Jim Goodrick (24 Sep 2005)
"VeriMed - chip : Networking Health Databases"


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Hurricanes, Health Records and you -- Sept. 23, 2005
In the wake of Katrina, the federal government responded by beginning to collect pharmacy, Medicaid, Veterans Administration and other medical information for a centralized database that doctors can use as they treat displaced patients.
when doctors and hospitals have your records they’re called electronic medical records, or EMRs,
but once you have them, they’re called personal health records, or PHRs

3 sites :
The American Medical Association’s iHealthRecord.org coordinates with more than 100,000 doctors’ own Web sites; if your physician is one of them, that’s a logical choice.
WebMD’s Health Manager offers storage along with many interactive features and tests.
FollowMe is a five-year-old service that also allows groups — employers or hospitals — to offer PHRs as a service to customers or employees. All these sites, of course, emphasize high security standards: You control access to your records

One Solution with chip
The ultimate solution may be that provided by a service called VeriMed. As do the other providers, VeriMed stores your PHR online — but then also provides a tiny chip that is implanted, usually under the skin of your upper arm, containing a unique 16 digit number.
Even if you are unconscious, a VeriMed scanner can read that number from your chip and locate your health records online.

VeriMed offers the scanners to hospital emergency rooms for free."

VA, Kaiser and others have Online Medical services

Networking
"On the Web, patients can make appointments, check on lab and other test results and view some of their medical records. Our clinics are all linked together so a patient being seen at one center can have her record, lab results and even digital x-rays viewed by a specialist at another center. If needed, we also have a video system where a specialist can talk and see a patient who is in another center.
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