Is there any electronic gadget for storing medical records?

[emilyjem]

Hello all, due to the difficulty in maintaining the bulky records of medical history I am looking out for any electronic gadget to manage the complete medical history of my father. I have gone through many of the services which give a wide range of electronics gadgets but couldn’t find any for maintaining the medical history electronically. If anyone from you knows any of such devices, then please let me know. Any help is appreciated.

[Goofproof]

I use computers, to store mine, and back-up the storage twice in different locations, and media. I currently use a Corsair Flash Voyager USB stick 32GB, It's large enough to store all the records, medical, and finance household, all in one place, and is easy to backup.

I suppose you could do it on a more costly PDA. Jim

[hobbs]

Never used it, but a Google search turned this up; http://www.wakefieldsoft.com/healthfile/
more; http://www.google.com/search?q=medical+ ... =firefox-a

[Paul56]

Numerous products available at the link below:

http://www.neatco.com/products

Then you can store them in some manner. I would suggest you keep at least two copies just in case something happens to one copy... you still have your "other" backup copy.

Now, I don't imagine you want everyone and their granny viewing your medical records so for storage you might want to consider something from these folks:

https://www.ironkey.com/

[Wulfman]

Hello all, due to the difficulty in maintaining the bulky records of medical history I am looking out for any electronic gadget to manage the complete medical history of my father. I have gone through many of the services which give a wide range of electronics gadgets but couldn’t find any for maintaining the medical history electronically. If anyone from you knows any of such devices, then please let me know. Any help is appreciated.

I would think it would still be advantageous to keep the physical documents. Electronic data can be kept in many ways/forms (spreadsheets or simple text files), but those things can get wiped out with a hard drive crash. Keep originals and make backups of "whatever" you get.

Den

[NightWorkDaySleep]

Also keep in mind accessibility, what good will having your old records do if you need to give that info to a health care provider and they can't access it. For the few patients I've run across doing this a simple flash drive with the documents is a better option than some sort of "medical record storage device" there are many marketed, but if the hospital or doctors office doesn't have the ability to read it...its useless and you will need a "hard copy" anyway. If you use one hospital system for most of your care they may already be transitioning to an electronic medial record and have the ability to give you an electronic copy but you would most likely have to contact medical records or the equivalent directly.

By the way I have seen this used very well...granted that I have never worked with a patient over the age of 12 but...a complex patient that I work with on a regular basis and who based on his problems will likely receive a lifetime of care from one hospital carries a list of diagnoses, prior procedures, vent settings, medications and allergies around on a flash drive, all are on a word document that can be easily updated at all visits (we have even loaded it up on his communication laptop in a pinch) and his formal medical records are stored elsewhere.

[OldLincoln]

Now, I don't imagine you want everyone and their granny viewing your medical records so for storage you might want to consider something from these folks:
https://www.ironkey.com/

I was intrigued by this device so I looked into it. It looked good until I read the part that if someone (like ME) enters the wrong password 10 times it deletes all data on the device! I know that's good security but too far up the security/usability curve for me.

Edit: I was looking at the Ironkey Basic. The Ironkey Personal looks terrific and while more expensive than a normal USB drive is reasonable at $150 for a 4GB version. It's worth a look for those searching.