For neurologists and epilepsy nurses
What your patient's Herald report shows
Herald is a journal people with epilepsy keep for themselves. When they choose, they bring you a report for a stretch of time. Herald describes what they logged. It doesn't diagnose, it gives no advice, and it isn't a medical device.
In the report
- Each seizure and aura: the date and local time, how long, the type in the patient's own words, awareness, rescue medication, any emergency care or injury, and recovery
- Counts for the period, written as sentences, never charts
- Daily check-ins: sleep, stress, energy and, if they log them, mood and their cycle
- Medications and doses taken or skipped, from Herald or from Apple Health
- Their own notes, and the questions they want to ask you, in their words
- Nothing interpreted: no patterns, scores or predictions go into the report
How it reaches you
The patient makes the report on their iPhone or iPad and shares it themselves: a PDF they print, email or AirDrop, or a spreadsheet of their whole log.
Herald sends nothing to you or anyone else. There's no portal and no account, and Herald itself never sees the report.
Their seizure action plan comes as a PDF too, for school, work or a care home.
Herald on one page, for your clinic
What Herald is and isn't, what the report shows and how patients share it, to keep at the desk or hand to a patient. In US letter and A4, in Herald's eight languages.
What Herald never does
It doesn't detect or predict seizures, score risk, suggest doses or change anything about care. It reminds patients to talk with you before changing their care.
A question, or a correction?
If something in Herald's pages about epilepsy should be put differently, write to support@heraldjournal.app. Every page shows its sources and the date it was checked.