paper you have to keep around while keeping this information readily (and securely) available to you from anywhere.
Cake Health: The simplest way to describe this one is that it is like Mint for healthcare. If you want to keep going, it could also be said that this app makes healthcare management seem like a piece of cake. (I’ll stop now.) Essentially, you can plug in your login information for your healthcare provider, and all of that information should be integrated seamlessly on your Cake Health profile, making it much, much easier to understand your medical bills (and catching errors), knowing the costs of your plan, and tracking the plan in real-time. Cake Health also keeps track of spending habits and even displays some unbeknownst benefits from time to time.
The app is free and available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch running iOS 4.0 and higher.
MyMedical: This one has been around for awhile, but it’s definitely a good starting point for someone who wants to compile as many pieces of personal medical information into one spot. The trouble here is that you usually have to input all of the data yourself using the web portal, which then emails you a secure link that you must access on the mobile device of your choice for the information to be ported into the app. However, you can input everything related to medical, dental, and optometry visits and more, ranging from glucose levels to programming reminders for when prescriptions are due to expire.
Basically, you can keep track of your own info and anyone in your family who shares that email link with you.
The iPhone/iPod touch version is $1.99, while the iPad version, which tries its best to replicate the analog manila folder look, costs $2.99.
(There’s also a comparable app with nearly the same name on Android, but they’re quite different in terms of the UI and features available.)
