FollowMyHealth®

Review by eFreeware

FollowMyHealth is a medical app from Veradigm LLC that brings a Universal Health Record to a phone or tablet. It is free to install, carries no ads and offers no in-app purchases, which for a health tool is the arrangement most people would hope for. The app has been available since August 2012 and sits at a 4.7 average across a large body of ratings.

The main reason to consider it is simple: if your hospital or clinic already runs on FollowMyHealth, this app is how you reach that record without sitting at a computer. Results, renewals, messages and appointments are all part of the app, and the developer describes access as available around the clock.

Results and renewals without the phone tag

The piece the developer leads with is test and lab results. Rather than waiting for a call or a letter, you can check your results in the app. For anyone who has spent a week wondering about bloodwork, that alone justifies keeping the app installed.

Prescription renewals work along the same lines. You send a request from the app instead of ringing the practice during office hours. It is a small thing that removes a recurring chore from the working day.

Secure messaging with physicians rounds out the clinical side. Questions that would otherwise become a phone call or a postponed appointment can be handled through the app, which tends to suit people who remember their symptoms at odd hours and forget them by the time someone answers.

Appointments and the family side of the record

Scheduling sits alongside the clinical features. Scheduling is handled through the app, which matters most when you are trying to fit a visit around work or childcare.

The other half of the pitch is family coverage. The developer presents the record as something you manage for yourself and your relatives, so a parent keeping track of a child's visits, or an adult helping an older relative, can do it from the same place. That is the scenario where a mobile record earns its keep, because the person doing the organizing is rarely the person being treated.

The app is rated for Everyone, and the update history is unremarkable: the most recent release notes mention improvements and bug fixes rather than new features.

What the app asks of you

There is a condition attached to all of this. FollowMyHealth is a portal app, so it is useful when your provider participates in the service and your record is already there. Without that connection, the app has little to offer you.

On cost, the picture is straightforward: the app is free, shows no ads and sells nothing inside. Whatever your provider charges for visits or messages is a separate matter between you and them.

The practical advice is to sort out your account before you need it. Confirm with your clinic that they use FollowMyHealth and get your login working. Doing that on a calm afternoon is far easier than doing it from a waiting room.

A sensible home for an existing health record

FollowMyHealth is worth installing if your provider already uses it and you want results, renewals, messages and appointments in one place, for yourself and for relatives you help manage. It is free, it does not interrupt you with advertising, and the feature set maps closely to the errands a health portal exists to remove.

If your clinic runs on something else, this app is not for you, and that is the whole of the caveat. For everyone already inside the FollowMyHealth system, it is a straightforward addition to the phone.

What's new in version 2026.10.07

Thanks for using FollowMyHealth! This update includes further improvements and bug fixes.