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Transcript:
"Go Anywhere Medicine"
Date:
July 31, 199
Time:
6:00-6:30 PM
Station:
Warner Brothers TV (Channel 20)
Location:
San Francisco
Program:
Tech Now
Scott
Budman, Anchor:
The
next time you leave home, you may want to take along one of
these. It's just a piece of plastic, but as Tech Now's Scott
McGrew shows us, with this, doctors know a whole lot about
you.
Scott
McGrew reporting:
The
trouble with emergencies and accidents is they're not planned.
For the hundreds of thousands of people who visit the ER every
year, there are many cases where the patient cannot talk to
the doctor. This could do the talking for you: a small credit
card-sized pass key that gives the ER doctor access to your
medical records from anywhere in the world loggin on the Internet.
Dr.
Stephen Ruoss, M.D.:
Often
times we're working with very minimal or incomplete information.
And this allows any individual patient to assemble and have
for use by any physician a broad variety of medical information
about them that would be tremendously useful, particularly
in important emergency situations.
McGrew:
Hospitals
that don't have Internet access can get your medical records
through an automated fax system, even complex information
like heart EKGs. It's up to you to decide exactly what goes
in your personal Internet medical file. It can be very simple
or very complete, whatever you're comfortable with.
Suresh
Challa (PersonalMD.com):
What
we're doing is providing a central repository for bringing
all your medical information, which today is probably sitting,
you know, somewhere in your house in some drawer or in some
medical office in the doctor's office. So we are helping people
bring all their medical information in one central location.
McGrew:
The service is free. It's called PersonalMD.com. And that's
also the address for the Web site. Scott, you can even designate
some emergency contacts and the service will call them to
let your friends and family know you're in the emergency room.
Budman:
In other words, don't leave home without it. Thank you very
much, Scott.
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