Health: Medication

Log what's taken and when – patchio reminds you in good time, keeps track of the supply, and keeps a dose log. Especially handy for children: parents add the medicine to the child's profile, and all listed carers can see whether the midday dose has already been taken.

Frequency

When adding a medicine, choose how often it's taken:

• Once / twice daily – the matching dose times are ready-made.
• As needed – no fixed plan and no reminders. The medicine appears on Today in its own “As needed” section, with a “Taken” button: tap it every time you take it – the last dose can be undone.
• Custom – choose between By weekday (e.g. Mon/Wed/Fri) and Every n days (a fixed interval, e.g. every 3rd day, counted from the start date). Either way, you can also set several dose times a day.
• Combos only – no plan of its own: the medicine doesn't appear on its own on “Today”, only as part of your combos (see Combos & supply).

Times, dose & unit

Each dose time has a dose in a chosen unit (tablet, capsule, drop, ml, puff, or your own). Example: 08:00 → 1 capsule, 20:00 → 2 capsules. The strength (e.g. “400 mg”) is separate – it's shown as text on the name and doesn't draw down the supply.

Need different times or doses at the weekend, turn on “Different times at weekends” and enter Saturday/Sunday separately. On “Today” and in reminders, the right plan for the day of the week then applies automatically.

Supply & restock reminder

Optionally, enter your supply (e.g. 30 capsules) and the amount at which you want to be reminded (e.g. 6). Every confirmed dose automatically draws down the supply; undoing a confirmation credits it back. Once the supply drops below the threshold, patchio notifies you once (in the app and by email) – after that, a subtle note stays on the medicine until you top up (“+ pack” or correct the amount). Only then is the reminder live again.

Duration

Open-ended for an ongoing treatment, until a date, or for n days (patchio works out the end date, e.g. antibiotics for 7 days). After the end, the medicine no longer appears on “Today”.

Reminders

At dose time, patchio notifies you via the bell and by email – with the exact dose (“2 capsules at 20:00”). The email subject deliberately names no medicine (“Reminder: intake at 20:00”), so the name doesn't show in the preview or on the lock screen; it is in the body of the mail. For a child, reminders go to all listed carers. You can pause reminders per medicine (e.g. on holiday): doses stay tickable on “Today”, you just don't get notified. Turning them off entirely – for all medicines – is done in your profile under Notifications, where you control the supply reminder separately. Note: pausing only affects dose reminders, not the supply reminder.

Adding one – on your phone and on a computer

On your phone, you add a medicine step by step (Medicine → Dose plan → Duration → Supply & visibility); to edit, open the individual sections via cards. On a computer, everything sits in one dialogue with section navigation on the left.

Private, on purpose

Like everything in the Health module, medicines are private by default – only you and the carers on your list see them. Admins don't, unless they're on that list. You can share a medicine with specific people or the whole family. Whoever can see the plan can also see the supply.

When a child gets their own login, listed carers stay and the child gets a notification. The child can remove them in their profile, and after that they can no longer see the child's private data and get no more reminders. Entries that removed carers created for the child then belong to the child, and anything they made visible to others is private again. Only what the child shared themselves stays shared. The same applies when someone leaves the household or is removed by another carer. For children without their own login, an entry you created yourself stays visible to you even once you're no longer listed, but you can no longer change it. When someone gets a login, all entries by people who aren't on their list at that point belong to them.

For adults, the list is dropped at their first login unless they agree to it in the invitation dialog. If it's dropped, entries someone created for them before then belong to them too. Anyone who stays on the list keeps their entries until they're removed.

If you've shared an entry of your own with a profile that has no login and that profile gets a login, the sharing ends and you get a notification. The admin decides who gets that login, so share it again if you want to. If you're listed as a child, the sharing stays. You get a notification in that case too and can take it back in the entry. The same applies to entries of another person with a login, and the notification then goes to that person. For entries of people without a login, the sharing stays and there's no notification.

An entry of your own that has been visible to everyone for a while stays visible, even when someone is removed: for older entries, there's no record of who set that. Set it to private yourself in that case.

Good to know

patchio isn't a medical product and doesn't replace medical advice – it just reminds you, tracks the supply, and logs what's been taken. Confirming works offline too. If a medicine is at the same time in a combo and also has its own plan, both count together as one dose, at the combo's amount. Existing medicines keep working unchanged until you add a unit or a supply.