Imagine for a minute that you are driving one of the late-model, high end cars, and you are far, far from home. Your dashboard light comes on suggesting that you need someone to take a look at the emissions control devices, so you take it to the nearest local dealership. Once there, the technician hooks up a computer junction to a plug under the steering wheel. In a matter of seconds, everything that’s ever been done to that car, along with its “vital signs,” is displayed. All the oil changes, all the filter changes, all the replacement parts, the poorly firing 3rd cylinder before the spark plug change. Everything. Yet, until now, that very same “nationwide” monitoring ability wasn’t available for the most intricate machine on earth; the human body.
Each day, regardless of the time of day or the location on the planet, some hospital, dentist or doctor’s office is creating patient records. From blood pressures to medicines given, from x-rays to tests ordered. Yet, almost unbelievably, there’s been no consumer-oriented way of keeping track of all this data. Worse, there’s been no cohesive manner for one doctor or hospital to see any histories created by earlier doctors and specialists. Most of the software created for the healthcare business revolves around the caregiver and is focused more on billing, insurances, etc. Almost none have been created to give a consumer a timeline-based logarithm of their medical history. But now all that’s changed, and it could not have come a day too soon.
MedeFile International, Inc., which trades under the symbol MDFI, has developed a proprietary membership system for gathering and digitizing medical records so that individuals can have a secure and comprehensive record of all of their medical visits. Regardless of the records’ form, they digitize them, index them, encrypt them and put them into the “MedeVault”, a highly secure, encrypted and confidential digital storage repository which is the heart of the MedeFile System. Those records then become instantly accessible to the member. But that’s just the technical side of it. It’s the functionality that makes this so stunning.
Members may access their records online, then have them sent anywhere they please or download them to their “MedeDrive,” a patent-pending, USB device that members can use to carry their medical records with them at all times. Access to the information within a member’s account is determined solely by them — they may grant or rescind access to anyone they wish, or keep it entirely to themselves. With this system, the possibilities are virtually endless. Rounding out the MedeVault and the MedeDrive is the MedeMobile. This technology enables the user to access, fax, and distribute their medical information from anywhere at any time, simply by using an Internet-capable cell phone or PDA device.
If our cars are able to tell mechanics what’s been done to them no matter where the car travels, it stands to reason that we should have the same capability, and now we do. As the population becomes more and more aware of the need to take more control of their own healthcare, the demand for such an asset to personal healthcare will grow, and MedeFile stands ready to meet the demand. This is truly a system whose time has come.
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