The patient-owned health app that fits your entire medical history - and your family's - into one login, then reads your vitals off your face.
Here is a fact about healthcare that should be more embarrassing than it is: in an emergency, the person in the room who knows the least about your medical history is frequently you. You do not know your dosages. You may not know the names of your medications. You know that one of them is small and possibly blue. This is not because you are careless. It is because nobody ever gave you a good place to keep the information, and so you kept it the way humans keep things they have no place for, which is to say badly, in a drawer, on paper that fades.
Dr. Saroj Gupta spent more than twenty years running a private dental practice, which is a long time to watch this problem repeat itself. Patients arrived without records. Prescriptions were lost or forgotten. Vaccination cards were scattered across paper files, or across three different clinics, or across a memory that had stopped being reliable years ago. The interesting thing about Gupta's response is that she did not conclude patients were the problem. She concluded the filing system was the problem - specifically, that there wasn't one, at least not one the patient controlled. In 2022 she founded MyDigiRecords, generally shortened to MDR, to build it.
The premise is almost aggressively simple. Your medical history should live somewhere you can reach it, it should belong to you rather than to whichever hospital happened to generate it, and it should follow you around the way your photos and your bank balance and your music already do. MDR is a personal health record app - a PHR, in the industry's charmless acronym - that lets you store, manage, and share immunizations, prescriptions, lab reports, and more. The genuinely useful part, the part that is easy to overlook because it is not futuristic, is that one account holds records for multiple family members. Your kids. Your aging parents. The people whose medications you are, whether you signed up for it or not, now responsible for tracking.
Figures reported by the company and press coverage; treat as approximate.
MDR is built as a stack of features that each solve one small indignity of managing your own health. Individually they are unremarkable. Bundled into a single patient-owned account, they start to look like the filing system that healthcare forgot to give you.
Securely store and reach your medical records anytime - and manage records for several family members from one login. Share them with a provider regardless of where the records came from.
Point your phone's camera at your face and get estimates for heart rate, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, stress, and blood-pressure trends. No cuff, no wearable. The kind of feature that is either thrilling or unsettling depending on your temperament.
Smart tracking against WHO- and CDC-aligned schedules, turning static immunization guidelines into reminders that actually fire - for the whole household.
Prescription tracking, dose reminders, and AI drug-interaction alerts - the last of which exists specifically to catch the dangerous combination nobody flagged.
Create and manage your Ayushman Bharat Health Account inside the app and link your records to India's national digital health ecosystem.
Most health apps want your data. MDR's entire architecture is built around handing it back - portable, patient-controlled, yours to move.
Everyone in health tech talks about interoperability - the idea that your records should move cleanly between systems - and almost nobody ships it, because it is boring, hard, and requires cooperation from institutions that have no particular incentive to cooperate. MDR's most consequential move was aligning with the Government of India's Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, a national program to give every citizen a digital health identity. MDR got certified for successful integration with it, and was recognized by India's National Health Authority as a compliant platform.
What makes this notable is the direction of travel. A company founded in Kansas City, Missouri found its largest user base not in Missouri but in India, where the reported user count now sits north of 40,000. This is not the usual Silicon-Valley-conquers-the-world story. It is a company going to the market that most needed a patient-owned records layer - a place where records were genuinely scattered and a national digital rail was actively being built - and plugging directly into it. From there MDR expanded into Ethiopia and South Africa, markets that share the same underlying problem and rarely make the pitch decks of American healthtech.
Harvard-educated physician with decades of clinical experience across India and the United States, including more than 20 years running a private dental practice. Her motivation for MDR came from routine clinical encounters rather than technological ambition - watching patients arrive without accurate documentation of their own medical history, over and over, until she decided the fix was a product. She now leads a small cross-border team building it.
In September 2022, MDR announced a sizable pre-seed investment from Terry Dunn - former CEO of J.E. Dunn Construction, which is not a name you expect to find on a healthtech cap table. The company reports raising more than $1.5 million in pre-seed backing in total, with additional support from Kansas City's early-stage ecosystem. The money went where pre-seed money goes: commercializing the app and funding international growth.
Also backed by Digital Sandbox KC and Comeback KC Ventures. Round amount partly undisclosed.
Reported global expansion from Kansas City into India, Ethiopia and South Africa, surpassing 30,000 app downloads.
Reached 40,000+ users in India and deepened ABDM/ABHA integration.
Rolled out SmartVitals AI facial-scan vitals and expanded medication-management features.
Announced pre-seed funding led by former J.E. Dunn CEO Terry Dunn to commercialize the app.
MyDigiRecords founded in Kansas City by Dr. Saroj Gupta.
The consumer app is the front door: individuals and families download it and manage their own records. The business underneath runs on distribution - partnering with commercial insurers, state health plans, employers, hospitals, and nonprofits who have every reason to want their members carrying accurate, portable health data. It is a B2C product with a B2B and B2G engine, which is a sensible shape for a company whose whole thesis is that the patient should be the one holding the records.
The alternatives: you could pin your data inside Apple Health or Google Health Connect, use a provider-locked portal like MyChart, or in India reach for Practo or Eka Care. MDR's differentiator is the combination - patient-owned, family-wide, camera-based vitals, and a live line into a national health system.
Reporting compiled from company materials and public press coverage. Figures are approximate where noted.