Imagine that you are on a regular business trip to a foreign country. You crumble after your dinner in a fantastic seafood restaurant. Upon arrival at the hospital, under the current fragmented health system, obtaining medical documentation is difficult, answers to questions whether you are allergic to any seafood or your previous history of medicine or even contact information of your primary doctor is difficult to obtain. You will be treated like any other patient who arrives in an emergency. When you leave the hospital, you will have nothing more than a paper report on your medical history.
What are the chances of repeating this episode? And how can you make a note that you may be allergic to certain types of seafood? Can you carry this important medical information with you?
Digital Personal Health Record can answer these questions. Digital personal medical records allow people to store their vital health information in an easy-to-use format. These can be memory keys, such as USB drives or CDs. However, Memory Stick or USB drives are popular because they are easy to use and portable. In addition, the data in them can be repeatedly changed.
The basic health information that you should carry with these USB drives is your personal contact information, emergency contact information, and health insurance contact information. Along with medical or surgical history and treatment history. The history of any drug allergy, as well as any other type of food, should be part of your emergency information guide.
They can be easily created in a text document and saved on your USB drive. You can also identify this USB drive with a sticker saying that this is your health information file. The only danger of this method is that if you lose your USB drive, all your health and contact information will be lost.
To protect against this, you need to purchase a commercially available USB drive with a saved health information template along with password protection. These small precautions will help you better organize your medical information and help doctors optimize your treatment in case of an emergency.
If people always carry a portable personal record with them, doctors can quickly establish the patient’s medical antecedents upon arrival at the hospital in case of any emergency. When they leave the hospital, they can wear an updated treatment history all the time and everywhere. This will allow a person to keep records of their medical information during illness. Physicians can provide better optimized care for patients who have complete medical records.
Denial of responsibility:
This article is for informational purposes only and is in no way intended to replace medical consultation with a qualified professional. The author urges Internet users to exercise caution when using medical information. If you are unsure of your medical condition, consult a doctor.
Reference:
http://www.open.medicdrive.org
Open MedicDrive is a collaborative wiki to promote and educate about the role of information technology in the field of health in the field of personal medicine management.
