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Medical History USB Drive (or whatever)

130 points posted to Healthcare by chrisrose.chrisrose 03/03/07

Boy, whatever happened to the idea of having a smartcard or flashcard (something akin to an SD) or a USB drive on which your entire history of medical records and charts are kept?

I've lived in 12 addresses in 16 years, and every time I move, I say goodbye to a doctor and all the specialists who've consulted. Getting those guys to share records with my new doctor is like pulling teeth. I just want something that a patient could ask doctors to copy their own medical records onto, and reasonably portable, and that is widespread and widely recognized -maybe it could have a big red cross on it, or one of those stick-with-a-snake dealios (that is, Rod of Asclepius) on it.

This is not like a photon torpedo or a teleporter, this is technology that is available now. What's needed is some big market player on the technology side with some leverage to promote and popularize it - because the medical community is too disjoint to quickly come to consensus about issues related to technology. Make it something that is associated with Dell and has an altruistic spin - "Look what Dell is doing for the health of your family. Dell cares (tm)". But make it something that will still be readable over the course of a human lifetime (not, say, like an 8" floppy) and give it reasonable encryption. Why should I have to rely on some dime-store jewelry to tell ER workers that I am allergic to penicillin?

aarida
03/03/07		 So would this plug into universal health care?
Would it work in Canada an the U.K. and other countries with a sane health care system?
chrisrose.chrisrose
03/04/07		 I'm not going to dignify that comment with a response -
arthus
03/05/07		 The technology is not the problem. Dell is not legislative strength and the topic data security by the appropriate governments is decided.
edric721
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