Moving from CommonHealth to LabFlow
A public-service app from The Commons Project that collects a person's health data from several providers, stores it only on the device and shares it with the services the person trusts. Last checked 7 November 2026. Check CommonHealth yourself, because a page that says something newer than this one is right.
The side-by-side comparison, with LabFlow's own limits, is on the LabFlow site. This page is about making the move.
Before you move
- Choose CommonHealth if you want your data kept only on your own phone, never in a cloud, and your providers already offer the connections it imports from.
- Choose LabFlow if the laboratories you use are the ones producing the result, because the record is written there once and reaches you without an import, and it is still there if the phone is lost.
The move, step by step
There is no way to bring a record across. LabFlow imports nothing from CommonHealth or from any other system.
- Keep what CommonHealth holds. Download what it lets you download and keep it somewhere of your own. The pages we checked do not say how long it stays available after you leave.
- Find a laboratory that runs LabFlow. The directory lists those that have published a listing. LabFlow's portal only holds results from laboratories on LabFlow.
- Open the patient portal once a laboratory has linked your account to your record and released something.
- Share a report, and stop sharing it when you choose. A share opens one whole report. There is no LabFlow ID to give a laboratory, no access request to accept and no sharing section by section.
CommonHealth's prices
As its own pages stated them on 7 November 2026, not converted between currencies. LabFlow's are on the pricing page.
| Plan | Price | What the page says | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CommonHealth | No price stated | No price stated on the page | Source |
What each one says it does
"Not stated on the pages we checked" is not a no. Ask CommonHealth. LabFlow's column lists only what has shipped.
| What we looked for | CommonHealth | LabFlow |
|---|---|---|
| A price on the public page | No (source) | Yes |
| A free plan, or free for the person | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| The person decides who sees a record | Yes (source) | Yes. One frozen report at a time, by a link the person can withdraw. |
| Share one section only (one test, one report) | Not stated on the pages we checked | No. A share opens one whole report. There is no grant for the ECG only or the X-ray only. |
| A laboratory asks for access by the person's ID and the person accepts | Not stated on the pages we checked | No. Not in the product today. There is no ID to give and no request to accept. |
| Access can be withdrawn later | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Records from more than one laboratory or clinic in one place | Yes (source) | In part. Every LabFlow laboratory the person used. Nothing is imported from outside LabFlow. |
| Records kept for years, stated on the page | Not stated on the pages we checked | In part. Free keeps 12 months, then read-only. The paid plans set no cap. No number of years is promised. |
| An Android app | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Works in a browser | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
What LabFlow does not have
LabFlow has no ID a person can give a laboratory, no laboratory access requests and no sharing section by section. It has no desktop app, promises no retention period and makes no backup commitment. No laboratories run it in production. Status and limits has the full list.