Patient care record · For small clinics & home care
Galen.
The quiet record,
made for everyday medicine.
A patient-owned chart. Caregivers ask the patient for access — no admin middlemen. Claude reads your scans and writes the daily summary so you can spend the day on patients, not paperwork.
The problem
The chart lives in three places
and none of them is the truth.
There's the notebook by the bed — vitals, dose times, the things the night nurse actually wrote down. There's the clinic EHR — billing-shaped, discharge summaries, the lab PDF nobody opened. And there's the family group chat — the photo of a rash, “did mum take her tablets,” the question for the doctor next visit.
Galen is the one record where the notebook, the lab scan, and the question all live together — owned by the patient, written into by anyone they trust, summarised by an AI that has read the whole thing.
How it works
Three motions. Done in a minute, not a morning.
Capture
Snap the BP cuff, the lab printout, the handwritten flowsheet. Or just type a note. Claude vision pulls out the structured readings and medications.
Curate
The daily summary writes itself. Vitals are canonicalised across nurses and units — Blood Sugar / GMA / mmol/L all collapse into one line you can chart.
Share
Hand the doctor a navy-header PDF and an Excel of every vital. The patient unlocks access with their code; they revoke it the same way.
Features
Built for the small-clinic reality.
Eight features, all aimed at the same thing: getting the writing done so the caregiver can keep moving. Nothing here is a billing surface or a coding workflow — this is the working record, not the paperwork around it.
Two-key access
Patient code + caregiver identity. Both required, every session.
Vision extraction
Claude reads handwritten and printed charts into structured fields.
Canonical metrics
Synonyms and units collapse so one metric is one row, not five.
Vitals trends
14-day charts with reference bands per metric, drawn in the export.
Medication ledger
Click any medication to see every dose, every change, every nurse.
Daily summary
One paragraph per day, generated from the day's notes and readings.
Clinical exports
Navy-header PDF report and a multi-sheet Excel of vitals and meds.
Passkey-first auth
WebAuthn, TOTP, or PIN — your choice. Step-up before destructive changes.
Coordination
The chart is only half of it.
Care is a team sport. A patient is rarely tended by one person from one agency on one schedule. Galen treats the chart as the working surface for everyone who needs to be in the loop — the on-shift caregiver, the coordinator at the agency, the family member three timezones away.
Who it's for
Three roles, one chart.
For patients & families
Your chart, your code, your control.
- Your record. You hand out access; you take it back.
- Family stays in the loop via email or SMS — pick the channel.
- Approve agencies. Raise urgent concerns for the rounds.
For caregivers
Add a passkey. Check in. Note. Done.
- One-tap check-in with optional GPS verification.
- Photograph the chart — Claude does the typing.
- Handoff notes carry to the next shift automatically.
For agencies
Schedule without holding the chart.
- Coordinators plan across every patient on your roster.
- Email-invite caregivers; request access from new patients.
- Clinical data stays with the patient — you only see the schedule.
Security & privacy
The boring details that make this trustworthy.
AES-256-GCM at rest. TLS-1.3 in transit. Argon2id-hashed credentials with a server-side pepper. Passkey-first authentication, with TOTP and PIN as fallbacks. Step-up re-auth before passkey removal, code rotation, and chart export. Every chart access is audit-logged with IP and intent.
Encryption
AES-256-GCM at rest · TLS-1.3 in transit
Credentials
Argon2id + pepper · WebAuthn · TOTP · PIN
Step-up
Required before destructive account changes
Audit
Every chart access logged with IP & reason
Frequently asked
A few things people ask first.
Is Galen an EHR?
No. EHRs are billing systems with a chart attached. Galen is the chart — the working record a caregiver and a patient actually share. If you need billing codes, ICD-10 dropdowns, and insurance flows, this isn't that.
Who owns the data?
The patient. The chart is unlocked with a code the patient holds, and a caregiver cannot read or write without that code. The patient can rotate the code or revoke a caregiver at any time. Operators can self-host, so the data never leaves the clinic.
What does the AI actually do?
Three things. (1) Reads scans and handwritten flowsheets into structured fields. (2) Writes one-paragraph daily summaries from the notes. (3) Looks at the last 14 days of vitals and flags trends with explicit recommendations. You see every input that fed every output; nothing is opaque.
Can I export everything?
Yes. Every chart exports as a navy-header clinical PDF report (with charts, tables, methodology) and a multi-sheet Excel workbook covering vitals and medications. The exports are designed to be handed to a consulting doctor who has never seen Galen.
What's the auth story?
Passkeys by default, with TOTP and PIN as fallbacks — pick what works for your device. Sensitive changes (removing a passkey, rotating a code, exporting a chart) require step-up re-auth. Every login and every chart access is logged.
Can I self-host?
Yes — Galen ships as a single Remix + Postgres app. Set five environment variables, point a domain at it, and you have your clinic's chart on your own box. No vendor seat fees, no usage caps.
How does my family stay in the loop?
You add them as a notification contact and pick their channel: email, SMS, or both. Check-in and check-out arrive as plain text. Urgent items (a flagged note, a missed shift) ship a short SMS with a secure link — tapping it prompts for the patient code before showing anything. Family can be on docuity or not; the verified phone number is what we send to.
Can my nursing company schedule for me?
Yes. The agency registers an organisation, and your dashboard shows their request to schedule on your chart. You approve; their coordinators can then plan shifts for caregivers you've already granted clinical access to. The agency never sees your notes, vitals, alerts, or photos — only the schedule.
What happens when a caregiver doesn't show up?
A shift that's past its planned start with no check-in is flagged as a missed check-in. The grace window is 15 minutes; after that, every contact subscribed to the missed-check-in event gets an alert. The chart's today's-coverage panel surfaces it in red so anyone opening the chart sees it immediately.
Get started
Open a chart in under a minute.
Patients open their own chart and hand the code to a caregiver. Caregivers register once and accept invites from the patient.