Product Updates

Medication Tracking & Care Team 💊

Three months in, and we're amazed by the stories you're sharing. Families coordinating care across continents. Adult children finally feeling confident managing elderly parents' health. Parents building comprehensive records for children with complex needs. This is why we built Flamingo.

Today's update makes managing ongoing treatment even easier.

Comprehensive Medication Tracking

Managing multiple medications is stressful. We're here to help:

• 💊 Complete medication list - All current and past medications in one place, automatically extracted from appointments and documents
• ⏰ Smart reminders - Get notified when it's time to take medication, with dosage and instructions
• 📅 Refill alerts - Never run out. Flamingo reminds you when refills are due based on your prescription
• 🔄 History tracking - See when medications were started, changed, or stopped, and why
• ⚠️ Interaction warnings - Get flagged about potential drug interactions based on your complete medication list
• 📱 Family coordination - Care partners receive reminders too, perfect for managing elderly relatives

The medication tracker learns from your appointment recordings and scanned prescriptions, keeping everything automatically up-to-date.

Care Team Collaboration

Healthcare works best when everyone's on the same page. Now you can invite your care team directly into Flamingo:

• 👨‍⚕️ Provider access - Invite GPs, specialists, and other healthcare providers to specific cases
• 🔒 Granular permissions - Control exactly what each provider can see and do
• 💬 Secure messaging - Ask questions and get responses within the platform
• 📊 Shared timeline - Your care team sees the complete picture, reducing redundant questions
• 🎯 Context for everyone - No more explaining your history repeatedly

This is especially powerful for complex conditions requiring multiple specialists, or when managing care for family members remotely.

Quality of Life Improvements

Based on your feedback, we've added:

• 🌙 Appointment prep mode - Before appointments, review previous visits and prepare questions
• 🔍 Enhanced search - Find anything across all cases, documents, and recordings
• 📍 Healthcare provider directory - Save information about your doctors, clinics, and pharmacies
• 📈 Health metrics - Track vital signs, symptoms, and other measurements over time
• 🌐 Multi-language support - Flamingo now available in Welsh, Polish, and Urdu

From our beta families

"My mum's on 8 different medications. The reminders and interaction warnings give me confidence she's taking everything safely." - Emma T.

"Being able to share my daughter's case with her specialists means they finally have the full picture. Game-changing for complex conditions." - David R.

What's next?

We're preparing to expand beyond invite-only beta. If you know families who could benefit from Flamingo, they can join the waitlist at flamingohealth.app. We'll be opening access throughout March.

Thank you for believing in us

Your feedback, patience, and trust mean everything. We're building something special together.

💙 The Flamingo Team

P.S. We're hiring! If you're passionate about healthcare and technology, check out our careers page.

Document Scanning & Export 📄

The paperwork never stops in healthcare. Test results, prescription letters, referral notes, discharge summaries - it all piles up fast. This update makes managing it all effortless.

Smart Document Scanning

Point your phone at any medical document and Flamingo does the rest:

• 📸 Instant OCR - Text is extracted and made searchable within seconds
• 🏷️ Auto-classification - AI identifies document type (lab results, prescription, referral, etc.)
• 📁 Smart filing - Documents are automatically suggested for the right case and health condition
• 🔍 Full-text search - Find any document by searching for words within them
• 📊 Data extraction - Key values like test results, dates, and dosages are pulled into structured data

No more digging through paper piles or photo libraries. Everything is organized, searchable, and right where you need it.

Complete Medical Export

You own your data, and today we're making it even easier to take it anywhere:

• 📦 Full vault export - Download your complete medical history as PDF or structured data
• 🏥 Provider-ready format - Export formatted specifically for sharing with healthcare providers
• 🔒 Selective sharing - Choose exactly which cases and documents to include in each export
• 📧 Secure sharing links - Send password-protected links that expire after a set time

Perfect for switching doctors, getting second opinions, or traveling abroad.

