Modern Medical Technology Today ...
My Hospital System now has a new modernized
system for awhile now, and I don't know about
the availability in other major metro-areas.
But there are options:
1) Notifying your major Law Enforcement Agency
of the County (If Sheriff or Police) - and alerting
them and providing them the info, so in turn they
can put the information on the 9-1-1 database
as well; some of them will even go so far as to
ask info of your Doctors, medications you are
allergic to (major meds), the Hospital you prefer
to be sent to (it's a good idea to discuss this with
your Doctors as far as which Hospital so they would
be in rapport), emergency contact info, etc.
2) You can also go into your Driver's License Office,
whether License or ID - and have that same info
as above, but the State often asks for more specifics.
(In case of the event if you had to be transported to
a Trauma Center or somewhere else, they will have
all this further information on that State database).
3) Hospital System now have new modernized system
whether via: thumb print, palm print and some have
eye (iris) scanners - where your information and every-
thing is already in the system, so in the event if you are
ever unable to respond, unconscious, in coma, or
whatever the case might be - they can get it all in a snap
with no time lost at all!
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I am on all three of the above systems, even though
I do wear a medic alert bracelet and have special cards
in my wallet - and pretty much everyone knows who I
am anyway (and that's embarrassing to me), but there's
been times they've used the scanner to get my records
in a flash - that's how quick and handy it is.
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With this computerized technology, even the Medical
Doctors can put in "orders" to the ER specifically as
well as monitoring you via the computer without even
having to go down to see you and having all the test
results right then and there even if they are in their own
office and provide directions from that standpoint. It
really is amazing that 1 Doctor can handle 9 of their
patients at 5 different Hospitals who are in the ER Dept
for various reasons all at once - right smack at their
computers! So much faster and speedier and the patient
gets the proper care and instructions without the Doctor
having to fly all over the place like crazy! Even if it's 21
patients of his/hers, which could range from an accident
to a fall to whatever it might be - but it might drive the
poor Doctor "nutty"... having to handle 21 patients all
scattered abroad like that.
The good thing is, the Physician can determine from the
results of who can be discharged or admitted, because
they know the patient, unless the ER Doctor finds some-
thing else on top of it and admission is necessary, so
these computerized systems are truly a big blessing than
the phone ringing off the hook and having all these things
read to them.
Because many Physicians now have Patients Charts also on
computers, they are able to pull up their Patients up on the
computers and *Presto-Bango* - So and So is right there!
And they can be evaluated and monitored right there and
so much more.
I encourage you to be involved if it's all available in your
area, even if only part of it is available - get in, and get
recorded ... for one day, it can save your own life!
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