Keep your meals and your lab results in one place
How Senumi reads blood sugar and cholesterol values from a lab report, what it saves and what it does not, and how the record can help a conversation with your doctor.
A check-up gives you a few numbers once or twice a year. Your meals happen three times a day. Most people keep the two in different places: the lab report in a drawer or an email, and what they ate in their memory, which is not a good place for it.
This page explains how Senumi keeps both in one app, what it can read from a lab report, and what it cannot do.
Senumi records results; it does not interpret them. Your doctor is the right person to tell you what your results mean. To understand the common check-up numbers first, read Your check-up results came back.
What Senumi reads from a lab report
You can add a lab result in four ways: take a photo of a printed report, choose a photo from your gallery, import a PDF, or type the values in yourself. A report with several pages can be added page by page.
The text is read on your phone. Senumi looks for four values and saves them as readings:
- fasting blood sugar
- total cholesterol
- LDL cholesterol
- HDL cholesterol
Other values, such as HbA1c and triglycerides, may be recognised and listed under "Not yet supported (not saved)". They stay on your paper report; Senumi does not keep them yet.
You check every value before it is saved
Reading a photographed report is never perfect, so nothing is saved straight away. A review screen shows each value it found, with:
- the value, which you can correct
- the reference range printed on the report, when there is one
- a warning on any value that needs checking
- the date of the test, taken from the report where possible, which you can change
If the report shows a blood glucose without saying it was a fasting test, Senumi asks you to confirm before saving it as fasting blood sugar, and lets you leave it out. A reference number, such as a range like 70-99, is never saved as your result.
If the photo is hard to read, Premium members can choose to send it for a cloud reading instead, only after agreeing to it. Free users always get the reading on the phone.
What the record is for
Once results are saved, they sit next to your meal log:
- A trend, not a single number. Each reading appears on daily, weekly, monthly and yearly charts, so you can see results from several check-ups side by side.
- Something to bring to an appointment. You can export a PDF of your record: seven days on the free plan, or 30 days, 90 days or your complete history with Premium.
- Context for the conversation. If you also log meals, your doctor or dietitian can see roughly what you ate around the time of a test, rather than relying on memory.
What Senumi does not do
- It does not diagnose, treat or interpret results, and it does not tell you whether a number is good or bad for you.
- It does not replace your original report. Always check a saved value against it.
- It does not save HbA1c, triglycerides or the other values listed as not yet supported.
- Its food and portion figures are estimates.
Nothing here is medical advice. If a result worries you, or a report is marked as urgent, contact your doctor rather than waiting for the next check-up.
This article is general health information, not medical advice. Senumi does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition. Talk to a qualified healthcare professional about your own situation.
