MedRe

When something goes wrong, your health records are nowhere to be found.

Health record management has barely changed in decades. Most records still live on paper, locked in filing cabinets at whichever clinic you last visited. Patients moving to a new city, switching providers, or ending up in an emergency room all face the same problem: critical information that should travel with them simply doesn't.

The gaps aren't edge cases. They're the default experience.

Competitive research across Apple Health, Kardia, and WellDoc showed each was strong in a narrow vertical but none solved the core access problem for everyday patients. User interviews made the gaps concrete:

• Patients regularly arrive at new providers with no records and no way to get them quickly
• Emergency responders often operate without medical history, allergies, or current medications
• Paper records can't be backed up, can't be shared instantly, and are easily lost
• The few digital options were either clinic-specific or too technical for regular use

Mind map used to plan feature scope and app structure

Put the record in the patient's pocket, not the clinic's filing room.

The opportunity was to flip ownership entirely. Instead of records sitting somewhere patients can't access, MedRe puts patients in control of their own health data, shareable with any provider in seconds and accessible to emergency responders when it matters most.

HIPAA compliance wasn't just a legal requirement. It was a trust signal. For an app handling sensitive health data, security had to be visible, not just assumed.

A secure health record that travels with you and shares in seconds.

I designed MedRe as a HIPAA-compliant iOS app with three core jobs: store your complete health records securely, share them with any provider instantly, and surface critical information to emergency responders without requiring the patient to hand over their phone.

The visual language was deliberately calm and trustworthy. Purple was chosen over the clinical blues common in healthcare apps because it reads as compassionate rather than institutional. The whole interface was built to reduce cognitive load for people who are already stressed when they need it most.

Low-fidelity wireframes covering core user flows

High-fidelity UI screens across key flows

Shipped as a HIPAA-compliant iOS app, with the hard flows validated before launch.

Beta testing through TestFlight using focus groups, shadowing, and task-based testing confirmed the core experience held up. Testing also surfaced friction in the record-sharing and emergency access flows specifically, which I iterated on before shipping.

Beta testing via TestFlight

The project taught me that the highest-stakes flows in a product, the ones users reach in an emergency or a moment of stress, deserve the most attention and the most testing. Getting those right is what separates a product that looks good from one that actually works when it counts.