Patient-owned EHR for African care settings
MVP build

Yanga.Health

Patient-owned medical records for paper-first care settings.

Patients scan hospital books, prescriptions, lab reports, and discharge notes with a phone camera. Yanga.Health structures the record, keeps the source visible, and lets the patient share it with a short code.

Patient record loop

Capture. Structure. Review. Share.

Phone capture

Clinic book

Extracted

Medication, lab, diagnosis

Offline queue, source image, confidence score

Provider view

Patient-controlled chart

Read-only

Medication

Metformin 500 mg BID

Lab result

HbA1c 7.8% high

Source

Lab report page visible

Trust state

AI extracted54%
Patient reviewed76%
Provider verified34%

Source

Review

Share

Record owner

Patient

The chart starts in the patient's account, not inside a hospital system.

First workflow

Capture

Paper books, lab reports, prescriptions, and discharge notes enter by phone camera.

Trust model

Source linked

Each extracted field keeps the original page, confidence state, and review status.

Provider access

Short code

Clinicians read the shared record in a browser without a local IT integration.

Record loop

From paper to patient-controlled access

The record begins with the patient, not the hospital system. Paper documents become structured data, then the patient decides when a clinician can read them.

Editorial workflow artwork showing paper records becoming a structured patient-controlled chart and share-code access

How it works

Built around the patient record

The current architecture already includes patient authentication, private document storage, an offline upload queue, AI extraction, structured clinical tables, audit logs, share codes, emergency profiles, and provider verification. The MVP stays lean while preserving the path to clinic workflows, public health reporting with consent, and future interoperability.

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Step 1

Patient scans

A patient or clinic assistant photographs lab results, prescriptions, immunization cards, discharge notes, and hospital book pages with an Android phone.

02

Step 2

AI structures the record

A vision model extracts medications, labs, diagnoses, allergies, visits, and summaries. Every field keeps its source page and confidence score.

03

Step 3

Patient reviews

The patient reviews the record, corrects errors, and keeps an emergency profile for blood type, allergies, chronic conditions, medications, and contact information.

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Step 4

Provider reads

At the visit, the patient generates a short, time-limited code. The clinician reads the record on any phone or computer, without hospital IT integration.

Trust layer

Clinical trust layer

Yanga.Health does not ask clinicians to trust a black box. The provider view keeps source images visible, labels AI-only fields, flags low-confidence extractions, and separates patient-reviewed data from provider-verified data.

See it in the demo

Original image

Every extracted field keeps a link back to the captured source page.

Confidence score

Low-confidence extractions are flagged before they influence care.

Human attestation

Patients review entries. Providers can mark a snapshot as verified.

Provider view

A. Example

Medication

Metformin 500 mg BID

Lab result

HbA1c 7.8% high

Trust

Source visible

Source-first viewer

A clinician can see what the model saw.

The provider view keeps source images visible, labels AI-only fields, flags low-confidence extractions, and separates patient-reviewed data from provider-verified data.

Clinical document operations

Paper in. Verified record out.

Yanga.Health treats every scan as part of a traceable clinical workflow. Each document moves from capture to extraction, patient review, provider access, and audit history without requiring a hospital integration.

01

Capture

Photograph paper records on Android, even before the network is reliable.

02

Extract

Convert prescriptions, labs, allergies, diagnoses, and notes into structured fields.

03

Verify

Show source images, confidence levels, patient review, and provider verification.

04

Deliver

Open a read-only provider view with a short code, then record the access event.

Provenance

Every clinical field links back to the page it came from.

Auditability

Share redemption and verification events are visible to the patient.

Clinical caution

Low-confidence AI fields remain visible until a human reviews them.

Why it matters

"Many African patients already carry the most important medical record in a paper book, and most clinicians already carry a phone. The product should give patients control first."

Dr. Mona, founding advisor

Paper records

many patients carry their health history in hospital books, prescriptions, and lab reports

Paper to structured

AI converts photos of lab reports, prescriptions, and discharge notes into searchable clinical fields

No IT required

Works through phone cameras and short share codes, without hospital system integration

Get the app

Patients use the Yanga.Health mobile app

Available on Android. Patients capture paper records with the phone camera, review AI extractions, manage an emergency profile, and generate share codes for providers.

Get it on

Google Play

Coming soon

App Store

Providers use the web viewer, with no app download required.

01

Capture any paper record

Lab results, prescriptions, discharge notes, immunization cards

02

AI extracts the structure

Medications, diagnoses, labs, allergies, with source links and confidence scores

03

Patient reviews and corrects

Inline editing keeps the patient in control of their data

04

Share with a 6-character code

Time-limited, single-use codes. The patient decides who sees what.

Try it now

See a demo record

Open a fictional record to see the provider experience, including emergency profile, medications, diagnoses, lab flags, provenance, and trust badges. No real patient data is used.

Provider access

For providers

If a patient gives you a Yanga.Health code, enter it below to view the record they chose to share. The viewer is read-only and shows the source documents behind extracted fields.

Read-only

No edits, no storage on your end

Source-linked

See the original scanned page

Time-limited

Codes expire after use

Codes are single-use and expire after a short window. If the code is already used or expired, ask the patient to generate a new one.

Enter the patient's 6-character code

Demo code: DEMO01

Founder story

The idea Dr. Mona did not want to lose

Read the full story

The founder story came from Dr. Mona's insistence that the first customer is the patient, not the hospital. His point was direct: many African patients already carry the most important medical record in a paper book, and most clinicians already carry a phone. The product should give patients control first, then let hospitals and doctors follow the record when the patient chooses to share it.

Patients should own their records and be willing to share them with whom they like.

Architecture

A serious EHR foundation, not a scanning toy

Pilot status

The current architecture already includes patient authentication, private document storage, an offline upload queue, AI extraction, structured clinical tables, audit logs, share codes, emergency profiles, and provider verification. The MVP stays lean while preserving the path to clinic workflows, public health reporting with consent, and future interoperability.

The pilot path starts with patient capture, clinician trust, and provider viewing across Cameroon. The product is built to expand from a small cohort to multi-clinic deployment without replacing existing hospital systems on day one.

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Yanga.Health: Patient-owned medical records