How expat families in the USA manage medical records across insurers, hospital networks, and state lines. Build a portable health history that survives the next move.
The United States has no national patient record system — every hospital network runs its own electronic health record. Patient portals like MyChart are tied to the insurer and do not travel when you switch insurance or move states. PRIVAWELL gives expat families a portable vault that sits outside of any US insurer or hospital network, carrying your complete health history to every new provider.
The United States has one of the most fragmented medical record systems in the world. Records live inside individual insurer portals — MyChart, Athenahealth, Kaiser, Cigna — inside hospital networks, and across state lines. For expat families relocating into, or out of, the US, this fragmentation is the single biggest source of lost continuity of care.
There is no national patient record system in the United States. Every hospital network — Mount Sinai in New York, Mass General in Boston, Stanford in California, Cleveland Clinic in Ohio — runs its own electronic health record. When a family moves between insurers, the new provider often has zero visibility into prior care. Even within the same city, switching from a Kaiser primary care physician to a private internist can mean restarting your medical history from a blank intake form.
PRIVAWELL gives families in the US a private, portable vault that exists outside of any insurer or hospital network. Upload lab results, imaging reports, vaccination records, specialist letters, and prior medications — from any country, any provider. Generate a doctor-ready clinical summary your new US physician can read in two minutes during a standard 15-minute visit. When you switch insurers, change states, or relocate internationally, your full medical history travels with you.
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Create Your Family VaultPRIVAWELL is a private family health record vault that helps internationally mobile families organise, store, and share medical records across countries. It is not a wellness tracker or fitness app.