Health Record Banks

How might your health record be made available on-line and made secure?

Read Jean’s recent article located at articles at MyHealthMyWorld (link opens a new window).

Let’s say you have just moved across country with your family. Let’s say you’re moving in to your new home and, while performing some minor repair on your house, you cut your thumb badly with a small saw.

So you head to the emergency room or urgent care center. You don’t have your medical records with you – the last thought in your head as blood spurts from your thumb was to hunt down the medical records still packed away in a box in the garage – but your spouse isn’t worried, for she has the “card.”……..

17 October 2006 | Uncategorized | Comments