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Health Tracking: the bedside chart

A blood-glucose grid like the paper log, blood pressure and other vitals, pee and bowel logs, weight, sleep, symptoms and events, and meals — with Copy, Print and Analyze.

7 min readUpdated For: family, clinician

Health Tracking is the family's bedside chart, built for the home-health handoff. The blood-glucose grid is a digital twin of the paper testing log (before and two hours after each meal, bedtime, other, comments) and prints in the layout agencies expect. Then blood pressure; temperature, respirations, oxygen and pain; a pee log and a bowel movement log with last-one timers; weight; sleep; symptoms and events (dizzy spells, mood, falls, nausea, sleepiness); and Meals, which picks from what is in the kitchen and counts it down as meals are eaten.

The bowel movement log keeps a bowel watch: when no bowel movement has been logged for longer than the threshold the family set under Bowel plan (48 hours to start), an amber block says so on the card, on the Dashboard and on the professional's shift screen, with Log one now and Ask the care team, and the family and the care team are told once a day until one is logged. See The bowel watch.

Copy and Print reproduce the sheet; Analyze describes what was logged — counts, averages, where the numbers cluster — in the care team's standard layout. The chart records and displays; it never judges a value or recommends treatment. Green and red only say inside or outside the target the family typed in.

The very same chart is on the care team's dashboard as the Health Tracking tab, laid out for a phone: a row of bubbles (Quick log, every log, Medications) and one page per log — see Health Tracking on your dashboard. Every reading anyone logs carries who logged it, for example Maria (Home health).

Symptoms and events offers sixteen quick chips: Dizzy spell, Mood / behavior, Fall, Nausea, Very sleepy, Pain, Leg pain, Lethargic, Crying, Angry, Aggressive, Woke up crying, Can't sleep, Swelling, Blood in stool and Other. Leg pain asks which leg (Right, Left or Both) and Pain may say where; an entry can carry up to three photos or short videos (see The symptom log: where it hurts, photos and videos). Tap Swelling and small chips ask where — legs, feet, ankles, hands, arms, face, abdomen or other (other opens the note); the entry reads Swelling · legs, feet everywhere it prints. Blood in stool, like a fall, nausea or lethargy, goes to the care team as a flagged alert at once. More symptoms opens a searchable list grouped by General, Head and mood, Stomach and bowel, Bladder and urine, Breathing and heart, Skin and swelling, Pain, Sleep and energy, Falls and safety, Help button and Other, with this family's recently used kinds first; a kind chosen there logs exactly like a chip, and several at once still works. The list itself is kept by the founder. UTI tests have their own tab beside Log symptoms (see The symptom log: where it hurts, photos and videos).

Personal care is its own tab, next to Sleep: Shower, Bath or bed bath, Wash-up, Hair washed, Teeth / mouth care, Dressed, Skin check and Moving around. Pick what was done, then how the person moved — steady, needed help, weak, legs gave out, nearly fell or refused — add a note (lethargic today, legs gave out in the shower), set the time and Log it. The entry reads Shower · legs gave out in the log, on the feed and in the reports. Legs gave out and nearly fell go to the care team at once, like a fall; weak and refused show in the log and the reports but do not page anyone. The Symptoms & alerts report gains a Personal care section — counts per kind for the range, a small week grid with the letter for how they moved, and the mobility concerns with date, time, note and who — and the weekly home summary lists those concerns among the events. The care team's Quick log has the same kinds under Personal care.

Medications sits at the end of the row of tabs. On the family's Health Tracking it opens Prescriptions; on the care team's dashboard it opens the dashboard's own Medications tab.

Meals: Add a photo of the plate opens the phone's camera right under When was it eaten?, and After the meal adds a second photo of what was left, so the team sees how much was eaten. Both save with the meal and show on it in the list; tap to see them full size. Share meal photos with the care team, at the top of the Meals tab, decides whether the day's meal photos go into the IDC Team feed. See Photos of the plate on every meal. Who ate? sits above the form: the patient's name logs the patient's meal, and A professional — only takes it off the kitchen counts food a professional ate without logging a meal for the patient (see What professionals used).

The meal log lists each day in eight columns, in day order: Day, Before breakfast, Breakfast, Morning snack, Lunch, Afternoon snack, Dinner, Evening snack. A snack is still logged with the one Log a snack button; which snack column it lands in follows the time it was eaten against that day's logged breakfast, lunch and dinner, on the patient's clock: earlier than breakfast is Before breakfast, between breakfast and lunch is a Morning snack, between lunch and dinner an Afternoon snack, after dinner an Evening snack. A snack at exactly a meal's time counts as after it; a day with a meal missing uses 9:30 am, 1:30 pm and 7:00 pm for that meal; a snack after midnight but before 3:00 am is the evening snack of the day before. The confirmation says where it went, for example Logged as a morning snack. Edit on a snack still changes its day and time (and which meal it was); the column follows. On a phone each day is one card with the same eight rows, an empty slot showing a dash. Every day carries a Day total line: the calories, carbs, sugar and protein summed from the entries that carry numbers, with from 3 of 5 entries when some have none. An entry reads as one block: the slot and time, the items as one line, the numbers in one small line, and Photo (or the photo itself).

The X on a meal removes it and puts back what it took off the kitchen: the same items, in the same servings or whole items, onto the same rows, once. A row that was restocked or used since gets the amount added to what is there now; a row deleted since goes back onto the row of the same name, or is added again when there is none. A short note says what went back, for example Removed. Ritz Crackers × 1 serving went back to the kitchen. Meals logged before this was added (September 27, 2026) are not linked to what they took, so nothing goes back on its own for them — use + in Menu & Kitchen. Eating Out takes nothing from the kitchen, and the kitchen's own minus has no meal entry to remove.

What it looks like

Screens at phone width, with sample names — no real person’s information.

Health Tracking: the care-alert switch and the tabs — blood glucose, vitals, pee log, bowel movement log, weight, sleep, personal care, symptoms and events, meals, water and medications.
Health Tracking: the care-alert switch and the tabs — blood glucose, vitals, pee log, bowel movement log, weight, sleep, personal care, symptoms and events, meals, water and medications.
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