Your Personal Health Record, All in One Place

SanoVault is a personal health record app for people and families in India. It helps you keep medical documents from different doctors, hospitals and labs together, including older files that may never appear in one hospital system.

What is a personal health record?

A personal health record (PHR) is a health history you maintain yourself. It can include laboratory reports, prescriptions, imaging reports, discharge summaries, vaccination notes and a current medicine list.

The point is not to replace your doctor. It is to have a usable copy of information that otherwise sits in several places, so you can find it when a clinic asks for last year's reports.

Why health records become fragmented

Care in India often involves more than one hospital, a neighbourhood clinic, a diagnostic laboratory, and an imaging centre. Reports arrive as printouts, PDFs, WhatsApp images and email attachments. Hospital apps and portals usually show only what that institution holds.

Older paper files may never have been scanned. A new specialist then has to reconstruct history from whatever you can find that week. That is a records problem, not a medical-advice problem.

A practical walkthrough of paper, PDFs and naming is in the guide to organising medical records.

Hospital records vs a record you control

A hospital record belongs to that hospital's system. It is useful, and it may be incomplete for your whole life: a different city, a different lab, a paper prescription from years ago, or a scan done elsewhere will often not be there.

A patient-controlled health record is the set of documents you choose to keep. You decide what goes in. SanoVault is that kind of folder: you upload and file records; it does not pull files from hospital portals on its own.

Why a longitudinal history is useful

Doctors often ask what was done before: previous labs, imaging, surgeries, allergies, and medicines. Having those documents in date order, for one person, saves time at the appointment. It also helps when you want a second opinion and need to show the same file set twice.

SanoVault does not interpret those records as a diagnosis. Summaries and extracted text are for your filing, not a substitute for a clinician.

Types of records you can keep

In SanoVault you can upload PDFs, photos and office files, and scan paper with your phone. Records can be filed as lab reports, prescriptions, consultation notes, imaging reports, discharge summaries, vaccination records, vitals, identity documents, or other.

Beside the documents, you can keep a medicine list, log blood pressure, record vaccinations, and keep visit notes. After linking a WhatsApp number, you can forward a report to SanoVault and choose who it belongs to.

Family health records

The same folder can hold more than one person — you, children, or parents you are helping. Household members you invite can see the people and records in that folder. That is family health records in one household folder, with access only for people you add.

Using old medical records

Old reports still matter: a surgery from a decade ago, a childhood vaccination card, or a lab trend that started years back. Photograph or scan the page, upload the PDF, and file it against the right person with a date if you know it.

You do not need a perfect archive on day one. Start with the documents you already hunt for before appointments.

Using records at a doctor visit

Before a visit, open that person's timeline and pick the recent labs, relevant imaging, and current medicines. SanoVault can print a medicine list and a one-page summary of labs, blood pressure and medicines to take along. If a clinician needs one file, you can send a time-limited link for that document.

How SanoVault relates to ABHA

ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account) is a health ID issued under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), the Government of India's digital health programme. You can create and manage an ABHA number on the official ABHA portal.

SanoVault is not an ABHA application. It does not currently connect to ABDM to fetch or send health records. You can optionally store an ABHA number on a person's profile for your own reference. Many older reports, private clinic notes, and files sitting on a phone will still need to be kept by you, whether or not they ever appear in an ABHA-linked view.

Privacy and who can see your folder

Uploaded files are kept in private storage. They are shown to people in your folder, unless you create a share link for a specific document. Share links can expire and can be revoked. There is no public health profile.

SanoVault is in beta and is not certified under HIPAA, GDPR, or India's DPDP Act. Read how records are handled before you decide what to store.

How SanoVault works

1. Create a folder and add the people whose records you are keeping.
2. Upload or scan reports, and keep a medicine list up to date.
3. Find a person's history when you need it, print a short clinic set, or share one document for a limited time.

The product is free during the beta. AI extraction and summaries may become paid later. See pricing.