HealthFrame Lite for Windows

HealthFrame Lite places more emphasis on its 'lite' side rather than actually keeping track of medical records. HealthFrame Lite's well-designed, skinnable interface lets you browse through its printable templates for healthcare providers, immunizations, medications, and medical history. Pages to log your expenses--such as copayments and equipment--are given, as are graphs to track blood glucose, lipids, and pressure. A printable emergency card with blank slots for a photo and pertinent information are shown, but you'll have to upload medical records to the program to use this feature (and everything else, for that matter).

Although customization options are shown, actual entries aren't allowed. The only form we're able to make changes to is the emergency card, and that's just to create new entry lines, not to input personal data. The choice to input your own data would have been nice. Instead, HealthFrame Lite has a sample request form to send to your doctor and uses importing features to upload the data, which must be in the publisher's HealthFrame Explorer format. Possibly useful--once your doctor has e-mailed all of your information, or if you use HealthFrame Explorer--this free 19MB download certainly isn't user-friendly by our standards.