How do you build a private AI health dashboard from your own records?

Short answer: Jordan Metzner says he runs it locally with SQLite, not online, and adds new blood work after each doctor visit. He says Epic's MyChart makes it easy to export blood work history and medications.

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From Episode 30: Claude Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3, and the Rise of Multi-Agent AI, starting at 4:18.

Sam Nadler [4:17]: Wow. And in terms of, like, continuing feature build out, are you gonna have I mean, maybe you have already. You added some family contacts, but, as you get health tests throughout the year or throughout, future years, whether it's blood tests or additional tests, do you are you planning on incorporating that into this holistic, health insight dashboard?

Jordan Metzner [4:40]: Yeah. So I'm, I'm trying to find insights and learnings that are, like, not easily available. I'm gonna visit my doctor in a few weeks, so I'm gonna show him kind of everything I've built. But every time I go to my doctor and I get some blood work back, my plan is to add it into the system so that I have this kind of holistic, a system that has, like, all of my information in it. This is kind of some physical traits that came out of my DNA. But, yeah, I think over time, as I get, more and more feedback from my doctor and from just overall my health behavior in general, then I'll add it in here. And hopefully, as the models improve as well, maybe I'll get some more unique insights that maybe weren't easily available previously.

Sam Nadler [5:19]: Cool. And is this tied to a back end database, or is it SQLite? Or

Jordan Metzner [5:24]: Actually, there's no database. Yeah. I think I use SQLite. I'm really I think I use SQLite, and it's all just run locally on my computer. I don't really care to put it on the Internet as it's, like, not as critical for me. So I just run it every time I need it, and I, kinda go through it, and then I'll show my doctor when I see him next time. And otherwise, I'll just, keep updating it until I find kind of, even better results or see if there's any other changes.

Sam Nadler [5:47]: Absolutely love it. I think it's a really smart way to leverage AI tools to stay on top of your health trends. I mean, I've oh, wow. Personally, I get the seal of approval from the doctor once a year, and then I kinda forget about it. I don't really keep track of how, my blood analyses are trending. My blood work's trending year over year. I have a little bit maybe in the last year, but, like, historically, have not whatsoever. So I think this is a really powerful tool, yeah, it totally makes sense to keep it locally. I don't think there's any need to get it online, but super cool.

Jordan Metzner [6:26]: Yeah. I mean, if you, if your doctor's using something like an Epic, like MyChart or something like that, then it becomes pretty easy to export your blood work history and any other history you have. You can add any medicines, medications you're on, etcetera, really just start to build out kind of this dashboard for yourself that kinda gives you insight into your health.

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