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Health Journal

The Health Journal keeps each family member's medical history in one place: visits, vaccines, medications, test results, and growth. Find it under Health, or just tell the assistant what happened and it files it.

What it tracks

A record for every family member: visits, vaccines, medications, test results, growth. One place per person, so when a form asks for the date of the last tetanus shot or a doctor asks what medication a child is on, you have the answer.

Record types

  • Visit: a GP, specialist, dentist, or hospital visit.
  • Immunisation: a vaccine given.
  • Medication: a current or past prescription.
  • Test result: pathology, imaging, or screening results.
  • Measurement: height, weight, head circumference, and vital signs over time.
  • Milestone: developmental milestones for young children.
  • Allergy and Condition: standing facts like allergies, chronic conditions, and blood type.
The Health page showing a family member's records grouped by type alongside the health assistant panel.
The Health page showing a family member's records grouped by type alongside the health assistant panel.

Adding a record

The quickest way is to tell the assistant in plain language:

  • Saw the GP yesterday, prescribed antihistamines for Liam
  • Record Sophie's 4-year-old vaccines from today
  • Log Mia's height as 102cm and weight 16kg

It pulls out the member, the record type, the date, and the details, and saves a structured record. You can also add and edit records directly on the Health page.

The rolling diary

Alongside the structured records, each member has a free-text health diary for the prose that doesn't fit a tidy field, e.g. “rash flared up after the new washing powder, settled in two days”. The assistant keeps it up to date as you mention things.

Vaccine schedules

For children under six, KinLife consults the standard immunisation schedule (and your state's child-health-book schedule) so it can tell you what's due and when, e.g. what vaccines does Mia have coming up?

Who can see it

Health records are family data: visible to the adults in your family and kept strictly private at the database level. KinLife staff can't read them. See Privacy & security.