Vision
Your health data should not be trapped in institutional silos. It should belong to you – and move with you – seamlessly and securely.
Plotline is an upcoming personal electronic health record. It will be an open-source app, built on international clinical data standards.
To prove the value of a truly patient-owned, standards-driven health record, Plotline must solve the interoperability challenge across three clinical scenarios.
Planned Care
Your record arrives before you do.
The Current Reality
Your health record isn’t really yours. It lives in the systems that created it, so booked appointments often begin from scratch – repeating your history, refilling the same forms, even hand-carrying letters and scans between providers.
The Plotline Vision
When you book an appointment – with any clinician, at any clinic – the relevant parts of your health record travel with it. Your clinician can read your conditions, medications, and recent results before you walk through the door.
The visit is focused on what you’re actually there for.
Unplanned Care
Your record speaks when you can’t.
The Current Reality
The moments that matter most are the moments you have least time. A collapse on the street, an allergic reaction in a restaurant – and the clinician best placed to help knows almost nothing about you.
The Plotline Vision
A QR code – shown on your phone, or accessible from the lock screen when you can’t unlock it – opens a scoped view of your record: conditions, active medications, allergies, recent relevant history.
Whoever is helping you has what they need.
Cross-Border Care
Your record goes where you go.
The Current Reality
Cross a border, and your medical history rarely follows. A tourist needing urgent care, a student abroad, a family relocating for work – each arrives with no record a local clinician can read. The EU has begun partial exchange; elsewhere, nothing comparable.
The Plotline Vision
A health record should belong to a person, not a country. When you arrive somewhere new – for a holiday, a semester, or a permanent move – your record comes with you. Language adapts; history stays intact.
Your new clinician inherits what your last one knew.
In every case, your clinician isn’t only reading your record – they’re adding to it.
Each visit, each prescription, each result writes back to your personal record, so you always carry your up-to-date story.
