Practical guides

Family Health Guides

Step-by-step guides to help you organize and preserve your family’s health records.

Getting Started
Health Books
Family History
Child Records
Timeline
Documents
For Families
Privacy
Exports
AI
Getting Started

Getting started with your Health Book

Learn how to set up your family space, create your first Health Book, and start adding records at your own pace.

5 minRead guide
Health Books

Organizing medical history records

How to record conditions, surgeries, and hospitalizations — and how the chapters work together.

7 minRead guide
Family History

Recording family health history

Capture what your relatives have shared, build a family health tree, and keep it clearly labeled as family-reported.

6 minRead guide
Child Records

Tracking your child’s health from birth

From the birth record to growth milestones and vaccinations — how to build your child’s Health Book.

8 minRead guide
Timeline

Building a lifetime health timeline

Understand how every record joins the timeline and how to use filters to find anything.

5 minRead guide
Documents

Uploading and organizing documents

How to upload lab reports, imaging, prescriptions, and historical records — and keep them organized.

6 minRead guide
For Families

Setting up family roles and permissions

Choose the right role for each family member — Owner, Adult Member, Caregiver, or Viewer.

4 minRead guide
Privacy

Understanding privacy and security

How your records are protected, what controls you have, and what we do — and don’t — claim.

7 minRead guide
Exports

Exporting and printing your Health Book

Generate a full PDF, a quick summary, or export your data — and never feel locked in.

5 minRead guide
AI

Using the AI Health Book Assistant

How AI helps organize and summarize your records — and the guardrails that keep it in its lane.

6 minRead guide
Documents

Preserving historical health records

How to scan and upload decades-old paper records before they’re lost.

5 minRead guide
Health Books

Sharing records with a new doctor

Generate a quick summary PDF to bring to a first appointment with a new provider.

4 minRead guide

Ready to put these guides to work?

FamilyHealthBook helps individuals and families organize and preserve health information. It does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment and is not a substitute for professional medical advice.