Cross-Case Intelligence

Remember how we mentioned connecting related information across cases? It's here:

• 🔗 Smart connections - Flamingo now suggests when information from one appointment is relevant to other conditions you're managing
• 💡 Insights - Get gentle prompts like "This medication was also discussed in your cardiology case"
• 🎯 Comprehensive view - See your complete health picture, not just isolated conditions

What beta users are saying

"I showed up to my specialist appointment with a complete PDF of everything from my GP. He was stunned. Said most patients arrive with scattered notes and missing records." - Sarah M.

"The document scanning is magical. I've been photographing my daughter's medical paperwork for years - now it's all searchable and organized." - James K.

Coming in February

We're working on medication tracking and reminders. Never miss a dose or forget to refill a prescription again.

💙 The Flamingo Team

Smarter Summaries & Mobile App 📱

One month into beta, and your feedback has been incredible. We've heard you loud and clear: transcriptions are great, but you need to find critical information quickly. Today's update delivers on that.

Enhanced AI Summaries

We've upgraded our AI to automatically extract and highlight the information that matters most:

• 💊 Medications - New prescriptions, dosage changes, and instructions are now clearly highlighted
• ✅ Action items - Follow-up appointments, tests to book, and tasks are automatically extracted
• ⚠️ Important findings - Key diagnoses, test results, and concerns are flagged for easy reference
• 📅 Timeline extraction - Dates and deadlines are pulled out so you never miss a follow-up

This means less time hunting through transcripts and more confidence that you've captured what matters.

Native Mobile Apps

We know you're not always at your computer when you need to record an appointment or check a result. Today we're launching our iOS and Android apps.

• 📱 Full feature parity with web - everything you can do on desktop, you can now do on mobile
• 🎙️ Better recording quality - optimized for clinical environments with background noise
• 🔔 Push notifications - reminders for follow-up appointments and medication schedules
• 📴 Offline mode - access your vault even without internet connection

Family Profiles

Based on your requests, you can now create separate profiles for each family member you're caring for. Each profile has its own vault, cases, and sharing settings, making it easier to manage care for multiple people.

What's next?

We're working on document scanning and OCR, so you can snap a photo of test results or prescription letters and have them automatically added to the right case. Expected in January.

Thank you

Your feedback drives every feature we build. Keep it coming - we're listening and learning every day.

💙 The Flamingo Team

Welcome to Flamingo Beta 🏥

Today marks a special milestone: Flamingo's invite-only beta is officially live. After months of conversations with families navigating complex medical journeys, we've built something we hope will make a real difference in your lives.

We know that managing healthcare for yourself and loved ones is overwhelming. Important conversations are forgotten, test results get lost, and coordinating care across family members feels impossible. Flamingo is here to change that.

What's included in the beta:

• 🎙️ One-touch appointment recording - Capture medical conversations without fumbling for pen and paper. Be fully present while we ensure nothing is forgotten.
• 📝 AI-powered transcription - Every recording is automatically transcribed and summarized, highlighting key information, diagnoses, and next steps.
• 📂 Organized medical vault - Store documents, images, test results, and notes in one secure place, organized by health case and family member.
• 👥 Family sharing - Securely share relevant medical information with family members while maintaining complete control over your privacy.
• 🔒 Bank-level security - Your family's health data is encrypted end-to-end and protected with the same security standards as your financial institution.

Why beta?

We're starting with a small group of families because we want to learn from you. Your feedback will shape every feature we build. We're committed to creating something that truly serves your needs, not what we think you might want.

What to expect:

This is just the beginning. Over the coming months, you'll see us add new capabilities, refine existing features, and respond directly to your feedback. We're building Flamingo with you, not just for you.

Ready to get started?

If you've received your invite, you can sign in and begin building your family's medical vault today. If you're on the waitlist, we'll be expanding access in the coming weeks.

Thank you for trusting us with something so important. We can't wait to see how Flamingo helps you take control of your family's health story.

💙 The Flamingo Team