According to the companies the technology will enable MedicAlert members to have an up-to-date digitized copy of their health records, their complete health story, immediately available to them, including patient charts, doctor’s notes, lab reports, prescriptions, immunization records, X-rays, and other medical images. The system even stores veterinary records for pets.
MyMedicalRecords.com also provides a virtual safe deposit box for all kinds of other vital documents that organizations such as the Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency recommend be kept in a secure yet portable location, including birth certificates, passports, living wills, powers of attorney, insurance policies and financial records, and photos of family, pets and property.
As part of the service offering, MedicAlert members will be assigned a personal local or toll-free lifeline telephone number that also serves as his or her User ID. Users can transmit their entire medical file by fax to their lifeline number or file upload to an account where the documents are digitized and converted to a PDF format and the subscriber is automatically notified by e-mail, text message or pager of the new record.
This means that a lifetime of paper records can be transferred to a member’s personal health record and be accessible anywhere in the world 24 hours a day from any internet-connected computer.
