One app for everyone you care for

Press record in the waiting room. Afterwards there is a written summary of what the doctor actually said — the dose that changed, the thing to watch for, the date of the next one — and everybody reads the same account instead of three different memories of it.

One tap from the top of anyone’s page: allergies and what they do, conditions, blood type, the medicines they are on, who to ring. The questions you get asked at the worst possible moment, answered before you are asked them.

Send a doctor, a sitter or a school a read-only page holding only the sections you chose. No account, no app. Give it an expiry, see when it was opened, and switch it off the moment it has done its job.

Photograph the discharge letter or the row of pill boxes on the counter. It reads the medicines, the doses and the doctors off the picture and fills the page in, and you correct what it got wrong rather than typing it all.

What a tablet is for, what it does not go with, and what to watch for — written the way you would explain it to your mother, not the way the leaflet says it.

A weekly checklist to print or send: every medicine at its time, a circle for each day it is due, and the doses already ticked in the app filled in with who gave them. Check it against the labels, sign it, and whoever is on that day has it in front of them.

Each tick says who gave it and when, on every phone. The last fourteen days, dose by dose, with any that were missed in orange — and when each medicine was started or stopped, for the doctor who asks.

The morning tablet, the two o’clock appointment, the worming tablet that is due. On every phone that helps, so it is not one person remembering for everyone.