Vaccinations

A family vaccination record on your phone: every dose, for everyone

How to keep a vaccination record for the whole family on your phone: each dose with its date, for children and adults, scanned from paper booklets, ready to show a doctor, a school or a travel clinic, and included in the international health summary.

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Short answer: note each vaccine dose, with its date, in each family member's profile in a health record app, starting from the paper booklets you already have. In Anpheros Daily the vaccines sit next to the rest of each person's record, you can show them at any visit, share them with a doctor for a period, and they are included in the International Patient Summary that clinics abroad can read.

Vaccination records are the papers families lose most often: a child's booklet, an adult's card from years ago, a travel vaccine noted on a loose sheet. When a school, a new doctor or a travel clinic asks, the answer is usually "I think so". Keeping them digitally, per person, turns that into a list with dates.

What to note for each dose

  • the vaccine (the name on the booklet or the certificate);
  • the date it was given;
  • the dose number, if the booklet shows it;
  • where it was given and a scan of the page, if you have it.

Which vaccines and when is decided by your doctor and your national programme; the app keeps what was given.

How it works in Anpheros Daily

Profiles for family members are part of the Plus plan; your own record is free on Basic.

  1. Open the profile of the family member: yourself, a child, a parent.
  2. Scan the booklet page or the certificate and note each dose with its date.
  3. Repeat for each person; each has their own list.
  4. Add new doses as they are given.

See the family health record page for how profiles work, and our guide on your child's medical records.

Showing and sharing

  • At a visit, open the person's vaccines on your phone or print a report.
  • With a doctor, give access to the record for a period, or a time-limited link to the health summary.
  • Abroad, the vaccines are part of the International Patient Summary, a standard format designed to be read by health systems in other countries.

What the app does not do

Anpheros keeps your vaccination history; it does not tell you which vaccines to get and does not replace official certificates when an authority requires them. Ask your doctor about your vaccination schedule.

Frequently asked questions

Can I keep my whole family's vaccinations in one app?

Yes. Each family member has their own profile with their own list of doses.

Can I scan the paper vaccination booklet?

Yes. Scan the pages once and note each dose with its date; the scan stays attached as a document.

Is the digital record an official certificate?

No. It is your own record, useful to show a doctor or to remember what was given. When an official certificate is required, it comes from the health authority or the doctor who vaccinated.

Can a doctor abroad read my vaccination history?

Often, yes: the International Patient Summary includes vaccinations and is a standard more and more health systems can read. You can also show the list on your phone.

This guide is for information and does not replace medical advice. For decisions about your health, talk to your doctor. In an emergency, call 112.
About the author
Adrian Kereky

Founder of Anpheros. An electronics engineer, he spent six years in autonomous driving, on automotive projects run in partnership with Samsung and NVIDIA, designing the architecture of driver-assistance and AI systems that run on NVIDIA chips with CUDA. He then built Anpheros: the patient-controlled medical record and the HL7 FHIR R4 platform it runs on.

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