MedicKey USB Flash Drive: Your Personal Health Record for Travel & Home Use

By Roy Barnes, published Apr 11, 2008
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MedicKey has made available to the public this USB flash drive that contains your Personal Health Record (PHR), which can come in handy when you travel or when you're in your hometown, especially if your doctors' offices/pharmacies are closed or their records are inaccessible for whatever reasons like fires or natural disasters. This MedicKey USB flash drive that accesses one's Personal Health Record isn't just good for travel, for these products are also excellent for all members of the family at anytime. This is because you can have the Personal Health Record right at hand via a MedicKey USB flash drive when you need it, including travel, if you can get access to a Windows-based computer that uses NT, Windows 2000, and XP versions.

The Importance Of Accessible Health Information

For those who take medications, have allergies, are on the road with travel (all of which apply to me), or who are the emergency contacts of friends and loved ones, or spend time living in more than one city, it can be hard to have instant access to their Personal Health Records when an emergency strikes themselves or those who are close to them like one's spouse or kids. With this MedicKey that I have, I'm able to have a portable USB flash drive on me (which I can carry around my neck) whenever I want to, This can make the difference if I have to receive emergency treatment, because the care providers like EMT's or doctors will know what treatments to give me or not to give me via the medications which I take and my allergies (that are going to interfere with my medications and/or cause allergic reactions). This handy electronic USB flash drive Personal Health Record could be the difference someday if I'm in harm's way.

I'm glad to be able to use this kind of USB flash drive that MedicKey provides, because what would happen if I'm found unconscious, whether I'm in my hometown somewhere or on a travel writing assignment? I don't wear any kind of bracelets that would give indication to my penicillin allergy or other important facets of my Personal Health Record.

MedicKey USB Flash Drive: Your Personal Health Record for Travel & Home Use
MedicKey USB Flash Drive: Your Personal Health Record for Travel & Home Use

The MedicKey is a USB flash drive that contains your Personal Health Record.

Credit: Roy A. Barnes

Copyright: Roy A. Barnes

Takeaways
  • The MedicKey is a USB flash drive that contains one's Personal Health Record.
  • The MedicKey can store a family's Personal Health Records.
  • You can store images in the MedicKey like legal documents and x-rays!
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