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Health Tracking App for Expats in Europe

How Healthbase helps expats living in Europe manage health records from multiple countries, languages, and healthcare systems.

Living abroad means navigating a new healthcare system. Living in multiple countries means navigating several. For expats in Europe, this creates a unique health data challenge: records scattered across countries, written in languages you may not fully understand, in systems that don't communicate with each other.

Healthbase helps expats maintain a coherent health picture across borders.

The Expat Health Challenge

Expats face compounded versions of common health data problems.

Records in Multiple Countries

If you've lived in three European countries, you probably have health records in all three. Your vaccination history might be in the country where you grew up. Your chronic condition is managed where you currently live. You had that surgery in the country you lived in before this one.

No single healthcare system sees your complete picture. Each sees only what happened within their borders.

Multiple Languages

Your German lab reports, French specialist notes, and Spanish hospital records are all yours — but you might not fully understand all of them. Medical terminology is hard enough in your native language. In a second or third language, it's often impenetrable.

And when you see a new doctor who speaks a different language than your previous records, sharing your history becomes complicated.

Different Systems and Formats

Every country organizes health records differently. What's easily accessible in one country's patient portal might require a formal records request in another. Digital records in one place might be paper files in another.

Continuity Problems

When you move to a new country, your health essentially resets. Your new doctors don't know your history. Previous test results, unless you brought copies, are inaccessible. You're starting from scratch, even if you've been managing a condition for years.

What Healthbase Does

Consolidate Records From Any Country

Upload documents from anywhere you've received healthcare. Healthbase extracts and organizes health information regardless of origin.

German lab reports, Italian hospital discharge notes, Dutch vaccination records — everything in one place, structured and searchable.

Handle Any Language

Our vision AI processes documents in all major European languages. You don't need to translate your records before uploading. The AI extracts health information regardless of the source language.

When you look at your consolidated health record, everything is accessible and understandable, even if the source documents were in languages you don't read fluently.

Build a Complete History

Instead of fragmented records across multiple countries, you build a complete health timeline that spans your entire European journey.

See how biomarkers have changed over the years you've spent in different countries. Reference your complete vaccination history. Know your full medication history, not just what your current doctor has prescribed.

Share With Any Provider

When you see a new doctor in a new country, you're not starting from scratch. Generate a summary of your relevant health history to share with them.

The doctor gets the context they need. You don't have to reconstruct your history verbally. Important details don't get lost in translation or forgotten.

Relevant for Expat Life

When You Move to a New Country

Use Healthbase to transfer your health context. Before you leave, consolidate records from your current country. When you arrive and register with new doctors, share your health summary.

You're not abandoning your health history at the border. It comes with you.

Managing Ongoing Conditions

If you have a chronic condition, continuity is essential. Different doctors in different countries managing the same condition need access to the same information.

Healthbase maintains that continuity. Your TSH results from Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands all appear in the same timeline. Your diabetes management data spans your entire expatriate journey.

Keeping Up With Preventive Care

Different countries have different screening recommendations. When you move, it's easy to lose track of what screenings you've had and when you're due for the next ones.

With your complete health history in Healthbase, you can see your screening history regardless of which country provided the care.

Dealing With Health Emergencies

If you have a health emergency in a country where you don't speak the language well, having your health history accessible on your phone is invaluable.

Allergies, current medications, chronic conditions, recent procedures — all accessible and shareable, even in a crisis.

Your Health Data, Your Control

As an expat, you may be subject to various jurisdictions and healthcare systems. But your health data should remain under your control.

Healthbase stores all data in Germany, within EU jurisdiction, regardless of which countries your records came from. You maintain control of your complete health picture, independent of any single country's healthcare system.

Full export — Download your complete data in portable formats anytime.

Take it with you — Your health data moves with you, country to country, independent of any healthcare system.

Share on your terms — Decide what to share with which providers, regardless of jurisdiction.

Getting Started

  1. Gather records from all countries where you've received care
  2. Upload everything — any format, any language
  3. Build your complete picture — unified across countries and years
  4. Use your data — share with new providers, track trends, maintain continuity

Expat life doesn't have to mean fragmented health records and perpetual fresh starts. With Healthbase, your health history follows you wherever you go.

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