Sharing results with patients and referrers

The ways to get an assessment in front of someone outside the clinic, from PDF and CSV export to emailing a secure link straight to a patient or referrer, and the PHI rules that govern who receives what.

Updated July 8, 2026

An assessment is only useful if the right people can see it. ForceIQ gives you a few ways to share results outside the clinic, each suited to a different recipient.

PDF report

The most common way to share is the PDF report. From a session or the report screen, choose the trials and sections you want, then download a landscape PDF carrying your clinic branding, the torque-time curve, the metric table, and any notes. A PDF is self-contained, so you can hand it to a patient, attach it to a referral, or drop it into an EMR.

Email directly to a patient or referrer

From the report screen you can send the report straight to a patient or referring provider without leaving the app. Enter the recipient's email and ForceIQ sends them a secure, time-limited link to the report. The link expires after a set window, so a forwarded message does not stay live indefinitely. This is the quickest way to close the loop after a visit without printing anything.

CSV export

When the recipient wants the underlying numbers rather than a formatted report, export CSV. Two shapes are available:

  • Wide format puts one row per assessment date and limb, with metrics across the columns. This is the friendlier shape for a quick spreadsheet review.
  • Long format puts one row per metric, which is the shape most analysis tools and statisticians prefer.

Every report screen prints cleanly, so you can use your browser's print dialog to produce a paper copy or a save-as-PDF from any device. That is handy when you just need a fast copy and do not want to configure sections.

The PHI rules that govern sharing

By default, everything you share identifies the patient by their de-identified code, not their name. Reports, exports, and emailed links all follow that default, so a report is safe to share without exposing identity unless you deliberately include more.

If your clinic has enabled PHI fields, a report can optionally include patient identifiers. When it does, treat it as protected health information. Send it only to the intended recipient, and prefer the emailed secure link over an unprotected attachment for anything carrying identifiers. The emailed link is built for this, since it expires and points back to the controlled report rather than scattering a file.

When in doubt, share the de-identified version. The patient code plus the metrics is enough for almost every clinical conversation.

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