# AfterCare

## Docs

- [Introduction to AfterCare and Its Safety Guarantee](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/introduction.md): AfterCare reads your hospital discharge paperwork and builds a structured recovery plan. Learn about its safety guarantee and eight core features.
- [Quickstart: From Discharge Summary to Recovery Plan](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/quickstart.md): Create an AfterCare account, upload your discharge summary, and open your recovery guide — medications, appointments, and warning signs included.
- [How AfterCare Turns Your Discharge Document Into a Plan](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/how-it-works.md): AfterCare processes your discharge document in eight steps to produce a verified recovery plan. Learn what each step does and what you get from it.
- [Uploading Your Discharge Paperwork to AfterCare App](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/features/upload.md): Add your hospital discharge paperwork as a PDF or photo. AfterCare skips duplicates and shows live progress while it builds your recovery plan.
- [Your Medication Schedule and Dose Tracking in AfterCare](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/features/medications.md): See every medication from your discharge paperwork — name, dose, timing, food notes, and confidence level — and mark each dose taken as you go.
- [Tracking Your Follow-Up Appointments in AfterCare App](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/features/appointments.md): View every follow-up visit extracted from your discharge paperwork — provider, specialty, location, and date — all in one place to manage.
- [Your Daily Recovery Plan: Today's Tasks in AfterCare](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/features/daily-plan.md): Today's Plan shows which medications are due, which recovery steps apply right now, and your check-in status — all drawn from your discharge paperwork.
- [Daily Symptom Check-In: Track Your Recovery Progress](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/features/check-in.md): Answer three quick questions about pain, your wound, and how you feel. AfterCare uses a traffic-light score and alerts your care circle when needed.
- [Emergency Warning Signs from Your Discharge Paperwork](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/features/emergency.md): AfterCare surfaces the warning signs your own discharge document listed so you know exactly which symptoms to watch for during your recovery.
- [Ask Questions About Your Hospital Discharge Document](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/features/ask.md): Search pre-extracted answers from your discharge paperwork, or ask new questions against the document. Every answer cites the exact line it came from.
- [Medical Terms from Your Discharge Document Explained](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/features/terms.md): AfterCare finds every medical term in your discharge document and explains it in plain language, with a reference back to the passage where it appeared.
- [Accessibility Settings: Make AfterCare Work for You](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/accessibility/overview.md): Adjust text size, line spacing, contrast, dark mode, reduce motion, dyslexia font, link underlining, and bigger buttons to tailor AfterCare to your needs.
- [Read-Aloud Mode: Hear Your Recovery Guide Spoken Aloud](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/accessibility/read-aloud.md): Start, stop, and adjust speed for AfterCare's read-aloud feature, which reads any screen aloud including medications, appointments, and warning signs.
- [Caregiver Access: Share Your Recovery Guide with Family](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/caregivers/overview.md): Let trusted family members view your AfterCare recovery guide. Caregiver alerts fire automatically when a daily check-in scores orange or red.
- [Managing Your Care Circle: Add and Update Caregivers](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/caregivers/care-circle.md): Step-by-step guide to adding caregivers in AfterCare's care circle, with details on how alerts are recorded when a daily check-in turns orange or red.
- [Creating and Managing Your AfterCare Account](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/account/sign-in.md): Register with email and password, sign in, sign out, and understand how AfterCare's session tokens keep your recovery guide secure.
- [Using AfterCare Offline Without an Account](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/account/offline-mode.md): Learn how AfterCare's three runtime modes — Full, Sync, and Local — determine what you can do without a server or an account.
- [Your Data and Privacy in AfterCare](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/account/data-privacy.md): How AfterCare encrypts your documents, logs access, handles deduplication, and lets you delete your data completely at any time.
- [AfterCare Frequently Asked Questions](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/account/faq.md): Answers to common questions about AfterCare's accuracy, supported file types, privacy protections, offline use, and how to interpret your recovery guide.
- [AfterCare REST API Overview and Base URL](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/api/overview.md): A complete reference for the AfterCare REST API: base URL, Bearer token auth, JSON content types, rate limiting, and structured error format.
- [Authenticating with the AfterCare API Using JWT Tokens](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/api/authentication.md): Register, log in, and authenticate AfterCare API requests with short-lived JWT access tokens. Covers token refresh rotation and logout.
- [Start Processing a Discharge Document — POST /upload](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/api/upload.md): POST /upload accepts a multipart PDF or image, queues it for processing, and returns a documentId and SSE stream URL. Requires authentication.
- [Stream Processing Progress — GET /process/{documentId}](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/api/process.md): GET /process/{documentId} streams pipeline progress as Server-Sent Events. Each event carries a stage and status. Reconnection replays missed events.
- [List Medications from a Recovery Plan — GET /medications](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/api/medications.md): Retrieve medications from a recovery plan with GET /medications. Record doses taken with POST /medications/{id}/taken. Both require authentication.
- [List Appointments and Export to Calendar — /appointments](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/api/appointments.md): GET /appointments returns follow-up appointments from a recovery plan. POST /appointments/{id}/calendar downloads an ICS file. Both require authentication.
- [POST /ask — Ask a Question About Your Recovery Document](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/api/ask.md): Ask a natural-language question about your discharge document and receive a grounded answer with source line citations and a StructuredAiError on failure.
- [Document Management: Retrieve and Delete Your Records](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/api/documents.md): GET /documents/{id}/original retrieves your decrypted file. DELETE /documents/{id} permanently removes the document, plan, and all associated data.
- [Accessibility Preferences API: Get and Set User Settings](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/api/accessibility.md): Retrieve or replace your accessibility preferences. Settings sync across devices and cover text scale, contrast, motion, dyslexia font, and speech rate.
- [Google Drive Integration: Import and Back Up Documents](https://aftercaredocs.mintlify.app/api/drive.md): Connect Google Drive to import discharge documents and back up your recovery guide. Complete the OAuth flow before calling the import or backup endpoints.


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