Health metrics & readings

What this is for: tracking numbers about a patient over time — weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, anything your clinic measures — and seeing the trend instead of flipping through old notes.

One-time setup (admins)

Before staff can record readings, an admin defines what your clinic measures, under Practice → Patient Metrics:

1. Create your units (kg, mmHg, mmol/L…).
2. Create your metrics — each metric has a name and its unit, e.g. "Weight (kg)", "Systolic BP (mmHg)". A metric can have multiple components (e.g. blood pressure = systolic + diastolic).

Do this once; every patient can then be tracked against these metrics.

Recording a reading

1. Open the patient's record → Metrics section.
2. Pick the metric (e.g. Weight).
3. Enter the value and the date of the measurement.
4. Save. The reading joins the patient's history instantly.

Reading the graphs

Each metric shows a trend graph of all readings. Two per-patient settings make the graph genuinely useful:

• Border levels — a healthy range for this patient (say, weight 70–80 kg). Readings outside the range stand out on the graph, so a drift in the wrong direction is visible at a glance.
• Measurement interval — how often a reading is expected (e.g. monthly). Helps you notice when a patient is overdue for a check.

Common questions

Entered a wrong value? Open the reading and correct it — the graph updates.

Can the doctor see these? Yes — doctors see metrics for their patients in their portal.

Different patients need different target ranges. Exactly why border levels are set per patient, not per metric.