Most people do not carry medical records when they leave home. They do not realize that in an emergency, which no one can predict, these medical records can make a big difference. In fact, they could save a life. Previous medications, history of allergy to medications, and other significant medical or surgical history can help a physician to optimize treatment.
I have had first hand experience with very sick individuals who had no records immediately available of previous medications or treatments. Since these patients were from a foreign country, language and culture barriers added to the difficulty in retrieving information about previous medical histories.It then occurred to me that there must be some “easy way” that could be used to retrieve the information and it is known as electronic medical records.
Despite the presence of more than 200 vendors of Personal health record products in the market today,yet none of them have been successful in making an impact on the consumer.We decided to adopt Graphical user friendly interface to enable consumers to utilize health record information storage system.We want to start managing the health of an individual in wellness and not just when they become a patient.
World wide, economic burden of health care are escalating, the cost of delivery of health care out weighs the resources allocated to health care. To improve effectiveness of economic resources in area of health care, there is a need for fundamental changes in health care industry, although these changes cannot be done dramatically over the period of few years, but may require a few decades.
I began to wonder what could be used as a “short term solution” in the mean time. In an age where computer memory, i.e. USB flash drives, are cheap, durable, and portable, would it make more sense for patients to carry a copy of their own records rather than wait years for health care providers to catch up?The Short term solution to this ever rising problem is the introduction of a computerized personal health record in a portable and digital format. This would enable individuals to have medical records with them at all times.
Adopting technologies in health care is one of the mechanisms for change as it will significantly reduce the cost and improve the effectiveness of health care delivery. Over prescription of medications, duplication of tests and lack of sharing of medical information among health care service providers has resulted in increased cost of health care in current era.
We wanted to provide solutions to these vital issues, so we decided to set up the project of Medicine is Digital, which enables us to create a new concept of personal health record application ,which is user friendly to consumers ,physicians and to hospitals, but also provide optimum point of care health management.
Our goal is to develop and design innovative medical technologies that allow physicians to perform more efficient, accurate, ameliorative procedures that improve patient outcomes. We plan a paradigm shift to what we call Constructive Medicine™ by utilizing Technologies for Life.
MedicDrive was conceptualized by physicians and developed by technologists with help of patients.
