Import Cerba HealthCare PDF Results into Health3

Why Cerba Patients Benefit From Longitudinal Tracking

Cerba HealthCare is one of Europe's largest medical diagnostics groups, headquartered in France and operating across more than seventeen countries spanning Western Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Patients in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, and beyond often receive routine biology, hormone, infectious-disease, oncology, and prenatal screening panels through Cerba laboratories or its regional affiliates. Each visit produces a detailed PDF report, but most patients only ever see those results in isolation, comparing one snapshot against a static reference range.

A single ferritin or TSH value tells you very little; a year of values plotted against your own baseline tells you almost everything. By importing each new Cerba PDF as it arrives, you build a personal time series across 180 biomarkers, with reference-range overlays drawn directly from the report. If you move between Cerba sites in different countries, all of those values still flow into the same continuous timeline. This is especially useful for expats living abroad and frequent travellers.

How to Download Your Cerba PDF Report

Cerba HealthCare delivers patient results through several channels depending on the country, the laboratory site, and the local sub-brand structure of the group. The exact portal and login flow can vary, so the steps below describe the general pattern rather than a specific URL.

1. Receive your access notification. After your sample is analysed, the lab typically sends an email or SMS with a secure link or a temporary password to access your results.
2. Log in to the patient portal. Use the credentials provided by the lab, which often include your patient identifier, date of birth, and a one-time code.
3. Locate the most recent report. Look for a section titled along the lines of Mes resultats, Resultats d'analyses, or the equivalent in your local language.
4. Download the full PDF. Choose the official, complete PDF rather than a partial summary. Health3 works best when it can see the full report including reference ranges and units.
5. Save the file to your phone. Either save directly to your device or forward the email attachment to a folder you can reach from the Health3 app.

If you have older paper-only reports from before the portal era, you can still import those by photographing each page from inside Health3, or by scanning them into a multi-page PDF first.

How Health3 Reads French-Language Cerba PDFs

Health3's lab-report parser does not rely on rigid, lab-specific templates. Instead, it interprets the structure and language of each report on the fly, with an internal cross-check that reconciles the parsed text against expected formats to reduce errors.

That approach has two practical consequences for Cerba patients:

• Multilingual coverage. Health3's app interface is available in 25 languages, and the OCR engine has been validated against lab reports in 25 languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, and English, among others. Whether your Cerba report is issued in metropolitan France, Wallonia, Milan, or Luxembourg City, the engine reads the local language directly.
• Resilience to layout changes. Because the engine reasons about content rather than matching fixed coordinates, occasional changes to a Cerba laboratory's report header, footer, or table layout usually do not require an app update.

To import a Cerba PDF, open Health3 and choose upload. You can attach a multi-page PDF up to 100 MB, photograph a printed page, or enter values manually. iOS users can also pull in clinical records linked through Apple Health.

What Happens After You Upload

Once the file is processed, Health3 maps each line item to a known biomarker definition and adds the new values to your personal history. Several aspects are worth understanding for European patients in particular.

Units. Many Cerba reports use SI units that are common across Europe. Glucose, cholesterol, and triglycerides are frequently expressed in mmol/L; creatinine often appears in micromol/L. Health3 stores both unit systems and supports bidirectional conversion between mg/dL and mmol/L, so you can compare your French Cerba values directly against, for example, US-style results from a previous lab. The standalone blood-test unit converter is also available if you want to convert ad hoc.

Reference ranges. Health3 stores the reference range printed on your specific Cerba report alongside the value. When you view the trend chart, you can see whether a result drifted within or outside the lab-reported range over time. This matters because reference ranges may differ subtly between Cerba sites, between countries, and from one analyser generation to the next.

Trends and insights. Once at least two values exist for a given marker, the time-series chart activates and the journey-aware AI insights layer surfaces patterns across multiple results, such as a slow drift in vitamin D across winters. Insights are educational and never diagnostic. If a value looks misread, you can correct it before saving.

Privacy, Data Handling, and Limitations

Health3 is built to align with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Patient data, including imported Cerba PDFs and the extracted biomarker values, is handled subject to the privacy policy that governs your account. Health3 is not stated to be HIPAA-certified and should not be relied upon as a HIPAA-covered service.

Account security is provided through email-and-password sign-in, Apple Sign-In, and Google Sign-In. When you need to share specific results with a partner, parent, or caregiver, the PDF export gives you a clean, one-off document you can hand over without giving up any ongoing access to your account.

A few honest limitations to keep in mind:

• Health3 does not have a direct API integration with Cerba HealthCare. All imports go through PDF, photo, or manual entry.
• Health3 covers 180 commonly tracked biomarkers. Some highly specialised oncology, genetic, or microbiology results from Cerba may not have a matching biomarker definition and will be stored as document attachments rather than as charted values.
• Health3 is not a telehealth service. It does not offer test kits, genetic analysis, or medical diagnoses. Always discuss your results with a qualified clinician.
• The free tier includes a limited library; full access is available through a subscription managed by RevenueCat.

Common Cerba Biomarker Categories

Useful Cross-Links Inside Health3

• Blood-test tracking for expats — for patients moving between Cerba and labs in other countries.
• Blood-test tracking for biohackers — for European biohackers running quarterly Cerba panels.
• Blood-test tracking for women over 40 — relevant for hormone and bone-health monitoring.
• Blood-test unit converter — switch between mg/dL and mmol/L on demand.
• Fasting timer — for fasted draws before lipid or glucose panels.
• Complete blood test guide — background reading on what each panel actually measures.

Bring Your Cerba Results Into Health3

Upload your French-language PDF, watch the AI extract every biomarker, and start building a continuous picture of your health across visits and countries.