How We Read Your Reports

The problem

Your Health History Is Stuck in PDFs

Right now, your medical history probably lives in a WhatsApp thread. A lab sends you a PDF. You forward it to yourself, or to a family member, so it doesn't get lost in the chat. Six months later, another PDF joins it — maybe password-protected with the last four digits of the phone number you registered at the clinic.

Ask yourself: how has your Vitamin D changed over the last three years? For almost everyone in India today, answering that means finding three or four PDFs, opening each one, hunting for the right row, and doing the comparison in your head — or not doing it at all. This isn't a filing problem. It's a structure problem.

The mechanism

What MedStory Does With Each Report You Upload

Any report, from any lab or hospital

You don't need your provider to use any particular digital system for MedStory to read your report. If a lab or hospital can hand you a PDF, scan, or photo, you can upload it — regardless of how (or whether) they manage records on their own end. Images (scans, phone photos) can be up to 5MB; PDF documents up to 50MB.

From a flat document to structured data

MedStory reads a report the way a careful person would: identifies the report type, finds the individual test names and values, pulls out reference ranges and units. A single number on a page becomes a data point on a timeline — alongside the notes and impressions that don't reduce to one number.

The trust anchor

You review before it's final

Extracting data from a real-world document — a scan with glare, a crease, a stamp over a value — isn't something any system should claim to get right without a check. You see exactly what MedStory extracted, laid next to the original, before it's added to your record. If something looks off, you correct it right there. Your record only reflects what you've confirmed.

Extracted from reportoriginal ↗
Vitamin D32 ng/mL
HbA1c5.4 %
WBC count7.2 ×10³/µL
Before & after

What Changes

Before

Separate files, separate places

Your reports exist as separate files in separate places. Each one is a snapshot. None of them talk to each other.

Lab — JanPDF, WhatsApp
Scan — JunPhoto, gallery
Lab — NovPDF, email
After

One continuous record

Every report you upload adds to a single, continuous record. The same test, tracked across every report you've ever added, shows up as one line you can look at and understand immediately.

Vitamin D — Jan28 ng/mL
Vitamin D — Jun30 ng/mL
Vitamin D — Nov32 ng/mL
Honest accuracy framing

How Accurate Is It, Really?

It's fair to be cautious about AI reading your medical data. MedStory's extraction is built to read documents the way they're actually laid out — accounting for the fact that Indian lab reports vary widely in format and print quality, and phone photos are rarely perfectly lit or straight.

That said, no automated reading of a document — by a machine or a person — is guaranteed to be flawless every time, and we won't tell you otherwise. That's exactly why the review step exists: nothing enters your permanent record without you having had the chance to confirm it's right.

Who can see this

Who Can See Your Reports

Your reports and the data extracted from them belong to you. MedStory doesn't sell or share your medical data.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

No. Upload any document you already have — MedStory reads it directly, whatever system (or no system) your provider uses.